(11 hours ago)samhain Wrote: Much as I dislike him, he's never been known for making shit up.

(11 hours ago)pulses Wrote: Not much of a fan of Rapien myself but yeah he's not gonna make shit up like that.

I find Rapien to be the best of the beat reporters by far. He’s a breath of fresh air compared to Kelsey Conway, Ben Baby, etc.

I think he does an excellent job on Locked On with Jake Liscow, too.

(11 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I find Rapien to be the best of the beat reporters by far. He’s a breath of fresh air compared to Kelsey Conway, Ben Baby, etc.

I think he does an excellent job on Locked On with Jake Liscow, too.

He's fine.  He tries kind of hard sometimes.  Liscow is pretty solid.  I personally like Malik Wright.  

An aside: I prefer the Locked on Reds guys to the Locked on Bengals crew, and it's entirely because of Rapien.

(11 hours ago)samhain Wrote: He's fine.  He tries kind of hard sometimes.  Liscow is pretty solid.  I personally like Malik Wright.  

An aside: I prefer the Locked on Reds guys to the Locked on Bengals crew, and it's entirely because of Rapien.

I stopped following Wright at some point. Found his “insider” act a little tiring. He never backed it up with anything substantial.

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1 billion percent.

I don't think he's a bad guy at all, but 2021 had a few, "scoops," from him and stuff and they were half/fully true and he parlayed that into another talking head show, where he brings nothing but his opinion to things.

And where the, "insider," crap stopped outright as well.

And what's the deal with First Star Logistics giving him and others sports shows? Since when is a trucking company (I think? Not sure what they are) all of a sudden trying to get in on the local, sports talking head scene? It always struck me as odd.

(11 hours ago)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: I stopped following Wright at some point. Found his “insider” act a little tiring. He never backed it up with anything substantial.

He's whiffed on some stuff, but I'm a more recent listener.  He was on a winning streak for awhile before I actually followed him.

(11 hours ago)samhain Wrote: They were good at it for awhile.  Whitworth, Levi, Willie, Stacy Andrews.  When Alexander decided he wanted power forwards more than massive OTs, things went to absolute shit.  

Yup we used to crush lineman drafts , even had that year where we had Anthony Collins who was a 5th rd. pick step in and play good at left tackle. Collins then got a big free agent contract from Tampa after that.