Kolchak
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The first four paragraphs from an SFGate article:
A feud between 49ers defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw and longtime Bay Area sportswriter Grant Cohn melted down in spectacular fashion on Tuesday, with Kinlaw confronting Cohn at practice and then berating him later on the writer's livestream.
Cohn, a second-generation team gadfly who now writes about the 49ers for a Sports Illustrated blog, has been deriding Kinlaw as an injury-prone bust since nearly the moment he was drafted in 2020. According to Cohn, Kinlaw stared him down at Niners OTAs in Santa Clara on Tuesday. As Cohn recounted with a huge smile on his face, he responded by asking Kinlaw "Why are you looking at me like that, Javon?"
At that point, Kinlaw apparently decided he had heard enough. Kinlaw allegedly responded by calling him a "bench-ass" N-word and knocking the hat off his head, according to Cohn. AP writer Josh Dubow, who was there, confirmed Cohn's account.
In a video recapping the first confrontation with Kinlaw, Cohn freely admitted that he's said a "hundred negative things" about Kinlaw, including saying he has an "80-year-old knee." But when Kinlaw appeared on his stream hours later, Cohn pretended not to know why the player was mad. This is the difference between Cohn and the truly Jim Rome-grade trolls: He couldn't keep his story straight.
Pat McAfee's take:
Mike Florio's take on Pro Football Talk:
I'm not going to spend much time on this, other than to say it's obvious that the reporter is utilizing his access to troll one specific player in a deliberate effort to provoke the kind of reaction that will elevate the reporter. I've watched the videos. It's painfully obvious. It's a get-rich-quick scam by someone who is willing to antagonize players under the guise of "calling it like I see it."
A feud between 49ers defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw and longtime Bay Area sportswriter Grant Cohn melted down in spectacular fashion on Tuesday, with Kinlaw confronting Cohn at practice and then berating him later on the writer's livestream.
Cohn, a second-generation team gadfly who now writes about the 49ers for a Sports Illustrated blog, has been deriding Kinlaw as an injury-prone bust since nearly the moment he was drafted in 2020. According to Cohn, Kinlaw stared him down at Niners OTAs in Santa Clara on Tuesday. As Cohn recounted with a huge smile on his face, he responded by asking Kinlaw "Why are you looking at me like that, Javon?"
At that point, Kinlaw apparently decided he had heard enough. Kinlaw allegedly responded by calling him a "bench-ass" N-word and knocking the hat off his head, according to Cohn. AP writer Josh Dubow, who was there, confirmed Cohn's account.
In a video recapping the first confrontation with Kinlaw, Cohn freely admitted that he's said a "hundred negative things" about Kinlaw, including saying he has an "80-year-old knee." But when Kinlaw appeared on his stream hours later, Cohn pretended not to know why the player was mad. This is the difference between Cohn and the truly Jim Rome-grade trolls: He couldn't keep his story straight.
Pat McAfee's take:
Mike Florio's take on Pro Football Talk:
I'm not going to spend much time on this, other than to say it's obvious that the reporter is utilizing his access to troll one specific player in a deliberate effort to provoke the kind of reaction that will elevate the reporter. I've watched the videos. It's painfully obvious. It's a get-rich-quick scam by someone who is willing to antagonize players under the guise of "calling it like I see it."
