Who's the douchebag here?

[hondo]

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/26308499

Question, Doyel: Why can't you make a case FOR Cam Newton without calling anyone daring to take the opposite stance a "douchebag?" You insulted two guys by name (Bianchi and Whitley) who are widely respected and well-liked in the industry because you have a difference of opinion with them. Why does everything have to be slash and burn among internet writers and on blogs? Isn't it possible to take a stance, make your case and get your message across without resorting to insults?

 

[Shaggy]

Go to the SportsByBrooks article he links to. They're all named there.

 

[hondo]

You know, I don't care who does or doesn't vote for Cam Newton. I'm not going to call respected sportswriters or good people "douchebags" in print because they vote one way or another. Doyel should have the professional courtesy to do the same and the intellectual capability to make his case without such insults.

 

[Dick Whitman]

How low-rent.

 

[Shaggy]

This is what Gregg Doyel does. He nukes people, sometimes recklessly.

He nuked the general public for falling for the Cam Newton rumors coming out of Mississippi State, which of course, were quickly corroborated and later confirmed by the NCAA.

He nuked fellow sportswriters for wanting open locker rooms in the wake of the Ines Sainz incident, saying that he doesn't need open locker rooms so nobody else should either.

He nuked people for using Twitter once upon a time. Now nobody is more addicted to it than he is.

Columnists have a hard job. It'd be even harder for people like me, because I try to take time to see both sides of it. Gregg Doyel wants none of that. He empties his clip first and asks questions later.

 

[dooley_womack1]

We have a few douchebags here, but I ain't naming.


Oh, that's not what you meant. Never mind.

 

[imjustagirl]

Yeah, this is pretty much his schtick.

He steps out from it every once in a while with a well-reasoned column. But when he does, his troglodyte readers write him and call him a p&ssy. so...why should he?

 

[Colton]

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/26308499

Question, Doyel: Why can't you make a case FOR Cam Newton without calling anyone daring to take the opposite stance a "douchebag?" You insulted two guys by name (Bianchi and Whitley) who are widely respected and well-liked in the industry because you have a difference of opinion with them. Why does everything have to be slash and burn among internet writers and on blogs? Isn't it possible to take a stance, make your case and get your message across without resorting to insults?

He probably is looking for someone else to challenge to a fight.

 

[BYH]

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/26308499

Question, Doyel: Why can't you make a case FOR Cam Newton without calling anyone daring to take the opposite stance a "douchebag?" You insulted two guys by name (Bianchi and Whitley) who are widely respected and well-liked in the industry because you have a difference of opinion with them. Why does everything have to be slash and burn among internet writers and on blogs? Isn't it possible to take a stance, make your case and get your message across without resorting to insults?

Asks the guy who starts a thread titled "Who's the douchebag here?" and calls people here "assholes," among other things.

Thank you for the unintentional laughs, R.A. The day you figure out the meaning of irony will be a sad day for all of us.

 

[spnited]

Gregg Doyel is a douchebag. This is not news.

 

[JackReacher]

I just wish he would have gone more in depth about David Whitley's ballot. Now THAT was an interesting ballot. And by interesting, I mean a new level of "look at me!!!!" stupid.

 

[Azrael]

Doyel TKOs himself, and the coarsening of America continues undefeated.

 

[jlee]

Gregg Doyel is a douchebag. This is not news.

Hey, you can't say those things. Not in Doyel's America.

 

[93Devil]

I posted this on another thread, but they are prepping Newton for the NFL where you get suspended for just as much smoke.

Not saying that either were innocent, but don't ***** about this then applaud the NFL for what happened to Roethlisberger or other NFL players that had a punishment given before the governing body even acted.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

There were also a few sentences in there about how much he likes his fellow Florida graduate columnists. (I think Whitley went to UF, I know Bianchi did.) I'm sure neither will take offense.

A lot of times when there is a situation where a guy is going to run away with an award, people look for any reason not to vote for them. I think this is definitely the case here.

 

[greggdoyel]

Apparently I'm the douchebag. I'll fight you all, Bruce Lee style. Meaning, one at a time please. I can't fight all you douchebags simultaneously

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I still want to see Gregg and Jay Glazer fight (in a ring, in a structured manner).

My money would be on Gregg.

 

[greggdoyel]

No chance, Mizzou. Glazer knows MMA. I just box. He'd kill me, and anyway, I'd rather beat up Hondo. Unless he wears cowboy boots and chews on a blade of grass like the Texan he surely is. Texans scare me.

 

[JackReacher]

Did BYH and Gregggg just become best friends?

 

[mustangj17]

I don't want this to turn into an MMA fight, but if you've have earned the right for a Heisman vote, you've earned the right to vote for whoever you want for whatever reason. I think there is enough scandal around many players, not just Newton - to justify not voting for them.

As I said on another thread, if I had a vote, I wouldn't use it on Newton who stole a laptop, or LaMichael James who also spent time in jail. I'll take the next guy who is also a great player, but has a clean record too.

Who that person is, I don't know. Maybe Kellen Moore.