Yet another use for Twitter was discovered over the weekend: public feuding among television football analysts.
Gamedayr.com reported Monday that a social jousting, or a tweet-down, has emerged between Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com and NBC Sports and Todd McShay, director of college scouting at ESPN.
Florio laid down the gauntlet originally in a post on ProFootballTalk.NBCSports.com, calling out McShay for hypocrisy. McShay originally posted a tweet criticizing agents and other media for pumping up the value college football underclassmen, helping prompt them to leave college early, only to get passed over in the NFL draft.
For those agents/media members selling "2nd contract" to these young men, what say you to the 36 of 98 underclassmen not drafted?
— Todd McShay (@McShay13) May 11, 2014
Florio wrote a scathing reply to McShay.
"Here's one thing they/we should say: You shouldn't have listened to made-for-TV draftniks like Todd McShay when deciding what to do. "McShay and those of his ilk routinely put ideas in the heads of players that have no relevance to what NFL teams actually think. Soon, McShay undoubtedly will unveil his incredibly-too-premature list of the top players for 2015, and he'll include in that list - you guessed it - underclassmen."
As proof, Florio recycled a damning McShay article posted on May 1, 2013, presenting his top 32 prospects for 2014. In it, McShay listed three underclassmen on his list that came out early and eventually went undrafted last weekend.
"The fact that these guys left school early without being drafted isn't entirely the fault of McShay," Florio wrote on his PFT article. "But it's hypocritical, to say the very least, for McShay to chastise those who persuaded players to leave school early in order to put in years of service toward a second NFL contract when McShay is a sizable cog in the machine that ultimately supports the argument that these players should quit playing football for free."
Challenge extended.
McShay decided to respond to Florio on Twitter without directly answering Florio's allegation, as Gamedayr.com reported:
@ProFootballTalk -I struck a nerve, huh? — Todd McShay (@McShay13) May 12, 2014
To which Florio sent another counterpunch on Twitter.
@McShay13 . . . Yes. My hypocrisy nerve. Do you agree you have a role in persuading kids to leave school early?
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) May 12, 2014
McShay has yet to counter, but as of now, the fight seems to be one-sided because McShay did post the article and then blasted other media for promoting underclassmen in a tweet.
Whom do you think has a more compelling argument - NBC's Mike Florio or ESPN's Todd McShay? Comment below or tell us @SportsWN.
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