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Originally Posted by Bl00dyBizkitz
This is my big problem.
The response to evidence being presented about this injury varies from "could you explain it to me like I'm 5?" to "I dont know anything and I'm proud of it!"
But I honestly don't know what I expected from middle to late aged dudes on an online Chiefs board, so I have to blame myself there at some point.
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Which is where I get to the irony of all that.
I mean -- I'm consistent. You can go into that god-awful COVID thread where I argued loudly that being literate and having critical thinking skills is a really good substitute for credentials in some of this stuff.
I hate appeals to authority. Always have. "You think you know more than Burt Valanche!?!?" is the most braindead bullshit take this board has to offer. And it offers it...lots.
Nobody - NOBODY - myself, Crow, Duncan, or anyone else that has come out against this pick, has asserted a
medical opinion. We haven't purported to. We haven't hid the ball there.
It's been...math. It's history. It's been a combination of both.
"Well where'd you get YOUR degree?!?!"
Well shit, I actually have a lot of training in stats and methods. Took several classes on it because I liked the professor. I'm pretty good at extrapolating tables and data. And that's all any of us have done here.
Which is why I keep saying that the only way to directly address these studies is to distinguish them. You have to ignore them because {insert the reason here}.
And MAYBE that's appropriate. Depending on said reason. But "you're not a doctor" isn't a reason. It's an end run.
Maybe there's been advances in this surgery that happened in the last 2 years that don't show up in the data set -- we've acknowledged that. Maybe there's been advances in imaging and diagnostics that give us better insight into the status of the recovery than guys previously had and those allow us to know that he already stands apart from that data set. We've acknowledged that.
And maybe Andy Reid went into that draft hell bent on picking a LT in the 1st round and just blew the data set off. Oddly, none of y'all wanna acknowledge that. The possibility has equal merit and thus far equal substantiation to anything being presented on the other side. Maybe the team hated the draft board and decided that they'd be fine with the 85% chance that this pick amounts to dick because they don't see anything safe enough with the ceiling to justify taking instead.
Maybe. I dunno. Nor does anyone jerking themselves off over the pick.
The issue is that a whole bunch of folks seem to want me to start and/or end a post with "In my opinion" and maybe attach my CV while I'm at it. Why? You know it's my opinion -- I'm typing it. And if you don't know my CV by now...well fellas, I talk a LOT and I've been here for about 2 decades now. Pay attention. I have no inclination to litigate it any time I post a contrary opinion.