(12-21-2020, 03:17 AM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(12-20-2020, 09:59 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Your talking about two different things. We can only judge these guys by play on the field. With that, I trust only what I see. Some things like medical and personal issues (i.e. injuries, attitude and work ethic) we are not privy to. In those cases, you have to rely on sources, but you can never only trust one source. You need multiple sources to form an opinion.
On field play and off the field issues are two entirely different things. Surely, you get that? Unless we are part of the organization, we'll never have access to certain information about players, but when it comes to their play, the proof is in what you see for yourself. It's like apples and oranges. You're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It's two different conversations.

Yeah I get that. I'm not the one that chose the words 'anyone' and 'anything' here. Surely you understand those words?

Also, when you say you need multiple sources to form an opinion, another word for that is consensus. Which you said you don't trust. But I know, it's only for certain situations right?

I assume your an adult, I don't know for sure though. For all I know you could be a 13 year old kid. In any case, I'm sorry that the American educational system has failed you. I would assume that by now, you would understand the concept of "context." There is a huge difference between judging a players abilities on the field, which we as fans, are all witness to and judging how a player is personally, off the field, which we are not privy to. On the field play, can be judged by each one of us by watching the games and forming our own opinions based only on what we see with no one else's opinions coming into play. That was what our entire back and forth began with. Now, you are bringing in a player's work ethic and trying to input that into the same situation. 

Obviously, fans are not cognizant to what a player is like off the field. We don't know how much work they put in or how much of a leader they are, because we are not part of the team. Therefore in order to form an opinion, we must rely on multiple sources. This is completely different than forming an opinion of on the field play, which we can witness for ourselves. That is where context comes into play. So, yes, certain situations call for different rules. That's how context works.

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