Re: Seriously? (Part 2)

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RamUK
You think human psychology is that simple?

Maybe Google confirmation bias, and sunk cost fallacy.

Then get back to me

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zn

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sstrams
..because Fisher will always use the "we drafted Goff and haven't been able to play him yet - lets finish what we started" bs... So, then next year Fisher will have an excuse, "well, Goff didn't have experience and needed to grow into the NFL" thing.... which maybe why he won't play him THIS year - so he'll have that excuse NEXT year..

With all due respect, though, if something is just bs and you can see through it posting on a message board, why wouldn't SK? Who owns other sports teams and has experience hiring and firing.

If Fisher is not fired this year it will be because SK has his own firm reasons for not wanting to. There's no realistic scenario where he sits in his office, gets bs-ed by a coach, and naively goes "okay sounds good." He will have his own mind on the issue either way.

Here;s the problem with that. What we say about SK and JF invariably reflects our own biases. So to claim it's possible that for example SK could have a confirmation bias in relation to Fisher, you have to believe certain things about Fisher. Namely, you have to believe that Fisher is not worth keeping, so that keeping him has to be explained by a bias---ie. if you assume Fisher is bad and that SK could have no rational reason to keep him, then SK keeping him has to be explained in terms of that bias. Which of course could simply be the bias of the person saying that---they are so decidedly against Fisher that their bias is, if SK doesn't fire him, it must be because of SK's bias. Basically it's traps within traps. Infinite regress.

So I left all the mind-reading and net psychology out of it.

Instead I assumed that SK will not be the only owner I ever heard of who let a coach talk him into keeping him when the issue of firing that coach comes up, where basically the coach pulls that off by bs-ing that owner. But then that was said in response to one very specific comment...it wasn't a general observation, it was a response to the idea that JF could bs SK into not firing him (assuming firing was even an issue).

Now that specific statement aside, and moving on to the general observation, I assume that SK will have his own good reasons for acting, whether the action is to fire Fisher OR keep him. I won't have psychology cards ready to challenge whichever decision I happen to like the least, personally.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2016 06:36PM by zn.