New York Jets WR Santonio Holmes asks local media to write positive news about team
It seems last season’s criticism about the way New York Jets performed at the end of the season by the New York media seems to have hit a nerve with wide receiver Santonio Holmes.
Holmes in particular had come in for huge criticism by the media and fans over his performances and public feuding with quarterback Mark Sanchez and other players on the Jets roster.
The indiscipline in the dressing room contributed greatly to the Jets collapse and led them to miss out on the playoffs with a poor 8-8 record.
This year the team is trying to show a more positive picture and the players are getting well together.
Holmes in an interview with the National Football League’s (NFL) official website called on the New York media to write positive news about the team and stay away from the negative stories.
He said:
"If the New York media wants to be a part of our team and wants to continue writing about us, write positive things, stay away from the negative because it doesn’t do anything good for our team that you want to report all the negative things that happen
and that’s all you want to talk to us players about."
Adding further he said:
"We live for one thing and that’s to play football and not to entertain you people in the media."
He continued further and said:
"If you guys want to be, and this is for the New York media, if you guys want to be a part of our team and want to feel so important, be there to support us, not to try to break us down."
The wide receiver has given the ultimatum to the New York media but now he will have to perform to keep the news remaining positive.
New York Jets suffered bad defeats in the final half of 2011 and they will be looking to change things around this year.
It is now up to the big players such as quarterback Mark Sanchez and Holmes to lift the team’s offence and help the franchise back into the playoffs this year.
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