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<blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 893421" data-attributes="member: 12283"><p>Here's an analogy that occurs to me.</p><p></p><p>I spent a long time on this board talking about how Taysom Hill is not an NFL quarterback. I said he's merely a gadget player and (this may shock some people) I did so with some level of snark.</p><p></p><p>Well, the Saints needed a backup QB, and they tapped Hill for the job. He proved me to be wrong, and significantly so. </p><p></p><p>Is he a great QB? No. But was I wrong about him being able to play the position? Absolutely.</p><p></p><p>So if I now went back and nit picked his starts and attempted to show that everything he did was a fluke, that would just be me backfilling a narrative in order to try and prove that I was right, when I was actually wrong. Or if I persisted in saying he would prove me right, given enough time, that would just be me clinging to a narrative because I argued for it so strongly. </p><p></p><p>Well the same goes for the WR issue. There are some posters who predicted the demise of the offense based on the failure of the FO to draft a WR. Is the position a strength of the roster? Absolutely not. But the offense has been elite with the talent in house, and there has been very little evidence that a lack of WR talent has been at fault when the team has lost. </p><p></p><p>But there are still some posters committed to the narrative, who are willing to re-interpret everything that happens through this lens, and who have the same comments week after week no matter what happens. </p><p></p><p>Could the WR position contribute to a loss in the playoffs? Of course. So could any unit on the field, if they don't execute. But there's been no evidence this season that the WR position is any likelier to be the problem than any other position on the field (I'd actually be way more frightened of the 2nd level of the defense blowing a game). People predicting it are doing so based on theory, not evidence. And that's my point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dantés, post: 893421, member: 12283"] Here's an analogy that occurs to me. I spent a long time on this board talking about how Taysom Hill is not an NFL quarterback. I said he's merely a gadget player and (this may shock some people) I did so with some level of snark. Well, the Saints needed a backup QB, and they tapped Hill for the job. He proved me to be wrong, and significantly so. Is he a great QB? No. But was I wrong about him being able to play the position? Absolutely. So if I now went back and nit picked his starts and attempted to show that everything he did was a fluke, that would just be me backfilling a narrative in order to try and prove that I was right, when I was actually wrong. Or if I persisted in saying he would prove me right, given enough time, that would just be me clinging to a narrative because I argued for it so strongly. Well the same goes for the WR issue. There are some posters who predicted the demise of the offense based on the failure of the FO to draft a WR. Is the position a strength of the roster? Absolutely not. But the offense has been elite with the talent in house, and there has been very little evidence that a lack of WR talent has been at fault when the team has lost. But there are still some posters committed to the narrative, who are willing to re-interpret everything that happens through this lens, and who have the same comments week after week no matter what happens. Could the WR position contribute to a loss in the playoffs? Of course. So could any unit on the field, if they don't execute. But there's been no evidence this season that the WR position is any likelier to be the problem than any other position on the field (I'd actually be way more frightened of the 2nd level of the defense blowing a game). People predicting it are doing so based on theory, not evidence. And that's my point. [/QUOTE]
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