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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory
Wait a second. This is nothing unique to Frank Reich or the Colts. Bill Belichick is considered the GOAT and he's famous for giving bullshit pressers. They all do.
Beyond the competitive aspect... reporters and fans claim they want honesty but the moment there's an aberration and someone does speak some truth or specifics, about an injury or anything else, people lose their minds. That's why coach-speak is a thing. They don't want to be there, they don't want to talk to these robot reporters.
This is simply the nature of the garbage (sports) media that people ask for. These reporters have been asking the same goddamn questions and getting the same goddamn non-answers forever. If they didn't get special access to practices and stuff like that, they'd be useless.
Every player and coach will tell you the opponent this week is a "great team" and "they do a lot of stuff really well." The coach and GM always makes every single decision "in the best interest of the team." The winning quarterback in the post-game interview is going to tell the lady, "My teammates had my back" and "we believe in each other", and blah, blah, blah.
That's what people eat up.
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It's more that organizations and people don't want to deal w/ the BS from both the news/sports media and social media if they say something considered out of line. Remember how much was made out of Peyton finally saying "Ok, we had protection problems today" after the media was hounding the shit out of him about it after we were upset by the Steelers in the '05 playoffs? And that was before social media was a thing, so it'd be 50x worse today.