It’s June 17 and we’re in one of those awkward spots of the NFL offseason, in the case, between OTAs and training camp, which starts in about six weeks. With those dull moments — which if we’re being honest, does include OTAs, minicamps, practices of all kinds — the media turns to anything that could be spun into a leading story based on events or comments and anything that is an update to a previous leading story.
But the outcome of those stories — the reporting of, the updates on, the speculation on what it will mean as it pertains to actual regular season games — more often than not is nothing more than the hits those stories generated for the media.