SI 49ers beat "reporter" Grant Cohn, who is well known in the SF area for his combative "reporting" style that includes personal attacks, trolling, and demeaning, particularly towards draftees he considers busts. He's spent the last couple seasons going after Javon Kinlaw, whom he did not want the 49ers to draft. Comments about his knees being "80 years old" and admits to saying a "hundred negative things" about Kinlaw in his articles.
It's a shit show.
Apparently Kinlaw got in his face and knocked his hat off at a recent practice. Cohn later live-streamed more trash talking and admitted that his first reaction when Kinlaw got in his face was that he "could retire today. That’s what went through my mind: I’m about to be a multimillionaire thanks to Javon Kinlaw.” Clearly Cohn was trying to bait Kinlaw into something and that he would either get attacked and could sue or he's going to play the controversy up for more attention and clicks.
Later, Kinlaw appeared on Cohn's livestream show and cursed him out excessively and said he was doing it on behalf of the 49ers players. Direct quotes from Kinlaw: “The only reason I’m getting on here and stooping to your level, this low, is because I feel like it’s gotta be done." “Somebody gotta do it and it’s gonna be me. Somebody gotta press you, fam. You like to come on here and bully people on the internet. But when I press up on you in f*cking person, you f*cking shaking like a coward and voice lighter than my f*ckking baby…Your balls shriveled up, little d*ck.....”
Cohn continued to bait Kinlaw and clearly relished his role as a troll. He later mentioned that his "dad wore in the industry" and he learned from his dad, who BTW, equated players who use PEDs to murders, when he covered the 49ers.
49ers players have come out en mass supporting Kinlaw and denouncing their treatment from Cohn, so one positive is he is helping bring the team together.
Kinlaw had a tough upbringing, bouncing between being homeless in DC with his mother and being with his dad, who beat him. Football gave him a path out, but he probably Kinlaw is probably going to get slapped by the NFL on this and he probably didn't address it the most effective way, but Cohn sounds like an absolute piece of shit. He's Jim Rome minus personality, charm, and talent.
It's a shit show.
Apparently Kinlaw got in his face and knocked his hat off at a recent practice. Cohn later live-streamed more trash talking and admitted that his first reaction when Kinlaw got in his face was that he "could retire today. That’s what went through my mind: I’m about to be a multimillionaire thanks to Javon Kinlaw.” Clearly Cohn was trying to bait Kinlaw into something and that he would either get attacked and could sue or he's going to play the controversy up for more attention and clicks.
Later, Kinlaw appeared on Cohn's livestream show and cursed him out excessively and said he was doing it on behalf of the 49ers players. Direct quotes from Kinlaw: “The only reason I’m getting on here and stooping to your level, this low, is because I feel like it’s gotta be done." “Somebody gotta do it and it’s gonna be me. Somebody gotta press you, fam. You like to come on here and bully people on the internet. But when I press up on you in f*cking person, you f*cking shaking like a coward and voice lighter than my f*ckking baby…Your balls shriveled up, little d*ck.....”
Cohn continued to bait Kinlaw and clearly relished his role as a troll. He later mentioned that his "dad wore in the industry" and he learned from his dad, who BTW, equated players who use PEDs to murders, when he covered the 49ers.
49ers players have come out en mass supporting Kinlaw and denouncing their treatment from Cohn, so one positive is he is helping bring the team together.
Kinlaw had a tough upbringing, bouncing between being homeless in DC with his mother and being with his dad, who beat him. Football gave him a path out, but he probably Kinlaw is probably going to get slapped by the NFL on this and he probably didn't address it the most effective way, but Cohn sounds like an absolute piece of shit. He's Jim Rome minus personality, charm, and talent.