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Jack Edwards is an idiot, part two

From an interview he gave to Puck The Media, discussing his idiocy.

Okay, first of all, everybody has a right to his opinion, and I enjoy strong opinions.  What I don’t respect is people who call names and throw mud and don’t actually follow through and consider what the story really is.  

If you go back and if you listen to the illegally posted, copyrighted material thats on YouTube [we both chuckle] I clearly refer to “the crowd wants a call for a hit from behind”.  That is what was so hilarious.  Because even before we knew that Patrice Bergeron had a broken neck on the 27th of October, 2007.  Even before we knew what the result of the examination was.  While he was still unconscious, the Flyers had issued a public relations release, and the Philadelphia media swallowed it whole, to the point that some columnist in Philadelphia actually wrote that Bergeron knew the hit was coming.  

Funny, but I’ve talked to Patrice Bergeron dozens of times about that incident, and at no point does he say anything about any kind of knowledge that Randy Jones, who was skating straight at Bergeron’s back, who coiled as you can clearly see in the replay, Jones coils as he crosses the goal line and drives Bergeron 90 degrees straight into the dasher, hitting to hurt.  Clearly evident that even the lenient Colin Campbell agreed and suspended Jones for the game.  

The Philadelphia media swallowed the PR spin whole to the point that the Philadelphia fans now, in revisionist history, a lot of them think that hit by Jones was not a significant hit.  That there was no problem with it, and that it was just the circumstance that resulted in Jones’ suspension.  For that crowd to whine and moan after a perfectly legal shoulder-to-shoulder hit, that sent Jones in a non-threatening angle down behind the goal, not face first but sideways into the boards.  For them to whine that there should be a hit from behind, frankly, was hilarious.  Anybody who can’t connect those two dots, and see the humor in the crowd, not at the hit by Lucic but the crowd’s reaction, you’re distorting the story or have no sense of humor.

I'm sorry Jack, but I don't take my shots courtesy of the Flyers PR department.

I was at school in Connecticut, watching that game on your precious NESN last year. I was watching with an appalled Bruins fan who called for the head of Randy Jones as soon as the hit was made. I didn't even read anything from the Philadelphia media about the situation until the day after.

It was a bad hit. It was a dangerous hit. The only thing that Flyers fans have ever said to defend Jones is that "he's not that type of player" and that, perhaps Bergeron put himself in a dangerous position by turning his back at the last second. There is no way that Jones meant to hurt Bergeron. Shit, the guy apologized as soon as the game was over. 

But to have the gall to say that Flyers fans can't complain about a hit from behind on one of their players, simply because that player was guilty of a hit from behind last season, is absolute bullshit. These are the things we're trying to eliminate from our game and there should be no exceptions.

There's nothing hilarious about hits from behind, no matter the severity. You're an idiot.

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Why did he bother with this explanation?

I think he actually makes it worse, if that’s possible. He should have just kept his mouth shut and let it go away.

What Flyers fans are calling for is none of his concern. He should be paying attention TO THE GAME. And can he be absolutely, 100% certain that those same Flyers fans calling for the hit to be penalized are the same ones who he says dismiss the Jones hit? Come on, man. And to think that we can’t discern for ourselves what a good hit and a bad hit is without assistance from the media is pretty ridiculous.

Now here’s the real irony: he’s roasting the media for brainwashing the Philly fans yet what is he doing exactly as a member of the Bruins’ media corps here? Revisionist history is revisionist history, Jack, regardless of who writes it.

by doubleh on Apr 7, 2009 11:55 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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  I’ve been a hockey fan for 30+ years and have watched maybe a million games with a million different broadcast teams reporting on the action.
  Jack Edwards is a clown. I am sure he does little in the way of “prepping” for the opposing team. That is, he comes into each Bruin game knowing little to nothing about the opposition for that night.
  Bergeron would never admit to seeing the hit coming as that would be an admission of error on his part. Watch the video, break it down frame-by-frame and you’ll CLEARLY see Bergeron look directly at Jones.
  Edwards embodies the problem with many broadcasters these days…..SUPPORTER before REPORTER mentality. Only FSN Pittsburgh’s Paul Steigerwald is as bad as Jack Edwards.
  He embarrasses himself whenever expanding his commentary outside of the game in front of him. Sad.

by Skip-O-Matic on Apr 7, 2009 2:47 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

so who has good announcing (non-philly)?

the two crews i enjoyed listening to on center ice were the guys covering the NYI and ottowa.

worst local announcing still goes to pitt and boston. when the local fans complain about their home team announcing, there is a problem.

don’t get me started on nbc.

GARY THORNE WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!

World F#$king Champions

by psudrozz on Apr 7, 2009 3:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The NYI guys are really solid. Howie Rose is one of the best in the business, if you ignore the fact that he does dirty NY Mets radio, too.

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by Travis Hughes on Apr 7, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

that's howie

rose’s evil twin, melvin rose.

please don’t make me confuse the two…..

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by psudrozz on Apr 7, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

i still can't believe

the pens got rid of mike lange.

could you imagine if the flyers rid themselves of gene hart before he retired?

World F#$king Champions

by psudrozz on Apr 7, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It’s like the Phillies getting rid of Harry Kalas.

Well, nobody compares to Harry the K.

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by Travis Hughes on Apr 7, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I like the Red Wings guys that I get up here in Michigan. And I don’t have big problems with the Caps announcers either.

Swing by The Flyer Frequent. You have nothing better to do.

by Ben Rothenberg on Apr 7, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It took me a while...

… to get used to the Flames announcers (Peter Loubardias, Charlie Simmer, John Garrett) but I like them. Loubardias doesn’t get overly excited, nor is he overly wordy. Quite different from my experience growing up with Gene Hart (my all-time favorite), but I’ve grown accustomed to it.

(Flames are my #2 NHL team after the Flyers. If you want to know why, I have 2 reasons: 1985 and 1987.)

Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

by mikefive on Apr 7, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Mine too, but just cause I like them

Swing by The Flyer Frequent. You have nothing better to do.

by Ben Rothenberg on Apr 7, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Commentators

I always like Al Rosen from MSG, he is always solid and not too much of a homer. I also like NYI sad that the team sucks. Also Kings guys are good but Jim Fox can get a lil annoying always droning off all nasally. Just my 2 cents.

by Vilneus2 on Apr 7, 2009 4:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Edit my last post

I forgot to mention I watch all bruins games in Silence (Edwards is the worst) and I agree bring back GARY THORN!!! Hell may he R.I.P Tom Mees was good too.

by Vilneus2 on Apr 7, 2009 4:27 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Edwards makes the asinine assumption that a crowd from a game in 2007 can arbitrarily assemble again at another game 18 months later. Furthermore, Edwards makes an uneducated assumption that this same crowd is a valid sample of the entire Flyers’ fan base, and their actions and opinions represent the entire population of Flyers’ fans. Then, he draws eth conclusion that the fans’ anger at a non call at this game in 2009 stems from the “anger” at a call made in 2007 . Edwards didn’t “connect the dots” where the fans might have been reacting to other calls/non-calls earlier that season. Heck, he skipped the dots where the fans might have been reacting to other calls/non-calls in games earlier that season. So much for the real story – who really threw the mud this time?

by du5 on Apr 7, 2009 4:32 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

No one in Boston likes Edwards

I’m a Flyers fan stuck in the body of a Boston citizen.

From a diehard B’s fan of mine:

He sounds like a high school announcer channeling some WWF guy.
What the hell.
We’re an Original Six City with the best record in hockey at the moment.
Could we not find a good announcer?

by gaboosh on Apr 7, 2009 5:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs


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