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Saguaro
By any objective measure, these two young players are outperforming almost all players of their age and experience. Could we all agree on that?
And by any objective measure, there are a few flaws that can be picked at.
So when people express reservations and dissatisfaction, is it a belief that they have already divined some fatal flaws
Nothing here is a "fatal flaw." In fact I am posing it even as a question (Jemach is maybe more directly assertive). But if it turned out to be real, and an actual pattern, I wouldn't call it "fatal." Just a flaw. If it is real, some say it can be cured with experience, some say it's part of the player's make-up. Either way no one knows. I tend to think of it as part of a guy's inherent mental make-up. I think that's who they are. That doesn't mean the player, or the team, stops improving...all players have flaws and you work around them. Kupp has other things if he doesn't have this.
I can't speak for others, but, I say anything about players that pops into my head. That is, I don't have a theme or a special focus or some kind of measuring stick. I do pay attention to "clutch mojo" in a player, like the qb in 4th quarter comebacks. It;s not systematic on my part and it's just one thing among other things I notice. In that way, I have been a little disappointed that Kupp has had a few anti-clutch moments. As I said it's a question and I don't know if it's a real thing yet or not. I see it, so I bring it up. It's just me throwing 2 cents into conversations which I imagine can go anywhere and ideally contains all kinds of different views.
For me, noticing something like that just simply does not detract from seeing and enjoying positive things, of which we're getting a lot this year. On Kupp, for example, I am noticing his run after the catch ability, it's really far more dynamic than I thought it was. I have noticed Quinn coming on and getting to be closer to what I thought he could be in this defense. And so on.
To me realism means you paint a big picture with a lot of different colors in it, and you can't do it alone, which is why conversation is nice. I never think of an honest critique of this or that player as detracting from enjoying overall success. Similarly when I said positive things about players like Keenum and Goff when the team was losing, I don't think of it as being blind to the general negative reality. It's just part of a conversation where everything can be raised.
But the OVERALL feeling is positive---the team is playing
everyone tough. There are all sorts of indications that in the future, if anything, they will be even better. Just for me, even when losing, I have some positive things to say about certain players who surprise me, and even when winning, I have questions about some players we don't really fully know yet. There's of course also negative things to say when they're losing and positive things to say when they're winning and that all gets said too. For example very early this year I said Goff already IS a franchise qb and that all he needs is some seasoning to become an even better one.
Anyway my thing is not to say negative stuff or positive stuff but to say all stuff, all the time. To me that just means that if all things get talked about with many different people, you get a bigger clearer picture.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2017 08:44PM by zn.
