Brady Bunch of Bad Reporting

I'm not sure if you're interested, but here's a little Inside the Sportscast issue we dealt with on Saturday night. As we began to prepare the 11pm stories, I saw an Associated Press report about Tom Brady from Patriots minicamp. Heres's what it said:
New England Patriots quarterback Tom
Brady says he is slow and can't jump because of lingering effects of an ankle injury late last season.

Wow. I thought it was pretty important news, that would interest Bills fans. So we put the story in our lineup. About an hour later, I was on nfl.com when I clicked on the Tom Brady story and got a very different take on the condition of Brady's ankle.

New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady joked on Saturday about the lingering effects of his ankle injury from late last season.
“The ankle feels great and I’ve been able to do pretty much everything that I normally do," the NFL's Most Valuable Player told Patriots.com following the second day of the three-day mandatory minicamp.

Well it seems the Associated Press story either left out or misinterpreted the fact that Brady was joking about being slow and not able to jump. I not sure how the AP reporter missed that, but later in the night, the AP story was corrected. I chose not to run the story in our 11pm sports because there was no story. Brady is fine, feels good, and the ankle injury is no longer an issue.

I bring this up in case you saw the uncorrected version that ran in many papers and web sites, and thought that the Bills chances of winning the AFC East got better. Sorry. No luck on that.

(Photo of Tom Brady from the Boston Globe)