That’s funny because I am not egotistical at all actually I probably find more issue with myself and have more anxiety than 95% of people, that is my burden though. The fundamental difference between you and I is you seem to be extremely agitated by my posts, you find the need to call me names, comment on my mental health, you make these snide remarks as if you’re so right and I am so wrong, you never acknowledge if you take the wrong position you just continue to spin the circumstances into your favor. I acknowledge when I am wrong, I did so with Blount several times and I have done so with other players all season, I do not claim to be correct about everything and when I am wrong I do not make up excuses or exaggerate injuries to fit my argument I own my bad opinions and learn from them. I do not get mad at you for your opinion either in fact if you take the time to provide something with context I actually read it and try and educate myself with it, you on the other hand shoot my posts down like their deer and you’re a hunter, you don’t even give anything I say a chance you just berate it.
The reality is that as of today 1/13/2014 the belief that Amendola is this great player that is worth nearly $6 million a year is wrong. It was an extremely optimistic belief from the beginning, people felt that because Amendola was white, a similar size, went to the same college and played the same position in a similar manner that he was simply going to be the next Wes Welker, they ignored the fact that Welker entered the league in 2004 and did not play in a game as a wide receiver until 2005, he played in 2005 and 2006 prior to being traded and was only targeted 151 times in his career prior to arriving in New England. Amendola entered the league in 2008 and debuted as a wide receiver in 2009 and played for the Rams for 4 seasons during which he was targeted 293 times nearly double the amount as Welker. Amendola is not this player waiting to breakout like Wes was when he arrived, Wes was coming off his best season as a pro in which he doubled his production over his first year as a receiver. Amendola spent 4 seasons and his production when healthy was similar each year, there was very little improvement, his most receptions and yardage actually took place in 2010. My point is that Amendola is actually a beacon of consistency, since 2010 (4 seasons) Amendola has 3 seasons in which he finished with 689, 666 and 633 receiving yards. If you want to compare Welker to a player it would be Edelman entering this season Julian had only been targeted 108 times in his career and in his first season receiving a large number of reps with the first team he produced a 100+ receptions and 1000+ receiving yards, Amendola has been receiving first team reps since 2010 in the NFL.
If you want to believe that Amendola is going to be the next Welker and his groin is prohibiting it that is fine but don’t give me a hard time and act like I am the one being unreasonable for saying otherwise. You told me he would deliver in the second half and he did not do what you claimed, he is still playing the same way he was in week 6 and the same way he did his entire career in St. Louis why should I believe that 2014 is going to be any different? Are we going to do this all next season if he doesn’t deliver? Are you going to point out my ego, make comments like unreasonable or unbelievable at my posts, comment about my mental health, and call me out in to other users? Is there ever going to be a day that you own the fact that your opinion or position on the matter was not correct? If there is not that is fine but just be honest admit that you do not admit when you make a poor call and you will continue to make excuses and justifications while preaching patience, I can accept that but seriously you and the other 5-6 posters in here who take such issue with my providing an actual assessment on Amendola’s less than outstanding first season need to stop giving me a hard time because I don’t do it to any of you, I will reiterate you and others made these points after week 6 about the groin, etc. knowing that you all still set the expectation that he would excel in the second half of the season and I would be eating crow, this did not happen and therefore my confidence in you and the others that you know what Amendola will do in 2014 is not high. If you had not made the assertion after week 6 I would find validity in your reasons but right now it sounds like you all are reinventing and exaggerating a week 1 groin injury to save face and acting overly confrontational and somewhat rude and offensive in convey your spin. If you said I was wrong after week 6 but I really think 2014 will be different for the following reasons X, Y and Z then that would be something I would be understanding of but this acting like you having been singing the same song just with different dates for 19 weeks it is really stubborn and sort of pathetic.
With that said I am going to say this 1 last time, do not insult me, do not disparage me as a member of this board anymore Ivan, you do not know me from Joe so acting like you do and spewing that to the public is immature and unnecessary I do not ever do it to you, I go out of my way to be polite, several times I have even reached out in PM to try and talk 1on1 you ignored me, I wished you well in PM around the holidays you didn’t even have the decency to muster up the courtesy of a response, the other day you attempted to say I was told to ignore you when I never was and even then I apologized to you through Shm for the confusion and told you I had no issue with you, I have taken an endless approach to try and get along with you more than any other poster on this board and either you’re just not able to get along with people or you’re seeing my kindness as a weakness and thinking its ok to **** on me because I am just some forum member who doesn’t deserve anything better because I don’t think Amendola is going to be the next Wes Welker in 2014.
