Originally posted by jktooley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brightonlinge/2145117759/Watching you try to argue this point is particularly amusing, since the only person who would ever argue that offensive linemen block standing straight up is someone who has absolutely no clue whatsoever about football.
Originally posted by jktooley
notice that no contact has been made along the line yet... further illustrates my point
Originally posted by jktooley
LOL... Watching SportsCenter right now, and Mark Schlereth is talking about Colts vs Saints... When talking about the Colts, one of the first things that he mentioned is the fact that Manning is 6'5" and can throw over the top of the defense... But hey, he was just a pro-bowl offensive lineman... what would he know vs. the profound insight of a fantasy football writer and former high school OT?It is natural for someone as hopelessly ignorant as you clearly are to hang on the words of everyone else in the world. After all, you have no knowledge and you're aware of that, so you're incredibly sensitive about your own complete irrelevance. But to give you some of my background, in my impressionable early 20s I worked under the people who challenged all that "conventional wisdom" bullshit in major league baseball. Teams, announcers, analysts, and fans all insisted that some hitters were "clutch." In fact, you probably don't even know that the concept of "clutch hitting" was disproven thanks to the work of sabermetricians. I'm simply not given to accepting ideas because the general public does. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they aren't; I simply demand to know "why" something is held to be true while you accept it implicitly.
So again:
* It's a fact that offensive linemen do not pass block standing straight up. Therefore the idea that a quarterback needs to be 6'5" to see or throw over the top of them is ludicrous. Yes, being 5'8" would make it damn hard to see or throw over them, but we're not talking about someone who is 5'8".
* There is an irrational prejudice against short quarterbacks in the NFL, just as there once was against black quarterbacks. It kept Doug Flutie out of the league for a decade, but when finally given the chance to prove himself, Flutie did.
* Short QBs have historically succeeded or failed at the NFL level for the same reasons as tall quarterbacks: either they can read defenses and throw accurately or they can't. You couldn't come up with one single example of a quarterback who failed in the NFL because he was short. Not one.
Tooley, you're just not knowledgeable at all about football, as evidenced by the Pike-cannon comment, and you need to learn to play to your strengths. Maybe you should just stay out of all football-related discussions and stick to threads about acne cream or the best music to get over being rejected yet again. I would gladly yield to your expertise in those areas.
