"Worthless" Steve Breaston

Once upon a time, the very unbiased Kirk Herbstreit, who "works" (spewing idiotic opinions that change by the week is work apparently?) for ESPN, said Steve Breaston is worthless when he was at the University of Michigan.

Kirk is a certified ass. How ABC/ESPN let him ever, ever do OSU games from the broadcast booth is beyond me. I don't blame the guy. That's his school. He played for them, but can SOMEONE PLEASE realize that Herbstreit is biased and that it's OK and understandable. Just keep him off of Ohio State games.

ANYWAYS, his "worthless" comment at the time showed his ignorance and bias towards Michigan's football program. Breaston as an under-classman dropped a ton of balls. He was one of the best kick and punt returners in the country, but as a receiver he dropped balls that my 12 year old nephew would catch. SO, they utilized him less at reciever.

On the topic of Breaston, "Herby" called him worthless on his radio show...His COLUMBUS, OHIO based radio show.

Breaston is Michigan's all-time leading kickoff and punt returner, and has the record for most all-purpose yards in Rose Bowl history. Still....worthless?

Steve Breaston went on to have a phenomenal senior year, both receiving and returning kicks, but, because of the media power that ABSOLUTELY affects NFL scouting opinion (see Mel Kiper's TERRIBLE track record), Breaston was a fifth round draft pick. A lot of that HAD to do with Herbstreit's nationally voiced opinion on Stevey B, especially when you consider that:

An extremely comparable player to Breaston at the time was Ted Ginn, Jr. of THE Ohio Stae Buckeyes. They came into the NFL in the same draft, only, Ginn was the NINTH PICK OVERALL and Breaston went in the fifth round.

Since then, Ginn has become a borderline bust. He'll show a flash once a month or so, but, a ninth pick overall, by now, should have more than 20 catches and no touchdowns in his second year as a pro. And also, he probably shouldn't be removed from his duties returning kicks and punts.

Breaston on the other hand is perhaps the next big thing at wide receiver in the NFL. In his rookie year he had nearly 1,800 return yards, including a game-winning TD return against the Eagles, and this season he is still returning kicks, unlike that other guy.

Only, he's added phenomenal wide receiver play to his resume. He's played behind Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin (add Bryant Robinson to that list last year), so opportunities for playing time have been sparse.

Well, Boldin went down with an injury three four ago, and since then, who is Arizona's leading wide receiver? WELL, what do you know, that worthless kid from Michigan, Steve Breaston.

This isn't about Breaston vs. Ginn (but it could be, Ginn sucks, Breaston is going to be a star), it's about Herbstreit and ESPN's monopoly on idiotic rambling (well, them and Fox News, it's like Pepsi and Coke. They both own a stake in the idiocy monopoly). Just YouTube search Skip Bayless...or better yet, Lou Holtz likening Michigan's head coach, Rich Rodriguez, to Adolf Hitler (I shit you not...but nappy headed ho's was offensive????).

There are tons of examples. How about ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd and his blatant material-theft from Mzone.com? This asshole Cowherd who was caught red-handed by bloggers for his material-theft (or better, plagiarism) offered as half-assed apology. A few months later in a rant against blogs (a lot of the mainstream media are scared to death of blogs), Cowherd got his listeners to shut down a blog (thebiglead.com) by overloading it with traffic.

Bottom line is, their opinions all MEAN NOTHING. They are disposable, no more important than your opinion or mine....but they wield so much power. Cowherd got divorced not long after landing the national ESPN radio gig. It's made him a Megalomaniac and that's why wifey went bye-bye. Chris Berman, Stu Scott -- they're all absolute ego-maniacal assholes who treat people as if they are beneath them.

Just this week ESPN knowingly buried a story that would cast Brett Favre in a negative light. They didn't want to hurt their relationship with the golden boy. Thank God Jay Glazer is the real deal, reported the story (because that is his job as a journalist).

All this, and I didn't even mention Paul Maguire.