Profootball Weekly on Skins chaos: some brutal quotes and a surprise opinion

[akhhorus]

Originally Posted by Oregonian

I would agree that the Wonderlic is not a particularly useful predictor of football performance. It is a type of intelligence test, very similar to an IQ test or an SAT. It does not, however, measure 'football IQ,' common sense, leadership, people skills, etc.

It might be useful if someone developed a football flavored Wonderlic, with questions that went something like," There are 12 minutes left in the 4th quarter and the Redskins are down by 11 points. How many field goals would they need to take the lead?"

Given the way the current Wonderlic is written, however, I would still prefer someone who scored a 40 on the test over someone who scored a 15, all things otherwise being equal.

Thats the problem: if you have to consider everything else, you might as well skip the wonderlic scores since they're basically no correlation between success in the NFL and wonderlic scores.

Originally Posted by Oregonian

Have to differ with you here. I personally get the impression that he is thoughtful, sensitive, relatively diplomatic, but also not particularly bright.

Whenever I've seen him interviewed, especially about the problems with the team, he's been rather insightful. Maybe thats because I'm used to the Southern "aw shucks" snowjob that we do to you Yankees lol.

[Skins7ny]

Originally Posted by 44 goes 50 gut

one problem with the internet is anyone can write anything they want and claim it came from any source they want as long as it remains totally anonymous.

Profootballweekly? the article is writen by "the staff" in their sidebar is an article dated August 4th about Dwayne Bowe becoming a FF elite receiver... and that's just the first thing I looked at.

I often wish more people would consider the source... there's absolutely zero junalistic accountability to that article.

Much as we all like to see Crazy Eyes ripped, there's zero reason to believe that source wasn't 100% fiction meant to drum up some traffic.

Football magazines gon't get more credible than Pro Football Weekly. It has been around for decades and is read by a lot of the important people in the NFL. It breaks stories, and its "the way we hear it" section has an accuracy rate that reflect actual journalism, not just rumor-mongering.

And like it or not, anonymous sourcing has been a staple of reporting as long as there has been reporting, whether it be online, in print or on television. I would much prefer to know who the source is, but I trust PFW's reporting.

Originally Posted by Brokenstriker

Charley Casserly comes immediately to mind

There is little chance it was Casserly. It doesn't sound like him. In the comments that I have heard from him, he has always been very fair and kind to Vinny, especially considering that Vinny got him fired.

Originally Posted by NamVet4

I don't give a tinkers damn who it is! No name, no balls, no credibility!
Another piece of crap by a psuedo sports "news" site....
Toss the BS Flag on this one too!

See above.

[akhhorus]

Originally Posted by Skins7ny

Football magazines gon't get more credible than Pro Football Weekly. It has been around for decades and is read by a lot of the important people in the NFL. It breaks stories, and its "the way we hear it" section has an accuracy rate that reflect actual journalism, not just rumor-mongering.

And like it or not, anonymous sourcing has been a staple of reporting as long as there has been reporting, whether it be online, in print or on television. I would much prefer to know who the source is, but I trust PFW's reporting.

Agreed 100%. As with any reporting, anonymous comments/reporting is part of the business.

[44 goes 50 gut]

Feel free to believe whatever you want

The fact that journalists have been using anonymous sources forever doesn't impress me any more than any other questionable assumption that we all take for granted.

I don't automatically believe the unnamed sources of CREDIBLE well known writers in national media, let alone fishy sounding anonymous sources cited by "staff" of a football website. If there was even a real actual WRITER involved that might move it a couple ticks back from pegging 100% on the BS meter.

IMO Anonymous sources in journalism are often just a pseudonym for "this writers opinion".

[BandWagon]

Originally Posted by akhhorus

The person being quoted loses all credibility when saying that Snyder is a great owner and isn't the problem.

Success and failure start at the top. It's as simple as that.

[AMISHSKINSFAN]

Originally Posted by akhhorus

A washed up personnel man with connections to the Skins, but hates Vinny.

Or someone looking to replace Vinny.