In this age when anyone living in fantasyland and with a keyboard can create an online feeding frenzy on any subject in pro football…
In a world where scouts will tell you it takes at least eight hours of studying video to get a good handle on a single player, yet columnists far removed from the scene and former players turned talking heads will readily spew judgment on a moment's notice about any of 32 teams and more than 1,600 NFL players…
And with human nature, which arguably never changes, playing its part as well, at least among a certain percentage of fans who only want to hear what they want to hear – presumably to reinforce their own groundless notions – rather than trust the expertise of people inside the game…
The consequence is that axioms and history get drowned out by all the noise.