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Morons vs Geniuses

Mr. Scot

By Mr. Scot,
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Greg Cosell is a very sharp mind, and he also does his homework and does his best to come to conclusions based on somewhat concrete film analysis.

There are a lot of dolts on espn that just spew out the current talking points and that is lazy uninformed journalism.

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Recent post after a tweet by Gil Brandt said Cam Newton could be as successful as Aaron Rodgers in the right situation...

Another post, after Brandt said he doesn't see the Panthers making the Super Bowl this year...

Now to be clear, these two posts were not made by the same person, but they highlight a trend around here of deciding which analysts know what they're talking about based on their most recent opinion of the Panthers.  To be totally frank, an opinion of someone's football knowledge based on whether the last thing they said about the Panthers was positive or not is a weakly formed and poorly thought out opinion, especially when you've previously said the opposite.

So I'm gonna challenge folks to do a little bit of objective analysis.

Tell me which analysts / writers / commentators / whatever you think truly know football and generally give informed, well thought out opinions.

Likewise, tell me which ones are consistently poor and hardly worth listening to.

In both cases, tell me why, and you need to give me something better than whether or not they like the Panthers or their players.

So you tell me: In the world of football media, who are the geniuses and who are the morons?

Geniuses are the ones that recognize that the Panthers and all our players are great.

The morons are everyone else.  

So one day a guy may be a genius, the next he may be a moron.  Then sometimes he may be a genius again.  Just depends on what he is saying about the Panthers at the moment (and my other sports teams)

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Geniuses are the ones that recognize that the Panthers and all our players are great.

The morons are everyone else.  

So one day a guy may be a genius, the next he may be a moron.  Then sometimes he may be a genius again.  Just depends on what he is saying about the Panthers at the moment (and my other sports teams)

Of course.

I think they call this 'The Theismann Effect'.

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Cosell, Brandt, Riddick, Kirwan. 

Off the top of my head, those are the opinions that I will value.  For some reason, I will also look at Brooks' stuff too.

 

Of course I'm forgetting someone, but the rest I can do without.  Dilfer every once in a while has a good viewpoint.

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Geniuses can make a rare stoopid comment, but that doesn't turn them into morons.sad times when someone makes a comment these days and a group of disagree then perseed to destroy the person. Words have always been powerful than weapons, now there nukes.

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The Smart Ones:

Tony Dungy

Howie Long

Tom Jackson

Gil Brandt

Daniel Jeremiah

Rob Rang

Alex Marvez

Greg Cosell

Kevin Weidl

Chris Kroeger

Bill Voth

 

Plus a couple who are good at breaking news, but who don't necessarily engage in all that much analysis.

Aaron Wilson

Ian Rapoport

Jay Glazer

Dianna Russini

 

The Stupid Ones:

Joe Theismann

Terry Bradshaw

Rodney Harrison

Pete Prisco

Dave Dameshek

Marc James

 

FYI: This is most certainly not an exhaustive list.

 

 

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Ross Tucker - Genius

King - Moron

I think Dr Z said it best on when he knew he wanted to be a full time football writer: "When I stepped into the press room at a game for the first time". "Because of the knowledge in the room? ". "No, because I realized noone in the room knew anything about football".

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