I think you can weigh others' opinions and value or dismiss them as you see fit, just do it internally and not publicly. Just because you don't value a certain opinion, doesn't mean that person doesn't have the right to express it. Judge them accordingly, just don't do it on the site. Nothing good comes of that and you end up doing damage to your own credibility.
You have a good reputation as an excellent contributor and great source of knowledge and I would hate to see that ruined by the perception of an elitist attitude.
Don't want to come off as preachy, but that's just my two cents.
Ok. I'm still not certain that I completely understand the "weigh others opinions" statement. If somebody disagrees about a player, I'm going to tend to ask them if they've studied the player's game footage. I just don't see how someone can justify arguing about a player if they have not spent time reviewing the player.
I realize when challenged, that my posts can come across as arrogant. In regards to being preachy, your posts sometimes come across as just screaming/ranting when you don't like what someone is saying. Sturm used stats incorrectly. I didn't make that up. I'll work on not being arrogant if you work on considering that other posters might be correct even when you don't like it.
In regards to sacks, I'll agree that it's not an accurate statistic in terms evaluating blockers. I think it has some meaning if the number is really high or really low, but it's just not accurate down to the +/- 1 level. I think the series by Sturm was better than a number because video was provided to show exactly what happened on all of the Cowboys regular season sacks. They say a picture is worth a thousands words so I guess a 5 second video is worth 150 thousand words (1000 x 30 x 5) or whatever frame rate they are using.
