true and more than that
| March 07, 2018 10:53AM |
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RockRam
We're fans.
We get our info from looking at games.
We sometimes buy data from PFF and other places.
Some of us have played the game in college (I didn't) and so perhaps understand the game better than others of us.
We have NO inside-the-walls intel.
We are unaware, often, of issues that have never been made public (medical or psychological issues, for example). Nuances to contracts that have great effect in a wider context. Taking someone in this draft that is a headscatcher, because the GM is looking to the next draft and thinking that position is going to be very weak next time around.
But in the end ALL of us are merely offering our opinions. None of us are experts. None of us are paid to get it right or have our jobs on the line because of it.
Just like the experts, we'll get some right and some wrong.
Yet no harm in standing firm and advocating passionately for our personal viewpoint as fans. But it's sure refreshing when occasionally someone says: wow, was I ever wrong on that one! Like when I was so wrong about Gurley being overrated.
A lot of issues people debate are never going to be anything BUT value judgments and matters of opinion, so they're can't be a "right answer" or "true view" anyway. It becomes preferences and taste and preconceptions and perceptions. I would give an example but no matter what I picked as an example it would just start a debate.
And some people's perceptions can be very insightful in some areas but then not in others. Then there's things like clashes between different ways of seeing---eg. the "loyalty first" camp v. the "I'm the most objective person since Spock" approach.Sometimes, on some issues, it's kind of difficult to sort out what's actually a fact from what is actually an opinion. I mean things where it's inherently like that.
Plus people can be right for the wrong reasons on some issues (like for example someone predicts a season record but arguably they end up being "right" only because massive injuries changed things).
So what does it get down to.
IMO? That the conversation in itself is the important thing. Reading and contributing to a range of views on any give topic.
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