***Official Bengals Free Agency Thread***

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(03-31-2021, 03:40 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: LOL. Did I hit a sore spot? Well then, by that measure, if I can't DISAGREE with their opinions then you can't disagree with mine.

They do indeed watch a lot more football than me . . . You are absolutely right about that.  But I watch more Bengals than they do. I don't have to take on a bunch of games, whether I want to watch them or not, try to evaluate every position and have my reports available for all games by Tuesday. It cracks me up when people get all bent out of shape or super hyped on some National sports broadcaster that has way more to cover than one team or sport. 

And I don't like watching sports that are ruled by judges. College Football Rankings, boxing, figure skating, gymnastics, diving and ski jumping. PFF isn't based off of stats, they're based on opinions on what they feel the player should have done on the play. Sometimes coaches tell players to do different things or make adjustments on certain plays and there is no way PFF knows that. If you want to use them as a be all, end all, go for it. Just don't get so pissy when someone questions an opinion that isn't even your own.

The section in red is completely wrong. I already touched on that and even posted the link, more than once. 


The stuff in black is hyperbole and completely wrong.
1. No
2. You can disagree with any opinion all day. It's what message boards were designed for. Disagreeing and dismissing are two completely different things. 
3. No you don't. Unless you watch every single play of ever single game, several times, they watch more Bengals football than a Bengals fan watches Bengals football. You have no idea how many people they have working for them so you don't know if they even have to watch more than one team on any given week.
4. They have an assload of stats and they have an opinion-based grading system that's predicated on a mathmatical equation, just like a QB ranking has. They probably (likely) have more raw statistics than any other sports website out there.
5. I've never, and no one ever should, use them as a "be all, end all". That's just a stupid catchphrase that people throw around when they're being all hyperbolic.
6. Don't flatter yourself.