It's just that it's summertime, life intervenes, and while we love the board, there not much that's new and exciting until camp.
Besides, we're a sophisticated enough group that more superficial click bait doesn't excite or interest us too much.
I've posted in the past that I'd like to see more off-season human interest stories about players, coaches, team management. I've challenged writers to get off their task chairs and shut down their internet connections, wear out some shoe leather and go out and talk to people!
Cooper Kupp had a recent addition to his family. Baby pictures? Stories?
McVay is about to become a father. Gold mine for a writer who could conduct a tasteful, dignified, non-nosey interview. Anybody up for it?
How many draftees are there with how many personal stories of how they got here, and how has life changed since?
Are any players involved in off-season community work?
As fans we like to know our players. We can read planty when one of them goes off the rails - how about stories about those who stay on? We could all use a little uplift, inspiration. Any out there?
As for me, I'm between therapy bouts for my wife who now has a new knee and is outperforming her rehab, with a face that vacillates between a look of determination and a sparkling smile.
Before her surgery I got out on a two-day trip with a best friend, before my coach-caregiver service was scheduled, on a seldom-fished stretch of a trout stream in the upper reaches of our local river. At one point I hooked six good-sized trout on six casts before a storm swept in and put an end to it. Fishing had been slow before then, until I put on my wife's favorite fly. I came home refreshed, my mind and soul reset, ready to give 100% to the darling companion who has given so much more to me.
I could have stayed home and surfed the net, spent more time making comments on the board, but I'm more than glad I didn't.
