Hobson still spinning the same old crap

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(02-11-2019, 07:27 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Fred-Posting 101

Step 1: Make a random claim that is easily proven wrong by anyone with a tiny bit of research, but present it like gospel.
ie. "Marvin Jones and George Iloka were compensatory picks."

Step 2: When someone points out with facts that you were wrong with said tiny bit of research, ignore it like it never happened and focus on an entirely different argument that was nowhere near your original argument, using extremes are best. Also ignore the points the other person made if they are inconvenient.
ie. "Would you prefer paying Stacy Andrews all of the monies? If you keep X players, you have to get rid of other players. If you do this, you won't get *insert best player here*."

Step 3: When the other side realizes they are being Fred-Posted, they lose interest in pointing out things like... the original point made wasn't that the Bengals should sign ALL of their free agents regardless of the price, but that they shouldn't avoid adding talented players in FA because of trying to Smeagol comp picks... congrats, you have Fred-Posted your way out of embarassment and into ending the conversation.

Step 4: Prepare another easily proven false argument to do it all again.

No matter how you spin it Fred, that list of comp picks is a who’s who of colossal turds. Over 15 years of this “strategy”, and the best player acquired is arguably Landon Collins, Ndukwe, Clinton McDonald, or maybe Phillips if he improves. You couldn’t even make an average Arena League team with all those picks.

The bottom line is playing cheapskate, letting quality contributors walk to hoard comp picks has been a fool’s errand. The goal of any roster building exercise is to build the most competitive roster with the available resources. The Bengals netted zero long term starters with this strategy, unless you squint and count Collins. A few others (Caldwell, McDonald) went on to become functional reserves for other teams. Glasgow has been injured for a majority of his career. Other than that, turds and last year’s rookies. This strategy has been an abject failure.