Practices reports are not bad, or necessarily inaccurate. You just have to keep perspective.

If they tell you a guy beat his man and made a great catch, people get too excited and then feel let down when the guy does nothing in the fall. That same receiver may be a poor blocker, and consistently runs the wrong routes. And the great catch was made while going against the 3rd string corner. And he had two drops earlier in practice. But realistically the catch was legit and he's a freshman and is working hard and developing and will be pretty good in 2 years.

I think the practice reports are great. I think message board posters tend to jump to conclusions or lose perspective.