See how mad you're coming off here? Know why? Because your appeal to authority got refuted by someone in a position to do so and you have nothing to back up your position beyond that. So now, here, you're tossing out more logical fallacies.
Oh ********. This is a football forum. I am not familiar with any of these people on the Patriots, I watch them on TV.
This is called a level of familiarity. If you didn't feel even somewhat familiar with the players CURRENTLY on the Pats (since we've now determined that you're not familiar at all with the new draft picks outside of reading about them and YouTube), you wouldn't participate in this forum.
The link I posted is from a guy who writes 100 draft analyses a year for NFL.com. A number of them on Florida teams I'm sure.
His name is Lance Zierlein. Why not send him an email and tell him you know more than he does? I'm sure he'll be entertained.
Who is saying I know more than him on these players as a whole? I certainly have not made that claim. You're merely constructing a straw man here, and a flimsy one at that. What I'm saying is that if you look at any number of draft sites, you'll see different scouting reports in regard to strengths and weaknesses. This is because Brissett's play as a quarterback is in the eye of the beholder. How is the scout judging him? Is he looking at him as a read option quarterback or a pocket passer, for example. As a read option QB, the pick would at least somewhat make sense if the Pats are planning on leaving him there. However, that's not likely the case since the read option is now easily defended at the NFL level. It's also noted that he makes plays with his feet. If you had actually watched Brissett play, instead of relying on a scouting report, you'd know the reasons are because he wasn't protected properly, which lead to a lot of hits and him becoming gun shy in the pocket (also noted in the report) and because he had trouble going through his progression if his first read was covered. From what I saw in multiple seasons of watching him at two different schools, he was a more athletically gifted version of Tebow. You're welcome to try to refute that, but you have zero leg to stand on.
Well, they aren't infallible, but I think I will appeal to the guys with actual successful football experience over the guys in lazyboys, if that's OK with you.
That's fine. But the guys in lazy boys are right more often then you'd care to admit about the draft. To give you the most recent example, the guys in lazyboys were right about the 2014 draft being a pile of crap. The 2015 draft looked no more impressive but we can't fully and finally evaluate that for another season. Remember how guys like you were crowing and appealing to authority about the Hilapio's and Zach Moore's of the 2014 draft? So yes, while they get a lot right, Belichick will be the first to tell you that he screws up. That said, they do get more than their fair share right. I hope that this is the case, as I always do. I have zero issue with being wrong and admitting where I am. But I just don't see it. If they're looking at Brissett as an NFL caliber quarterback, I'd love to know exactly what they saw to make them believe that.
Again, using appeal to authority as a knock is the most absurd thing I've ever heard. When you have a leaky sink do you call a psychiatrist or a plumber?
Take it up with philosophers and critical thinkers. It's a logical fallacy for a reason. Let's expand that ridiculous line of reasoning, shall we? The president of the United States says that intel leads him to believe it would be prudent to nuke Iran or North Korea. Would you stand back and say "well, he's forgotten more on the situation in the Middle East/Asia than I'll ever know so yeah... let's do it!"? Of course not.
By the way, I'd see if I can do it myself before calling the plumber.
By the way, a "claim to authority" fallacy only occurs when the person in question is not an actual authority.
You. / vs/ Bill Belichick, Nick Caserio, Bill Parcells, Charlie Weis, the guy who writes 100 analyses a year for NFL.com. Which side is authoritative?
Of course, but then why don't they have a 100% hit rate? Why do coaches and front office people get fired all the time for personnel mistakes that the fans are right on? Face it, bud, the guy on the lazyboy is right more often than you want to give him credit for.
This is the silly season around here, IMO. Because it's always hilarious when people that watch maybe 1-2 hours a year of college ball yell at the rest of us that watch it every Saturday.
