Seems kind of odd to be that nit-picky, I know it is my opinion only, and I can't read people's minds, I never claimed it to be any more than that. And if I flip my s**t over you calling me a worry-wart, I'll buy you a round. I'm not upset, you seemed to have made this into a huge deal, though, which I can't really understand why. You're conflating Dick Justice claiming to know about Nnamdi Asomugah's feelings towards the Texans (something that we have zero evidence for, past track record to go on, or other reason to believe), vs. me making a judgment based on statements placed in front of my face and several years worth of history between posters and I. It's not really the same thing, and for you to go all high horse on me over an obvious statement of opinion which I openly put out there as an assumption, which was incredibly mild, just blows my mind. If you want to jump on somebody's ass, the dude who pegged everybody against the Nnamdi signing as "wanting us to lose" would be a worthy target. But it ain't worth it, dude. Aggressive, timid, or otherwise.
see my edits above. That's the part that a lot of us are concerned about. Agree with this. Nmadi would be great, but if we signed either one of those guys instead, I'd still consider it a successful offseason. No doubt about it. Look, I'm pumped for this season too, just like I've been for every other season (even though you probably could never guess that from my posts). But until that season starts, all we have to talk about is last year's dog turd of a season. The Texans are just going to have to prove their detractors wrong (for a change) if they want them to jump on board their bandwagon.
Actually, I pointed it out to him first. Sorry if it felt like I was jumping anyone's proverbial ass, just pointing it out. I have a bad habit of discussing something as long as someone seems willing to discuss it, even if it's absolutely trivial. That's fair. Go Texans.
Not sure if posted... http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/...ree-agent-isn-t-interested-in-?urn=nfl-355064 Don't waste our time with him. Get Taylor or Joseph in a Texans uni..
Their source for that info comes from this link (aka: Richard Justice): http://blog.chron.com/sportsjustice/2011/05/ill-forgive-the-texans-for-not-drafting-vince-young-if-they-go-sign-nnamdi-asomughaif/
What a disgrace. I stopped reading after "I’ll forgive the Texans for not drafting Vince Young if they go sign Nnamdi AsomughaIf".
This is exhibit A why my opinion and Richard Justice's speculation don't require the same amount of policing, msn.
I assumed when Justice said Asmough has no interest in the Texans, it meant the Texans are 100% going to sign him.... am I missing something?
It should have been "I’ll forgive the Texans for not signing Dunta Robinson if they go sign Nnamdi Asomugha". They offered Dunta 23 million, not offering Namdi upwards of 35 million guaranteed is crazy.
so because Justice has a wider sphere of influence, it's ok to hold him to higher standard's than yourself? but the whole "high road" thing is beside my point. I respect your opinion, and of course your right to air it. The post I pointed out originally, before you interjected, was the "Excluded Middle" logical fallacy (or "False Dichotomy"). The false dichotomy line of reasoning generally comes from folks who are too married to their own ideology or opinion to admit (or be aware) that there are alternatives. Your assertion that someone is a "worry wart" may indeed be accurate, but it wouldn't be why his argument is correct or incorrect (ad hominem). Discuss the argument, not the arguer. Again, I'm not emotionally invested in this (and I didn't say you were), just pointing it out. Sorry it generated such a poop storm.
Without a doubt. Plus there's that whole apples to oranges issue with me basing my statement on 1) posts already made here and 2) years of history with the posters who made said posts... and then we have Dick, whom we've never known to know anything "insider" about the NFL, and Nnamdi's reputation for not airing things publicly... and you can see how these two things aren't really the same. I think I could have probably completely disarmed this whole thing if I had said "posters X and Y seem timid/overthinking/worrying too much", because for all intents and purposes, that's who both mine and TheRealist137 were addressing (at least in my eyes that's who it was aimed at). Anyway, not starting this up again. Just thought I'd point out how silly it is that Justice's little rumormill is already being thrown about as fact in other places. Oh internet, your echo chambers of lies and half truths knows no bounds.
how the hell did I have an apostrophe in "standards"?? yes, the two situations aren't entirely comparable. Understood. I'm guessing you didn't quote the rest of my post because you're not interested in discussing it. (But that's only a guess, I don't know that any more than I know tomorrow's lotto numbers. HA!) Go Texans! Maybe they get this thing resolved in time to start play in week 6, that way we can finish 5-7.
I figure quoting all of that just to put "ok" underneath it was a little overkill, but yes, I agree. :grin:
For a while I wanted to be the last print journalist alive. I even have an associates degree in journalism (which entitles you to 1/2 off the study of conversational Latin, the Basic Computer language and other dead fields and 20 percent off admission to the Hunter S. Thompson fantasy camp). Basically you have 2 guys per city throwing crap at a wall and 100 guys online even at "prestigious" sports info sites treating whatever the local guys just made up out of whole cloth as the gospel truth.
A superstar DB is a perfect fit anywhere. Hell, he could probably guard pg's in the NBA for that matter.
Yeah this is the major problem. Most actual news right now is still being produced by actual newspapers then repeated on 100 blogs and online sites. The internet is not really creating it's own news content.
yep, see the chron.com "sports" section which should just be changed to acouple****tysportswritersandbleacherreport.com at this point.
Link: http://www.foxsportshouston.com/05/22/11/Johnson-recruiting-free-agent-Asomugha/landing_texans.html?blockID=527052&feedID=3714
