Comments on: Redskins say there was no draft-day deal with Steelers

By: siggy00

siggy00 — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:44:30 +0000

So Roethlisberger Hater, and noted Kordell Lover Jim Wexell looks foolish again? Oh go on…..

By: kevinfromphilly

kevinfromphilly — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:11:14 +0000

You’re so wrong Thingamajig – King sucks at Starbucks reviews too.

By: karlpilkington

karlpilkington — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:35:32 +0000

Either Snyder was on the radio or he wasnt. If this turns out that he was not on and did not say these things. Well then Peter King is no better than Mike Wise. He should never be taken seriously again.

By: AlanSaysYo

AlanSaysYo — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:10:32 +0000

In Peter King’s defense, he wasn’t paying attention to what he was writing in this week’s column because he was eating a really, really expensive baguette.

By: lbijake

lbijake — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:01:42 +0000

Pound for pound, Peter King is one of the better pro football writers. Would not try to wrestle a hot dog away from him, or the last slice of pizza.

By: weneedlinemen42

weneedlinemen42 — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:00:35 +0000

Was this the same radio show that Snyder discussed his front office’s desperate attempt to trade up into the top two picks of the draft so they could get Blaine Gabbert?

Hey, why not just go the whole way and start reporting that Snyder’s marriage is in trouble. After all his wife has been seen throwing a jersey at him over dinner. Don’t bother checking the source, I’m sure it is legit.

By: CKL

CKL — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Peter King is NOT a journalist IMO,he’s a glorified highly paid blogger. He has 0 writing skills and doesn’t write with proper sentence structure or grammar so he’s more like a blogger.

All this could have been clarified to begin with if he hadn’t been so eager to “break a story” and had simply reposted that item and noted it was a tweet. I bet if it were true he wouldn’t have clarified that he took it from someone else.

By: swervinmervin

swervinmervin — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:47:24 +0000

Shocker – Peter King back tracking on a story. How is this guy still employed anywhere?

By: edgarpoe2

edgarpoe2 — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:34:30 +0000

It used to be that journalists verified their stories before printing them.. How could King use a tweet for his story without making a few phone calls to back it? Sadly, this seems to be the norm in the media, not the exception.

Shame on you King for not being any better than a run-of-the-mill blogger.

By: fringetastic

fringetastic — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:33:14 +0000

King got PFT’d.

By: baddegg

baddegg — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:44 +0000

Classic!

By: 71jope

71jope — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:08:53 +0000

Wexell is a hack. Among his best work is reporting the hiring of Russ Grimm as Steelers head coach. If Wexell reports it it probably is wrong.

By: holdthemayo123

holdthemayo123 — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:32 +0000

Im pretty sure the lesson here is that twitter is stupid.

By: realitypolice

realitypolice — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:25 +0000

If I ran SI or ESPN, any reporter who based a story off another reporter’s tweets without back checking and finding at least one other credible source would be suspended without pay first offense, fired second offense.

I mean, really. How lazy has sports journalism gotten in this country?

By: Southpaw

Southpaw — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:47:17 +0000

I could swear you set up stuff like this to happen, because when it all comes full circle, it just so happens that a person involved is on that day’s (or the next day’s) PFT Live

By: sneckel23

sneckel23 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:47:11 +0000

Peter King is awful. I don’t believe anything that guy says or writes and moreover don’t care. I stopped reading when I saw “Peter King of SI.com.”

By: ajc85

ajc85 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:45:26 +0000

is there ANY type of BS filter at the PFT offices? I think people compete to see what kind of ridiculous stories they can get you to print. you take all the sport out of it though.

By: redskinsreloaded

redskinsreloaded — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:37:25 +0000

This just in ,Peter King comes out of the closet and admits hes gay. He is also the suger daddy for some young immagrant boys. This information comes straight off a bathroom stall in Detriots airport so its more reliable then an actual column by King himself.

By: ihateannouncers

ihateannouncers — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:34:53 +0000

…”King has since clarified his column to point out that the item was based on a Saturday tweet from Jim Wexell of SteelCityInsider.com…”
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So Peter King uses tweets as his source for news in his MMQB column for SI?? Why does this guy get so much credit for being such a great journalist?? Seems lazy to me.

By: jamaltimore

jamaltimore — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:30:39 +0000

Redskins PR department is about as reliable as a source as Dan snyder is a general manager.

By: dangeralert

dangeralert — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:29:49 +0000

“Daniel Snyder said on Sirius radio over the weekend that the team had a deal in place to send the 16th overall pick to the Steelers for the 16th pick, and other stuff.”

Looks like Mr. Snyder has really turned his draft strategy around. Trying to trade the 16th pick to the Steelers in return for the 16th pick and other stuff? Danny boy, you wily dog, you.

By: tundey

tundey — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:27:57 +0000

So King saw a tweet and analyzed it in his Monday morning column. You read King’s column and decided to repost and also cast aspersions on how much the Redskins like their pick at. Now the whole chain (based on a tweet) is unraveling. Sure you’ve posted a retraction (or sorts) but how many people read your unfounded allegations against the Redskins and took it as a fact. Nice work!

By: radrntn

radrntn — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:27:15 +0000

wow peter king making stuff up, thats a first.

I heard espn is hiring, and seems like you have just what it takes to work there peter.

By: thingamajig

thingamajig — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:24:23 +0000

Peter King is only good at reviewing Starbucks.

By: snnyjcbs

snnyjcbs — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:19:09 +0000

Mike Huff when he was asked on a Radio Program stated that “of course I want to stay with the Raiders” with all the talk of him wanting to go to Dallas bull.

Wow I can be a Sports Reporter Today just by looking over the Internet and using other peoples work to pawn off as my own, lay the Con like I have some inside scoop on the information.

What a shame, 80% of what this King tries and Pawns off is nothing but garbage with little ever being right.

By: geo1113

geo1113 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:18:40 +0000

Who *&^%ing cares!!!!!

By: willycents

willycents — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:17:48 +0000

whoops, sounds like a “stretch” of the truth to me…lol…At least King finally staed his source, and that it was obviously “inaccurate”…lol

By: citizenstrange

citizenstrange — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:17:25 +0000

Of course nothing is ever anybody’s fault.

As much as I love the internet it is killing true, responsible, respectable, trustworthy, journalism.

By: jw731

jw731 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:16:19 +0000

Oh…How quaint…..King just happens to be on your show today, while no other NFL news is relevant……I’m not to assume this isn’t a hit generated pile of dung?……You Guys should go to Vegas, either to count cards or get married…..

By: huskersrock1

huskersrock1 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:14:20 +0000

Snyder is such an idiot.