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An interesting Article, by Sando, wish I had ESPN insider, if anyone does please post the whole article. But the gist was which of the current QBS are worthy of the #1 pick. Sando asked a GM and a few experts and there were only 7 that made all their lists and RW was one of them.

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/mike-sando/post?id=7978

http://espn.go.com/blog/seattle-seahawk ... -no-1-pick

Sure wish Sando was writing for ESPN out here again.

When Sando was 'out here', he was writing for the Tacoma News Tribune, not ESPN.

I do believe he still lives in the area and specializes for ESPN in issues involving teams from the NFC West.

But I get your point. IMO he was a very, very good writer and an objective voice, not just some homer writer spewing the company line.

RiverDog wrote:When Sando was 'out here', he was writing for the Tacoma News Tribune, not ESPN.

I do believe he still lives in the area and specializes for ESPN in issues involving teams from the NFC West.

But I get your point. IMO he was a very, very good writer and an objective voice, not just some homer writer spewing the company line.

No, he had the NFC West blog for his first few years with ESPN but now has moved to being one of the national guys. The blogs now seem to be just "ESPN Staff" instead of assigned to a single guy. The ESPN reporter for the Seahawks is Terry Blount now.

c_hawkbob wrote:

RiverDog wrote:When Sando was 'out here', he was writing for the Tacoma News Tribune, not ESPN.

I do believe he still lives in the area and specializes for ESPN in issues involving teams from the NFC West.

But I get your point. IMO he was a very, very good writer and an objective voice, not just some homer writer spewing the company line.

No, he had the NFC West blog for his first few years with ESPN but now has moved to being one of the national guys. The blogs now seem to be just "ESPN Staff" instead of assigned to a single guy. The ESPN reporter for the Seahawks is Terry Blount now.

Sando was by far the best divisional blogger ESPN had, which is why he is behind a paywall for their NFL nation stuff now. When he was writing about the NFC West it was always good, even his stuff about other teams. I can't stand Blount, who is writing for the Hawks at ESPN now. I am sure he has an article quota but he doesn't write nearly as many as Sando did and the articles he writes are crap. Sando was the man and now you have to pay to read his stuff, which I unfortunately can't do.

Yes, Sando is top drawer.

I believe ESPN kicked him up a notch, and I think he and his family moved out of the area recently... but not to Bristol.

In the ether of the NFL media and analysis, no city can match Tacoma's Trifecta in the hierarchy: Clayton, Sando, and Rang.

And Dave Boling is reigning local beat and feature writer of your Seattle Seahawks.

I do not believe Art Thiel has moved to Tacoma, but he is Seattle's only hope in this matter.

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Bird Droppings wrote:Yes, Sando is top drawer.

I believe ESPN kicked him up a notch, and I think he and his family moved out of the area recently... but not to Bristol.

In the ether of the NFL media and analysis, no city can match Tacoma's Trifecta in the hierarchy: Clayton, Sando, and Rang.

And Dave Boling is reigning local beat and feature writer of your Seattle Seahawks.

I do not believe Art Thiel has moved to Tacoma, but he is Seattle's only hope in this matter.

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Boling and Thiel have been around for decades. I like both, although Thiel more for his sense of humor than his reporting quality. The guy I didn't care much for was Clare Farnsworth, who should publish his works under the pen name of Rosie Scenario.