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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Which is why it's a little nuts to get so caught up in certain players.
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When you say you'd rather take it up the ass than draft a player, it's more than just a 50/50 miss. You are not only saying that your "expertise" tells you this guy is a chump, but you're also telling us what your degree of certainty is for that. If you just said "I'd rather take a couple of other guys" that's one thing. Saying it the way he said it tells us how certain he was that this guy was a sure bust. Which in turn tells you why some people are working in football evaluating talent and others are sitting in their mom's basement.
I think it's just popular on the internet to bash Big 12 players on defense, so the bandwagon effect comes into play. Someone who reads all over the internet about one topic can fall victim to that.
In my profession this is common too. Without any real expertise you come to think X because you read X on the internet. EVERYONE (on the internet) knows X, X is obvious... but really you are only getting the opinion of people who post on the internet and those who are very loud about it get more attention than they ought to get. So you end up with a skewed opinion - again, lacking anything else to rely on.