Just answer the question...

By now, everyone knows Marshawn Lynch doesn't like talking to the media.
He's made that perfectly clear.
And if it weren't for the fact that talking to reporters is part of being a professional athlete, that would be OK. But it is part of being a professional athlete.
Now a lot of fans who have never been a member of the media will say, "Aw, it doesn't matter. Just let him play the game."
They might even say, "Look, we don't care what he has to say. I just want to see him run the ball."
As a generality, that's false.
I get a report every day in my email listing the top stories on the Telegraph's website, meaning the stories that were visited the most times from various platforms. Some Georgia football story is almost always in the top 15, regardless of the fact that it's been a month since the Dawgs' last game and two months since the last game with real significance that even approaches the same ZIP code of Super Bowl magnitude. It'll be seven months until UGA takes the field again.
So that's an awful lot of people reading stories full of people answering reporters' questions. No game coverage, no previews for actual events.
All that aside, even if Lynch just really doesn't like talking to the media, we all have parts of our jobs we don't like. Nobody sits in high school dreaming of the day they can sit in staff meetings, listening to reports about ad revenue.
(Can't take credit for that thought. I heard it from a caller on the Rich Eisen Show.)
And the same is true of the reporters asking questions at events like Media Day. Sports reporting was something that I really loved doing, but it wasn't because of news conferences. There isn't a whole lot to enjoy about rushing to find a spot among a host of other reporters just to get the same quotes from the same people that every other reporter has.
No, people become sports reporters so they can cover exciting games, get interesting personal interviews and write interesting features. Covering press conferences is just part of the job.
The difference is, the rest of us don't get paid seven-figure salaries in the process, and we can't tell our bosses, "You know why I'm here," and skip the afternoon meeting.
So for our sake, just answer the questions.