Let's make one thing clear, I totally understand a professional athlete finding himself a half dozen fuck's worth of frustrated by someone whose job is essentially to break news prior to the time in which the subject of said news feels comfortable with it being broken. As well sourced as they may be, Ian Rapoport and others in his line of work often find themselves forced into a precarious position of choosing between efficiency and accuracy, as the allure of getting credited is basically the drug by which they are able to survive on 2.5 hours sleep with their work phone invisibly attached to the side of their head. Going from the NFL champs to the NFL chumps might be considered a mildly humiliating demotion, but in most cases I'd be more liable to believe that a player's rant was more so an instinctive reaction to seeing unofficial information being prematurely spread about him than anything else. Unfortunately this isn't one of those cases, for if Mychal Kendricks wanted that to be the consensus amongst fans and (other) media members alike then he needed to do a better job making sure those timely tweets didn't end up being dead-on-balls accurate...
Like, if the ink truly had yet to dry on that allegedly completed contract then he should have started pushing for a second-year option, or considered settling for something in the $2.9 range. It didn't need to be an unrecognizable deal, but it had to be given at least a minor facelift from the one that Ian Rapoport was already proudly parading through Adam Schefter's social (media) circle as his conquest of the week. Theoretically I can see his point, but I simply can't take serious a hissy fit aimed at the increasingly rare reporting of the whole truth. The entire impetus of Mychal Kendricks' argument was basically that the NFL insider for which he had taken explicit umbrage was too correct in his unusually complementary leak about the brightness of his future, and for that I instantly put my defense of him in the past.
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