Re: Obviously, any such QB rankings will be subjective...

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I do think that rankings by players or coaches would likely be far more bias-free than those of media types and certainly fans.

And I will say this. While trying to distinguish between #6 through #12 involves some hair splitting, don’t you think?

I don't agree that as a whole group, "media types" are biased. It just always seems to me that every fan of every team accuses the media of not seeing things THEIR way (as fans). Wonder why.

But even that's a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, pundits as a rule are far more objective than any dedicated fan. It would be an upside down universe if that were NOT the case.

But on the other hand, national pundits (as I frequently say) follow 32 teams and do not know any of them as well as we know the Rams. And that's part of the dynamic. No one watches 256 games a year while also paying equal attention to both sides in each game.

Still, I always resist the idea that "media types" are this homogenous, easily stereotyped "thing." Naw, from my experience, that's just not the case. But again fans always complain about "the media" when they do not hear their own thoughts echoed back to them. Part of the complaint is to over-generalize about what "the media" is.

For example, Charles Robinson is part of "the media." But his tweets from Rams camp had a ton of interesting info and he sure did not display any mythical "prejudice" to the Rams. He came, he saw, he reported. On the other hand I liked it because he was pretty optimistic about the Rams. So who knows. That's my bias though not his.


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2019 05:20AM by zn.