Memorex Morons

Here's a great example of some idjut with excrement-colored glasses scrupulously cherry-picking facts to back up what he already made up his mind about:

Whipple, big deal! Rottenburgers had a cannon arm, touch, couldn't be tackled, had quick feet...ergo Whipple had nothing to do with his success.

Rottenburgers was a ROOKIE. The only ROOKIE quarterback in history to be that good was Dan Marino. (Well, Kyle Orton did pretty well too). Ben went to Pittsburgh clueless about the NFL and OBVIOUSLY needed a teacher.

It's not that this clown can't tell the difference between three year veterans and rookies. It's just that that's inconvenient when your objective is to find some way to bash the credentials of a new hire, and bash the people who hired him--thus bashing the organization you've spent your life campaigning against.

Have you ever tried to watch a game sitting near one of these fools? They find ways to blame the quarterback and reciever both for every interception. And also the coach for calling the play. They make everyone around them miserable. EVERYTHING sucks. There goes all the oxygen and sunshine. Oh god here he comes again.

And this clown is hammering away on the internet, bashing every single move they make.

Let me try to think like this guy. Shouldn't be too hard--I sort of did when I was five or six. When I looked out the window on Xmas Eve and saw Santa's sleigh flying across the moon.

First I need a premise. Hmm...oh I know! Colt mcCoy sucks!

OK but he out-did Wallace, Delhomme, and everybody from last season as a rookie. But fortunately for me, he fell on his face in the last few games. So I need to pretend all the other games don't matter, and focus on the last three. Cooincidentally, it was December, so I get to say that the reason he sucks is that he can't play in bad weather.

But he had a lot of bad weather wins in college. Nevermind that. I'll just hope nobody mentions it. I get away with stuff all the time when people are even dumber than me.

See how it works? It's the scientific method: First, decide what you believe. Next, filter everything you hear and see so that only the stuff that "proves" your point gets through!

Of course, my version is much more sophisticated, since I'm doing it deliberately, and being analytical. Guys who think like this have their analytical minds shut down. That's why when you show them they're wrong, they just dig in and get more insistant (and usually emotional).

Really, Joe Twelve Pack no longer represents them, since he instead changes the subject every time I nail him. That way, he can pretend he wasn't just slammed. These guys tend to just raise their voices and personally insult you.

In re McCoy: Actually Sancez hit his wall, and so did Big Ben. The Stoolers won their playoff games in his rookie season despite Ben, who was putrid in the playoffs.

Grossi might be right about Colt's arm. I don't insult the guy, who sees more film than me and just tells us what he sees. I don't want to hear that stuff, but it might be accurate.

Thing is, Colt's shoulder injury wasn't completely healed, and I have seen him zip some long sideliners etc., so I know that he has the arm, at least sometimes. Further, ex-QB Jim Miller insists that arm strength can be increased. Miller said that he himself had to work on it coming out of college, and he wound up regarded as a very strong arm.

I'd also point out to Tony that Joe Montana did indeed exist. Kosar's arm was shot when he twice reached the AFC Championship. Who was Seattle's QB when they reached the Superbowl?

Anyway, for objective people, the overall picture is much more positive than negative. You just have to ignore the goobers with the crap-colored glasses.