Sal Capaccio - Why so angry?

[Back2Buff]

I don't seek out Sal, really don't have time to listen to lots of audio, but he is usually on the WGR 550 morning show for a half hour, and the guy is so angry and argumentative.  It's a tough listen.  What happened to this guy?  He was always the positive light in a dark cloud when the Bills weren't very good.  He was a guy that I would look for his stuff that he would post when he lived in Florida.  He seems to be getting more condescending and wanting to constantly pick fights with everyone.  Not just the callers, but also the other hosts. 

 

He needs a reset or something, but who would want to listen to someone that like constantly?

 

Is my opinion out of line?  The segment this morning and yesterday were embarrassing for him. 

[Solomon Grundy]

1 minute ago, Back2Buff said:

I don't seek out Sal, really don't have time to listen to lots of audio, but he is usually on the WGR 550 morning show for a half hour, and the guy is so angry and argumentative.  It's a tough listen.  What happened to this guy?  He was always the positive light in a dark cloud when the Bills weren't very good.  He was a guy that I would look for his stuff that he would post when he lived in Florida.  He seems to be getting more condescending and wanting to constantly pick fights with everyone.  Not just the callers, but also the other hosts. 

 

He needs a reset or something, but who would want to listen to someone that like constantly?

 

Is my opinion out of line?  The segment this morning and yesterday were embarrassing for him. 

Gotta stay in the good graces of the organization 😎

[QB Bills]

He's just tired from carrying all that water for Sean McDipsh*t

[Buffalo_Stampede]

He works for the Bills now.

[dorquemada]

Hot Take Radio must be an exhausting career

[PBF81]

Sal's a dope.

 

Total brown-noser.  

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Needs more fibre in his diet?  Angry that he has to carry too much of a load on game day? 🤔

[Fleezoid]

He's probably letting his emotions get the better of him. Like many here, tired of the BS every year. Something's always blowing up the Bills chances. Every freaking year. Half a century of this crap is getting old, frustrating, maddening, infuriating. ........

[BADOLBILZ]

 

He's a shill.   He invests a lot of time in telling fans that they are wrong to quiet the critics of the organization............this helps preserve his job with the team.

 

But when the organization makes a turn that undermines the sales pitch he has to have a response.

 

Perhaps he thinks anger makes it seem like the organization was pushed into making the decision by critics.

 

Either way........as a shill you gotta' take anything he says with a grain.

 

Under the cover of a little bit of time he can just do what he did with Tremaine Edmunds...........talk him up and shout down critics when he was with the team..........then say the same things as the critics did after he left the team.

[BillnutinHouston]

Agree with what's been said above, but also its clear that he's lost a lot of his former humility. 

 

He now likes to "big league" his callers.  Because as we know, since he travels with the team and stands on the sideline during games, he's actually a real part of the NFL, which he refers to all the time as "this league" like the true insider he is.

[GunnerBill]

He has always been a homer. I actually think he does know more about football than any of the other guys on GR, not hard, but he starts every discussion trying to prove the organisation right. I'm still not over "don't worry about not improving the receiving room because we have got 'pass catchers' like James Cook (as a rookie) and OJ Howard (didn't make the team)."

[zow2]

He probably realizes that being too nice on the air is not good radio so he's become edgy and irritable.

[ALLinALLEN]

Sal is miserable. Constantly reminding guests and hosts that he "works for the Bills" and "I'm on the field for games"....cool, dude. I generally like the other WGR hosts but Sal is the worst. Can never be wrong either.

[GunnerBill]

2 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

Under the cover of a little bit of time he can just do what he did with Tremaine Edmunds...........talk him up and shout down critics when he was with the team..........then say the same things as the critics did after he left the team.

 

Haha yep, I noticed that. Weeks 3 and 4 when the team was rolling and people were realising actually Bernard can play (and actually he really can, even in the down turn for the most part he has played well) suddenly he started slipping in this "Edmunds wasn't an impact player and he wasn't a difference maker." When for the last two year especially he'd been a "you just can't see the difference he makes without breaking down the film" guy. 

[GerstAusGosheim]

The minute he starts trashing Sean, he loses all access to the the team. It's self preservation. Same goes for Chris Brown and Tasker. Both Bills employees. Last week Tasker said the Bills would be "punting the season" if they fired Dorsey. Yesterday, he said something had to change.

[Back2Buff]

Just now, ALLinALLEN said:

Sal is miserable. Constantly reminding guests and hosts that he "works for the Bills" and "I'm on the field for games"....cool, dude. I generally like the other WGR hosts but Sal is the worst. Can never be wrong either.

 

Miserable is a good description.  Miserable sports radio gets tiresome.  A reason why Pardon My Take has become the top sports audio out there.  People would rather listen to something easy going, vs some old man literally acting like miserable old man.

1 minute ago, GerstAusGosheim said:

The minute he starts trashing Sean, he loses all access to the the team. It's self preservation. Same goes for Chris Brown and Tasker. Both Bills employees. Last week Tasker said the Bills would be "punting the season" if they fired Dorsey. Yesterday, he said something had to change.

 

It's not about trashing any part of the organization.  It's his tone and attitude that's the issue.  I don't really have an issue with anything he says about the Bills.

 

Today he was treating a caller like a child because the caller said the media needs to do a better job at following up on questions why McDermott doesn't answer the question that was asked.  Sal acted like he was talking to a 10 year old child who was about to get reprimanded.  It was an embarrassing look.

[Bruffalo]

He's clearly a homer, but I think he genuinely believes what he's saying.  It's hard to have objectivity if you're that close to the organization and know the coaches/staff/players as people and not just football personalities. 

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

Maybe the realization that a life long dream of being paid to talk sports isn’t all it was cracked up to be. 

[ALLinALLEN]

5 minutes ago, GerstAusGosheim said:

The minute he starts trashing Sean, he loses all access to the the team. It's self preservation. Same goes for Chris Brown and Tasker. Both Bills employees. Last week Tasker said the Bills would be "punting the season" if they fired Dorsey. Yesterday, he said something had to change.

Chris Brown is a good upgrade from Murph, but he's a HORRIBLE radio show host. Tasker not much better. Both guys just field calls on their show and harass the callers constantly. 

[BuffaloBillyG]

I need to see Sal C and "other Sal (Maiorana)" in a "Grump Off". Be like watching Statler and Waldorf on the old Muppets.