Someone can know more than I do, and still not know enough, Risen.
Oh trust me. You won't get any argument there.
Or they can know plenty and there's simply not enough information available to make a good decision. Personnel in the NFL comes down to Parcells old 'Whatever you do is wrong. Time is short. Now, choose' dictum. You've only got so many spaces to carry players in, and some of them aren't going to pan out. It's the nature of the business, but it doesn't mean you're behaving rationally by simply ignoring the information that they have at their disposal. Or that you can't look at what they do or do not do with personnel during a season and get some vague sense of what that information might be.
Thanks for the lesson. So you're saying all teams make mistakes in personnel? Which makes it easier than to say, gasp, the Cowboys (Go Cowboys!) make mistakes in personnel.
So then why did you feel the need to mention the team likes him when you were asked what you think of the player?
And you're still missing the actual point. I'm not saying the QB is good because he's still on the roster. All I've said is that all we know about the guy since camp is that the team likes him better than several other rookies they've waived in his place. And that, for a backup QB who's not going to take any snaps this season, that says something about how they have him graded. They might be wrong, but the fact that they have relatively high regard for him as a QB3-level player rather than having low regard for him (and hence they'd likely have cut him when we needed a roster spot for a DL or CB this season), does, in fact, tell you something.
Once again you want to attach his roster spot to a tangible reason for hope. The problem here is that any Cowboys fan who pays attention knows that doesn't mean anything. We've cornered the market on carrying bad players on our roster. Stephen McGee was here for years. What did it mean? Nothing. Brandon Weeden is here now as the backup QB to a guy the team knew was entering the season with serious back issues. He might be the worst QB in the entire league. He's certainly in the running.
Why couldn't you just answer the question asked? What YOU think of the player.
I think the reason is you don't think. You simply rubber stamp everything the team does under the guise of fair and balanced.
And try to bump keyboards with someone who does think and has been and will continue to be far more right than you'll ever be. Because you don't think. The only time you'll be an enlightening read is when the Cowboys are back at the top again. Then all your support will be just and correct.
Of course, it only tells you something if you're willing to admit that our pro scouting department has access to data about the player that you do not. The fact that you won't admit that simple, obvious fact is, of course...absurd.
All teams have pro scouting departments. All teams have had good and bad players on the rosters. None of this has anything to do with the question of what do I think of the player.
See, it simply isn't relevant. Hey Risen Star, what do you think of Dustin Vaughn? Well, the team obviously likes him and our pro scouting department has info on him I don't.
That's weak. That's a fan who doesn't think. That's someone who just wants to support everything the team does. It was a worthless response, if I'm being honest.
Your clarification about Romo and doing it now is also a gem. Anybody *not* in favor of handicapping Romo with someone with significant potential, please, raise your hands. Anybody? That's what I thought.
As I was reading that I imagined our GM and his fat son raising their hands. Because they haven't done it yet. They didn't do it with Aikman. They haven't mentioned the thought with Romo.
It's such a no brainer that the guys you rely on for your opinions haven't figured it out yet.
