Thanks for your high quality work. I read with great interest your post-season article detailing the lack of discipline and commitment among some members of the team last year. It helped me understand Ron Wolf's reasoning. Surely you knew about some of these activities during the season. I didn't write this story earlier because I didn't have enough information.
People tend to talk after the fact in pro football.
That's just the way it is in a paranoid industry such as pro football. The job of a beat writer is an intense one each day during the season. Sometimes I push so hard on each story that I'm guilty of not seeing the big picture. Whenever the Packers add someone to the roster we examine his background and write the story. Frankly, it never occurred to me that the club had signed so many undesirables until a few days before I wrote the Jan. 9 column.