(06-07-2019, 11:36 AM)Upper Wrote: Appeal to authority is a very common and often very, very wrong logical fallacy to make.

LOL 

We're determining whether another human's opinions are worthy of one's respect or not.  
It's not a "fallacy."  
It's a judgement call. Unique to each individual.

There's no absolute in respecting one man's opinion over another's.  And there's no concrete outcome. 

"I think this guy  has a better chance of being right than this other guy." 

It's not rocket science. And authority has [BLEEP] all to do with it.

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(06-07-2019, 11:30 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(06-07-2019, 10:42 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Dungy's takes tend to fall a bit higher on the spectrum of credilbility for many fans than random former coaches. 
Myself included. 

ie:  Del Rio's takes on Derek Carr compared to Dungy's on Foles. 
Which would you weigh more?

Thats completely fine, I'm sure you are more a proponent of using a players track record as your evidence vs just taking what he said as gospel though at the time. 

I dunno what Del Rio has said but you'd always take a former coaches thoughts on his player with a big pinch of salt. But also I wouldn't value what either said vs the players track record

I think everyone worthy of debating with here is using on field performance as a primary determination. 

I simply find your casual dismissal of Dungy's take a bit odd. For reasons I've already made clear.

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