Monday, June 4, 2007

He makes John Clayton look like Brad Pitt

Some of you may have caught ESPN's Outside the Lines excellent episode focusing on Michael Vick's connections to the dog fighting community. They pretty much buried Michael Vick with footage and testimony establishing Vick as a whale in dog fighting. The one dissenting voice was from Len Pasquarelli, an ESPN NFL reporters who is getting more and more airtime putting him above pretty much every NFL reporter at the worldwide leader except for John Clayton and Chris Mortenson.

You see, Len
Pasquarelli is based out of Atlanta, and his number one source of information is Michael Vick's agent Joel Segal. Many of his columns sound like he is stumping for agents; in his latest column he complains about the length of rookie deals and basically has an ad for Mike Vanderjagt. He frequently has columns were the only quotes are from a player's agent, expressing the player's difficulty in deciding where to sign because he has so many suitors (like this piece on the still unsigned Chris Brown) or where he expresses disbelief at a lack of suitors (nearly 30,000 hits when searching for jeff george len pasquarelli).

So take any report you read or hear from this guy with a grain of salt, because he is vested in your opinion. You may read his tip sheet, call Doc Walker and ask "Hey, how about that Vanderjagt!" Maybe Dan Snyder hears that, and the next thing you know Vanderjagt is the fifth highest paid kicker in the NFL. Nothing would please Pasquarelli more.

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