Does Peter King watch Bills games?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Peter King. If there was a Mount Everest of sports writers, he would be on it. But he has made some very strange observations on the Bills over the year. 

1) At this time last year King said that the key to the Bills season was how James Hardy would play. When exactly was the last time a rookie wide receiver picked in the 2nd round made an impact on a team? 

2) King then picked Trent Edwards last year as his first quarter MVP of the season. Edwards numbers weren’t even close to being MVP type and played against some crappy competition.

3) King was on WGR this week, and pretty much stated that he didn’t think Jauron should get fired, he did however state that he isn’t around the team on a everyday basis to make a firm choice. That’s a tad obscure and a poor reason to not have a distinctive opinion. 

But the kicker was what he wrote on his SI.com Bills training camp report . He spent a good two paragraphs pleading for the Bills to get the ball into Roscoe Parrish’s hands at least 150 times this year. Does King realize that Parrish has missed 9 games in 4 seasons with the Bills and when he was called upon to start opposite of Evans last year he caught 8 passes in 3 games. I’m tired of the “waiting for Roscoe Parish to break out” talk. He is what he is, a great punt returner. 

But the bigger picture is listening to national pundits talk about your team. Don’t get me wrong King has a very tough job covering all 32 NFL teams, the league happenings, and interviewing 100’s of players. And I don’t mean to single him out, but I’d take what Mark Gaughan says about the Bills more serious than what Peter King thinks of them. It reminds me of the Flutie days during the 1999 season, when the national media loved him and always thought he was the reason the Bills were in contention for the playoffs, when in actuality Flutie struggled during that year and the defense was the one that held the team together. 

I feel that some of the national media experts don’t watch all the games every week and only watch highlights and read the box scores. Nowadays the coverage of NFL Teams has shrunk to just covering big market teams (how many times do we need to see Ed Werner at Valley Ranch?). King and guys like Mort and Clayton may be the kings of the NFL media, but when it comes to overseeing the the smaller colonies in the country, I’d rather take the mayor (WGR & BTN) then the president as my leader. 

-Joe-