Anyone know about Practice and the Media

Killer and Swartz got into it a little today. Swartz was pissed because Killer kept pushing about stafford’s availability on sunday and Swartz didn’t want him to write about it. So Swartz has restricted media access to practice to as little as the NFL allows. They now only get to see individual drills and none of the team workout, which sucks because we will be even more in the dark than we are now. I’ll trust Swartz on this one though. We will need every competitive advantage possible to have a shot at the steelers. It looks like it will be culpepper this week. I don’t know the whole story, but if you listen to the podcast on mlive, you’ll have a better understanding of what’s going on.

that the team can restrict portions of practice from the media and the Lions are taking full advantage of that policy. After Killer and Schwartz got into it, the Lions are using their rights to further shorten the time allotted to the media. From what I can gather from listening to BVO and Killer over the years is that the media sees the warm-ups and portions of the early walkthroughs, but all of the full drills and game plan installation is done behind closed doors.

That all makes perfect sense. What if BVO was on the Steeler’s payroll? He could just watch the practice and report what he saw back. Or in a less “corrupt” scenario, the beat writers could simply be saying “when Stafford was practicing, I saw…”. The Steeler’s org. can simply read that and say “well, Stafford’s playing.” I completely understand Schwartz’s mindset of not giving anyone a competitive advantage. He’s from the Bill Belichick school of thought. But then again, I read all the media reports and like to know what’s going on. I’ll give that up for an advantage to win on Sundays, though.