Yeaaaaah, nope. Considering the presumptuous and disingenuous state of click-bait culture, there's not a lot that we won't consider well-deserved when professional athletes point the finger back at the media, but essentially dragging that finger across their neck in the form of a threat definitely isn't one of them. I don't want to make it seem like I don't understand the frustration. The media makes for an easy target to players who are tired of targeting each other, as they are inclined to make too much of training camp dust-ups that are typically just a byproduct of teammates beating the bejesus out of each other throughout the dog days of summer as they blend into one another. That said, I hardly classify videotaping two professionals running around in circles trying to fight each other without pads on after practice to be "too much", just as I hardly classify the dutiful beat reporter doing so to be a mal-practicing member of the media. I mean, we probably asked for one of these outbursts to finally go awry by finding Jalen Ramsey's outspoken antics to be overwhelmingly amusing, but if I were him I'd save the forewarning of impending violence for those that aren't simply leaving exactly what happened open to public interpretation. Unless I am missing something, Phillip Heilman merely did his job objectively, making him far less worthy of the twitter finger crosshairs than those that are going to turn the suspension the Jaguars' contentious corner went out of his way to earn himself into 48 straight hours worth of intentionally combative content. The umbrella under which the term "media" falls nowadays is big enough for every person with a public platform to gain access. Therefore, if you're going to go from throwing shade to raising hell then at least take specific aim at the people making something out of what you perceive to be nothing as opposed to the person who posted that "nothing" as clear and concise context for the suspension it was inevitably disciplined with...
Killing (literally or figuratively, apparently) the messenger isn't going to stop the message from circulating regardless, so maybe it would be wiser to throw shots at the entities that are far more likely to mismanage it.
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