Late June. The one month of the football season where, despite the NFL’s best efforts to trick you into thinking otherwise, there really is NOTHING happening. Nothing.
Sure there were OTAs and meetings and practices in the early part of the month. But late June? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. That is, except the same article written twenty different ways by ten different writers.
Because the non-existence of real news is taboo in today’s 24-hour news cycle, news must be created, whether that means the classic article in response to an article – “Pro Football Focus Ranked Derek Carr 1st overall in most devout quarterbacks!