Here is the thing. A rational person with no agenda considers things in context.
It is easy to find things to gripe about. Tom Brady is the best QB in the NFL but I can find instances of poor play. Why? Because everyone has instances of poor play. I can find instances of poor play in every other QB as well. If I limit my discussion to those instances without recognizing their frequency or severity, I can argue my way into Tom Brady being a bad QB.
It works the same way with decision making. BB has made a tremendous amount of bad decisions. But in context he has made a much lower percentage of bad decisions than anyone else out there. I can argue my way into BB is a bad decision maker. Its as silly as the Brady example.
Most of the posting on this board revolves around judging decisions and discussing expectations, including discussing the expectation of whehter decisions were good or poor.
Rational, fair and balanced thinking would give the doubt to BB until proven otherwise because of his track record. Its foolish to suggest that we have the information available that he does in making a decision. This brings us to the agenda based poster.
Many posters just come here to vent. If they don't like the way things are going they vent, and their agenda tends to be that they would rather aim low and have the team exceed expectations than be set up for a fall. The success of the franchise has exacerbated that.
Then you have posters such as Deus Irae, crippled by narcicism and using their posts to make them feel like they are smart. When the argument fails, it is very simply, you call the other poster a homer, because in one felt swoop you dismiss their point of view as biased.
Of course it is reasonable to question BBs decisions in the proper context because many of them will be wrong. But when it is done to expand an agenda, or done by ignoring context and facts, it ruins the board.
Go ahead and question everything as long as it is backed up with facts and a reasonable argument, and not the ridiculous assumption that a poster can make better football decisions than BB.
If you like to call me a homer, fire away. Because in the BB era I have been more supportive of the decisions, more in agreement with the philosophy and more ready to give benefit of the doubt than most. And that makes me more right than most. If I were a 'homer' in the Rod Rust era, then I would be worried.