Mark Bradley is quickly becoming my favorite punching bag at the AJC. I may have to start doing a Griftdrift-style “Morning Bradley” at this pace. Today, he parrots Jeff Schultz’s asinine comparison (emphasis mine):
The Falcons have lined up to take shots at Petrino, and every one of them is justified. He dishonored a team and a profession. I thought he was a real pro, but he was only pro-Petrino. For all the damage Vick did to this organization, Petrino has done just as much.
Really? A coach taking another job and being somewhat of a douchebag about it is a PR debacle of equal magnitude to the team’s star quarterback murdering and torturing dogs? Just like in Schultz’s column, I think the real source of outrage here is said columnist’s lack of real insight into the inner-workings of the organization was exposed by the move:
Obviously, I was wrong about Michael Vick being a good guy, wrong about Bobby Petrino being a good fit, wrong in the belief that Petrino was actually warming to the NFL. “We need to finish the season and find something to build on,†he said Monday night, and 18 hours later it became known that he wouldn’t be doing either thing.
A lot of people distrusted Petrino from the start. I wasn’t among that number. I’m not going to pretend I knew him well, but I thought I knew a little about his methods and his aspirations. Turns out I knew nothing about anything. He was the first man to the exit.
I really should know better than to take this sort of bait at this point. I guess admitting he was wrong is more than Wooten does, which means maybe he deserves a little more credit. But just stop with the pearl-clutching already! This is not even remotely comparable to what Michael Vick did.
