Jeff Moss story is out...

Submitted by Blue Indy on

Moss' "article" is about the PeruBall game/drill played at Exposure U. There were allegedly some injuries that took place, due to an absence of pads worn by the players, per the game's rules. He's comparing it to Morris' concussion debacle. Personally, the only thing I find "disgusting" about it is this: (If you are a parent of a child who was injured during the Exposure U. camp please contact me at [email protected].)

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Tony Soprano

August 12th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^

It's a football camp where pads are NEVER worn and where these type of games (Harbaugh calls it Peruball, but other camps call them Air Force games, pretty much all 2 hand touch).  

This guy Moss obviously as never participated in a football camp and probably never even played the game of football - ever.   Moss should be embarrased as hell right now. 

 

 

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kawter

August 12th, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^

Is this guy a millennial???

Reading through this fees like it was written in a mad lib generator where you have to see how many dramatic words you can use.

Even if this guy truly is breaking a story where kids were being subjected to danger, comparing a game of freeze tag to the likes of tossing chickens in a chicken factory isn't a way to get your point across.

Poor guy.... All he proven is he's a shitty journalist

 

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MGoCombs

August 12th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^

This is a sad sign of the times. Media always had this itch for what we now call the thirst for clicks but in this day and age you can go viral w/o an editor in a way a newspaper journalist couldn't. Everyone is trying to create the next controversy rather than actually doing a little investigating.



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hailtothevictors08

August 12th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^

He always has been.

However, he has been one of the very best sources for Detroit Sports News since he started doing this crap in 03/04 (I started reading him after he broke the Rick Carlisle firing right before the Larry Brown hire).  Yes, he is mean. Yes, he makes a big deal out of things that aren't (this article). 

But I read him because he is almost always accurate with the information. He is well connected, it is his analysis that is bad. The fact that he is offensive and rude to everyone does not make his info wrong. 

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stormhit

August 12th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^

Moss doesn't have better sources than the local media he is constantly threatening with death, stalking, and harassing. The only thing that makes him different- as merely a lunatic with a blog-- is that he doesn't have to confirm rumors in a responsible way. People always have well sourced accurate information that one person has told them that they reliably know is true, but you can rarely print that kind of tip without more verification. Unless you're just a maniac on the internet who likes to play pretend. He's also far from always right. He doesn't obsess about the times that he's wrong like he obsesses over everything else though.

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rkohnjr

August 12th, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^

Like when he said Gores was selling the Pistons to Ilitch and then threw personal insults at him after he was proven wrong. His source for Michigan football has been Gregg Henson and now he does a podcast with him. The thing about Henson, he gets his insider info from Art Regner (it was Art that had the Brady Hoke story first), but Art will not report stuff until they are 100% confirmed, unlike Moss and Henson. There's a reason why they have been blacklisted from Detroit sports radio.

 

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saveferris

August 12th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^

If you have to conclude your article with this line;

If you are a parent of a child who was injured during the Exposure U. camp please contact me at [email protected]

then youR information is already suspect. Can you imagine if an actual journalist posted something like this in their article? They'd be on the street immediately. "If anyone reading this Watergate story has actually heard any portion of President Nixon's tapes, please contact Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein".

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Geaux_Blue

August 12th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^

Most glaring error:

"Our sources said that after the first day there were several bloody lips, banged-up noses and turf burns."

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"was told that bad weather during the first two days of the camp led to the cancellation of “PeruBall” but that it occurred on the third day."

"so they told the coach that because the first two days were cancelled, a championship on the last day wouldn’t be fair because some groups didn’t have a chance to face-off against each other."

How can there be major injuries on the 'first day' if it only occurred on one day?

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How many days is he claiming injuries took place? Did all injuries take place only during this event? Multiple concussions, a dislocated shoulder, bloody noses, broken vertebrae, etc., all occurred during one day of an end-of-day activity? That doesn't seem to be hard to build as the lead... "15 injuries in 45 minutes of game play - why didn't it get stopped sooner?"

Moss is desperate to make himself heard and is willing to jump on any salacious story in hopes of becoming a name. He's been right in the past because he feeds off of people with axes to grind. Playing a game of telephone with zero facts and then calling someone autistic? This could easily end any sort of sway he had.

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winterblue75

August 12th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^

I do wonder though if Brian is going to respond to the article at all? He has referenced Jeff Moss previously. The Drew Sharp sleeping pic is a tweet from Moss that Brian embedded in the latest Unverified Voracity. Brian did refer to Moss on a few occassions during the coaching search.

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Seth

August 12th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^

We kinda make fun of Moss all the time but like that he usually picks targets who are deserving. Moss likes to be an infuriating dipshit, but when he's an infuriating dipshit toward Valenti or Foster or Sharp it's funny. This article was actually way below his typical standards, which are not very high. I think he saw an opportunity to draw a line in the Harbaugh craze, capitalizing on the same Drew Sharpitude he regularly rips Sharp on.

Seriously nobody takes him seriously.

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Ronnie Kaye

August 12th, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^

He has broken more stuff than you have, Seth. I don't know if he will be able to strengthen his story or not. But he has a guy who on his bio says is a high school football coach from Dearborn and reached out to Moss, saying he could confirm some things. We will see. If he does come out with something more concrete, not one poster here will take back their insults. The insults will probably increase. It's how this board rolls.

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NRK

August 12th, 2015 at 5:49 PM ^

Eh, I doubt it. His "real" career isn't really impacted by anything he does. He'll continue to do what he does, swing at everything and ocassionally hit a HR. The rest of the time we'll complain that his swings look ridiculous. Accept it, and this stuff is a lot easier.


For the record, as long as you're not a media member Moss is actually a pretty nice guy.  I'm not a fan of the way he handles his reporting, but I'm separating that out.

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KRK

August 12th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^

Did anyone else find this article hard to read?

My biggest issue isn't the huge reach he makes in trying to stir up a controversy because I think most people with a bit of intelligence can see through it.  My issue is how poorly written it is.  It reads like an article in a HS paper.  Poor sentence structure and clunky to get through.  I'm not a writer so if I think it sounded poorly written it's usually not because I'm a literary snob.  I'm not going to rehash all the other issues with journalism and sources that are in that article.  I'm just curious if anyone else read that and thought "man, that was tough to get through" based on the writing style.

 

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