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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
We're not far apart in our approaches, actually.
The one thing I'll add is that, for most posters, it's not fair to paint the ballwashing with a broad brush. Most of the regulars, many of whom are very knowledgeable fans, are pro Stafford or Sanchez because it's a position arrived at after careful analysis.
Yeah, there are some bandwagoners, but you seem smart enough to distinguish between the two. Mecca, for all the heat he draws, would not be a part of the bandwagon crowd.
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No, but Mecca has so much invested in his defense of Sanchez that he makes piss poor arguments in order to defend him, even when he doesn't have to. Unfortunately, he gets lumped in the the idiot brigade because they hold his position and drown out any validity in a sea of needless insults. There's nothing wrong with Mecca saying something as basic as "I've seen Sanchez play. I know he's got fewer games under his belt than people would like, but I'm still excited by his talent and I think he's worth the risk.". That's a valid position, whether or not it turns out Sanchez can survive in the NFL at any particular level.
Where he goes off the track is when he starts belittling the lower rounds as if that somehow strengthens the argument for Sanchez. They aren't the same argument because he's trying to insert a specific person into a generalized equation, but he misses that in the grand scheme. It's why he gets so upset when the Brady example is used: Brady completely kills the argument, as does Warner, Montana, etc..., because it takes to the specific player who's not in round 1 and points to success.
Many of the rest of the crowd are just idiots who think calling those who disagree "asshole", "true fan" and the like somehow is a pithy rejoinder worthy of honor. Unfortunately for Mecca, he gets lumped in the generality.