Bengals running back Joe Mixon is boycotting questions from individual reporters

Joe Mixon is boycotting questions from individual reporters (awfulannouncing.com)

 

I've never understood the push to go to a guy like Mixon, or Albert Belle, after they get their knickers in a twist about something stupid.

They don't want to talk? Don't go to him or ask him questions. Ignore him. He has a good or bad game? Let him stew or be happy or whatever and go talk with someone else. There's 50+ other guys to talk with.

Inevitably, someone will continue to try to talk with him and it leads to an altercation. He says "Told y'all I wasn't going to talk and you kept on bothering me." Media people reply "We're just doing our job." It rarely ends well.

He should've done jail time anyway for punching a woman like a cowardly pussy, but Stoops put on his frock and collar as Father Bob to win games.

 

Mixon can talk or not and perhaps has legit issues with some reporters. No big deal. What amuses me is the fans on Twitter who follow reporters in order to get information and perspective on their teams, then root against the reporters when reporters are limited on their ways to gather that information. Not at lot of big thinkers in that group.

 

Joe Mixon -- the Tommy Pham of the NFL.

 

Pham never decked a woman in a bar or shot at someone.

 

Thanks for the dose of perspective, big guy!

 

I am reminded that I liked Steve Carlton more when he didn’t speak to the media.

 

As someone who is more familiar with the situation than anyone, the main things from our perspective in this situation are to:

A) Give him a chance to explain why he's angry, which he has failed to verbalize repeatedly. His agent has been livid at certain aspects of his criminal coverage despite explaining why his prior incidents were relevant to his most recent case.
B) Do the job like a pro and let the work reflect your character.

None of the reporters who were on his naughty list asked him any questions yesterday and everyone went about it like normal. I'm very confident he tried to get others in on the boycott, including some of his closer friends in the locker room, and they ignored him, which was good to see.

 

@jr/shotglass, you seem to have a real dislike for Pham. Did he X your mom or something?

 

I was waiting for that at some point. No, he's just generally a piece of human excrement.

 

We asked to see Joe Mixon.
They said, "He don't speak here."

 

He should be fined for violating the league's media policy and those fines should go to the reporters in question. I'm not entirely serious but I'm not entirely joking.