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NFL Pregame Shows Attempt To Address Josh Brown Situation; Several Analysts Blast League

Fox has the "most watched pregame show" on Sundays, which means it "carries weight," but the program dedicated just 90 seconds to the controversy around Giants K Josh Brown, according to Richard Deitsch of SI.com. After Jay Glazer provided an update on the situation, "Fox NFL Sunday" had "no talk from the panel, no examination of how Giants management handled things, no discussion on whether the NFL is serious about domestic violence, and no woman on the panel." After that opening segment, the show "had moved on." Deitsch: "If you want to know why things will never change on domestic violence in the NFL, you got a small sense of it with Fox’s coverage." Deitsch also broke down how the other Sunday pregame shows covered the Brown story, noting "Fox NFL Kickoff" did run a "four-minute, 37-second segment" on the topic. ESPN’s "NFL Countdown" went to a discussion on Brown "eight minutes into its show," as host Wendi Nix "led a five-minute, 13-second long discussion." ESPN's "Sunday NFL Insiders" had a "four-minute, 30-second segment on Brown," and CBS’s "The NFL Today" had a "five-minute, 40-second segment on Brown including a multiple-minute conversation with its analysts." NFL Network "during its morning coverage ran multiple pieces on Brown ... that totaled a little under nine minutes." NBC's "FNIA" addressed the Brown story via a "two-minute, 44-second conversation between co-host Dan Patrick and insider Mike Florio." Deitsch: "One thing I noticed on all these shows: There was very little discussion of Molly Brown" (SI.com, 10/23). In N.Y., Bob Raissman prior to Sunday's shows wrote the latest developments in the Brown story would "likely be lightly reported and that will be it." To go deeper would mean commenting on another "incompetent NFL investigation into a domestic violence case." It would also mean "criticizing the Giants, who NFL media has always portrayed as a model franchise" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/23).

PEOPLE ARE ANGRY
: In Newark, Joe Giglio notes CBS' Boomer Esiason yesterday on "The NFL Today" "unloaded on Brown" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 10/24). Esiason asked, "Who in the NFL decided to take the six-games suspension part of the policy enacted in December 2014 and reduce that six games to one game? What were the supposed mitigating circumstances? I would like to know what that answer is." CBS’ Bart Scott said, “I'm disappointed in John Mara. To me it's not about what you say, it's what you do, and in 2014 in response to the Ray Rice video he said, ‘There is no place for domestic violence in our sport or in our society and we're committed to doing our part to prevent such heinous acts going forward.’ Fast forward to this week, he said, ‘He certainly admitted to us that he abused his wife in the past.’ What? You make those statements. We could have avoided all of this by John Mara firing or choosing not to re-sign him" ("The NFL Today," CBS, 10/23). ESPN's Tedy Bruschi said, "Right now, I am just numb to the incompetence of the NFL." YAHOO SPORTS' Shalise Manza Young wrote ESPN's Randy Moss "put things squarely on [NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's] shoulders" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 10/23). Moss noted Goodell is "already in a hole," and he "needs to come out and own what's going on." He said the Giants re-signing Brown in the offseason is "another black eye and a smack in the face throughout the whole National Football League.” Moss also said Giants President & CEO John Mara's reasoning for bringing Brown back "sounds like a joke to me" ("Sunday NFL Countdown," ESPN, 10/23).

FORGETTING WHO IS AT FAULT
: The DAILY NEWS' Raissman notes when voices "employed by the league’s network TV partners openly rip" Goodell and Mara, there is "no controlling the damage." Still, while watching "voice after voice ... hammer the league, Mara, and Goodell, there was something missing." So much emphasis was placed on the "suits’ culpability it served as a smokescreen, making it easy to forget the details and depth of Brown’s deviant behavior outlined in those 165 slimy pages the police released last week" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/24). 

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