Sucks for him, but Leinart is yesterdays news (unless you're SMEL, in which case the #7 shrine still exists in his kitchen).
In all seriousness, I'm wondering if this is the end of the road for him. I do see a team bringing him in as the #3 option or at least a tryout in preseason, but he may want to start looking into a real estate license soon.
Given the fraudulent nature of our mortgage market (anything inside MERS is legally destroyed contractually), and the fact it is still in decline (and will be for a very long time...and accelerate downwards), something tells me he won't be much more successful in that job as he was in the NFL.
I feel his only shot now is in Seattle. But if they wanted him they already had a shot at signing with them. Still possible. But I doubt anyone other than Seattle would even attempt to bite. He's looking for a camp invite imo.
Hopefully he finds happiness, I'm just damn sure it won't be in the NFL or real estate.
My gut on ML said he wasn't going to be good, but I suppressed that and was happy on draft night. But my initial viewpoint of him was spot on, he just wasn't NFL capable. Inadequate arm, head, drive, and playing on the college equivalent of the 72 dolphins hid many of those flaws. The arm part and floaters were obvious. The rest again were hiddne.
Even on that gif earlier in the thread, his deep pass was still a floater. It's also not a great representation because he threw it so early...thus the pass looked a lot longer than it really was. Plus as noted 47-7, that being the 7, doesn't mean you are exactly facing a defense that is completely focused.
But overall thesmell, people need to understand that you don't use bogus numbers in a sophistry rating system that means crap. Because such rating systems are CRAP. Don't waste your time, and somehow also fool yourself into believing such a bunk, complete bs metric is worth a grain a salt. You are learning nothing, you are teaching nothing. You are only confusing yourself and others. So your rating system is actually a step backwards, rather than forwards in knowledge.
Such ratings are mostly useless and are always wrong...the question is...how wrong. They are though ALWAYS WRONG. Even the 'best' ones, are ALWAYS wrong. Since people believe in such dogma like this is Afghan and their number system is the Holy Quran, I'll let them in on a little secret. Arranging numbers in a certain way doesn't tell you anything. Statistics are not science. There is no science of statistical discovery that will give you an edge on evaluating talent. That is FANTASY.
They are a waste of time. Plus you are telling the world (those at least that understand you are full of crap) that you believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus...because your and everyone else's 'metric' system is as real as the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. I laugh at people promoting these things as fools too foolish to know they're fools. It's really just sad.
People wonder how our society can be fooled into doing so much that goes against our interests. This is one of the answers. People's strong dogmatic belief that the way they set up their numbers means something. It doesn't. You're just lying to yourself and everyone else. Even if you believe it, what these idiots push, isn't real. Who do you blame when a number is wrong? There is no accountability, just lets re-write the model or weighting. Please. It's still bs no matter how you arrange it. If I want to insert bs into my decision I'll do it the easy way and just flip a coin.
I don't care if anyone has ML as a 90 or 97 or whatever, because your whole approach of grading them is nothing more than complete bs. What I do know is that the people that pushed this bs on all aspects of society got rich doing it. Now we're left to hold the bag. Bad RL consequences, and in this case, idiocy in numbers that tries to show ML is something he isn't. In my best Idiocracy voice....'Statistics...it's got what idiots crave'
Here's the truth, if ML can't get onto a field, above all else, that means he's a 0, because a guy who can't get on the field, or stay on it, is absolutely worthless as a football player. There is no reason to have a 'football' model that caters to the, 'he's a good QB, but injuries are getting in the way'....What? You're only a football player when you are on the field. You can't say someone is a great QB, and everyone is wrong because he is injured too much to prove it. If your not on the field you are not a football player, you're a bystander.
Fake (all of them) statistical models and ranking systems and other like bs metrics just waste people's time. They aren't real. But they WILL REALLY LEAD YOU to the wrong conclusion. Because you trusted a number in a vacuum tube to be the same in the real life working universe which is anything but a vacuum. Might as well use a magic 8 ball. Or if someone smoked/snorted an eight ball you'd might understand why they came to such a crazy conclusion...the drugs.
We all need to be better than believe some fake made up crap means something. Gov't Data is bs. Market Metrics is bs. QB Rating is useless. Even looking at plain vanilla sports statistics doesn't always make a compelling case, and has error built into it. What's worse is people actually spend money on classes in college, or hear a speech in the real world that tries to convince people that the snake oil they are selling them will give them the info they need to make 'better decisions'. It won't. The world is failing, because more and more, people are believing and entrusting all sorts of life to the same kind of bullcrap that thesmell rationalized that ML was an elite QB...just in equally..but different..crazy ways. While thesmell represents something here that is pretty unique, in today's screwed up world, there is a little 'thesmell' in just about everyone and in just about every decision that is made. So while we are all focused on thesmell, lets not forget that the world officially believes in thesmell's methodology, and that is what should scare us the most.
Folks we're dealing with a 'belief system' here. These people believe in nonsense. They believe their nonsense means something. Then they make their decisions based on this bs, and think it means something. That it is something true. It isn't.
Wake up to the bs sophistry thesmell is an example of. It's everywhere, and it is effecting you. Thesmel is just an example of how easily people can be lied to and be corrupted into spewing complete nonsense and believing it to be valid. There isn't always two sides to things, and if you give someone enough time, they'll make bs like this up and turn them into useful idiots. Because every time people like thesmel make a decision based on someone, and they believe it, thesmell is indoctrinating people into the 'believe that numbers mean something' racket. The last couple of decades there has been a 'syngergy' going on where everywhere and everything has to be broken down into numbers which can then be judged to mean something, and in the process, everything real to actually judge things on, has been forgotten.
So I'll end this soapbox rant with the voice of Momma Boucher, 'statistics are the devil'. Don't ever rely on them or you are using the equivalent of dental floss for bungee jumping. Hopefully you'll find another way to express your viewpoints of how good someone is, and find someone to like that actually plays. Ditch the incorrect rating system. At least you'd be acting smarter than lots of idiots out there.
If you don't like the way thesmell judges things, watch out, because according to everyone, his idiot rationale is the wave of the future (and the present). But something tells me, eventually we'll figure it out and stamp out the nonsense. But really thesmell is no more guilty than just about everyone else. He's just guilty of believing it more than others.
