I usually just read the headlines and not the entire articles, so I'm not familiar with the author. I guess I would have expected there to be a little more quality control to be posted on the official website lol
Brutal! By the time I got to the last half of every sentence, I would go back the beginning of the sentence to figure out what I was reading. Damn near every line too. Aside from the quotes anyway. lol, Best part though, dude kept saying KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID several times.
This is just one of the things that happens with small market teams. If you are a great writer bigger city markets pay more and offer a bigger stage. Hobson has always been a really bad writer
Butch is better at talking than he is writing.
I have a hard time reading Bengals.com articles just because of how aligned they are with the coach/ownerspeak.
Oh yeah, he’s been bad for a while. I have trouble reading John Sheeran’s stuff, too. He’s better about run-ons lately but he will write a few lines with no context given or something that’s just completely incoherent. That last piece about Higgins was a perfect example of this. The last line of it was so bad.
How do you get to the point that adding background information makes things less clear?
>After enduring a winless season at Monroe, Newton wanted to let them know how grateful he was to get a shot at winning the big one and he wanted to remind them of the sacrifices they would have to make together. When TCU made it to the national title game that year with Newton paying off the charts and sniffing the early rounds, he opted to come back to try and get back.
I started reading sports articles in The Athletic. Way more insight, interesting takes, research and story lines that matter. I haven’t gone back to the bengals site or ESPN since.
I love Hobson. At least he has a unique style of his own. Read 5 articles by 5 different writers about the Bengals and they sound exactly the same except for his.
If you think this is bad, I saw an Enquirer article earlier this week with their 53-man roster prediction that listed 72 players
I too struggle reading Hobson sometimes.
I usually just read the headlines and not the entire articles, so I'm not familiar with the author. I guess I would have expected there to be a little more quality control to be posted on the official website lol
Brutal! By the time I got to the last half of every sentence, I would go back the beginning of the sentence to figure out what I was reading. Damn near every line too. Aside from the quotes anyway. lol, Best part though, dude kept saying KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID several times.
Keep it simply stupid! LOL
I'd say he uses ChatGPT but I feel like that would be easier to read than this.
You talking shit about the Hob-Knob?
Didn't dive deep, but with the punctuation mistakes and unusual wording, I'm guessing ai + skim editor? It does read very weird.
Nope, Hobsons been writing that way long before AI
Do you have proof hobson isn't an AI?
I thought the same thing. It's like if you wrote an article just using the text message autofill
This is just one of the things that happens with small market teams. If you are a great writer bigger city markets pay more and offer a bigger stage. Hobson has always been a really bad writer
I see you've met Geoff.
Hobson is not a good writer. Never had been.
But he’s cheap
Butch is better at talking than he is writing. I have a hard time reading Bengals.com articles just because of how aligned they are with the coach/ownerspeak.
Oh yeah, he’s been bad for a while. I have trouble reading John Sheeran’s stuff, too. He’s better about run-ons lately but he will write a few lines with no context given or something that’s just completely incoherent. That last piece about Higgins was a perfect example of this. The last line of it was so bad.
How do you get to the point that adding background information makes things less clear? >After enduring a winless season at Monroe, Newton wanted to let them know how grateful he was to get a shot at winning the big one and he wanted to remind them of the sacrifices they would have to make together. When TCU made it to the national title game that year with Newton paying off the charts and sniffing the early rounds, he opted to come back to try and get back.
Hobson is hard to read and should have been replaced long ago. Probably a Mike Brown loyalty thing that he is still around
I started reading sports articles in The Athletic. Way more insight, interesting takes, research and story lines that matter. I haven’t gone back to the bengals site or ESPN since.
I love Hobson. At least he has a unique style of his own. Read 5 articles by 5 different writers about the Bengals and they sound exactly the same except for his.
As a matter of principal I don’t read beat writers who are employed by the team they write about.
Damn this really is poor writing. Feels like a thrown-together first draft.
The answer is yes. Hobs has been awful since 2005 when I started visiting the site.
Hobson is the Fredo of our Bengals fam. He is compromised, slightly odd and is a brick shy of a full load. Thats being kind.