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[Teamcheez1]

JR @JReidDraftScout 4h4 hours ago
With DT Sharrif Floyd going to IR, the Vikings now have 6 former first-round picks on IR this season.

They keep drafting soft players.

[pbmax]

What is the current theory on Norv leaving?

[gbgary]

What is the current theory on Norv leaving?

2-5 since he left. seems obvious. whoever forced his retirement, and didn't have his back, severely undervalued him.

[Cheesehead Craig]

I think Shurmer somehow got into Zimmer's or Spielman's ear that Turner wasn't the answer and that he could do much better, while undermining Norv. Norv gets forced out and the offense continues it's crappy play.

[Fritz]

You criticize his logic, then you try to equivocate Earl Thomas's durability to Nick Perry's. Perry has missed games in every single season. After this season he will have only played in 70% of possible games in 5 seasons, whereas Thomas will have played in 96% of his games in 7 seasons and never missed a game before this season.
People forget too that even when Perry has played he has been battling nagging injuries. Similar to Clay, people don't factor all the time he has played but has been limited, and with a club or brace or whatever and not as effective.

I didn't try to "equivocate" anything. Nor did I try to equate, if that's what you meant, Thomas and Perry. I used APB's own lack of logic, which is this: "Not sure Ted's Team is a playoff contender, but Demovsky is reporting that Nikki Perry "could be done for the season" with a "significant hand injury. Not surprising. Polar Bear is soft and he drafts soft players."

So, if a player is "soft" because he could miss the rest of the season due to injury, it follows that Earl Thomas is soft.

So yes, that's "logic" worth criticizing.

[yetisnowman]

I didn't try to "equivocate" anything. Nor did I try to equate, if that's what you meant, Thomas and Perry. I used APB's own lack of logic, which is this: "Not sure Ted's Team is a playoff contender, but Demovsky is reporting that Nikki Perry "could be done for the season" with a "significant hand injury. Not surprising. Polar Bear is soft and he drafts soft players."

So, if a player is "soft" because he could miss the rest of the season due to injury, it follows that Earl Thomas is soft.

So yes, that's "logic" worth criticizing.

Your logic fails though, because Perry is injury prone and has missed games in every season. He isn't being called soft for getting hurt this season. It's because he has a pattern of getting hurt. I don't think it's softness necessarily. But it's something...maybe just bad luck.

[Fritz]

Your logic fails though, because Perry is injury prone and has missed games in every season. He isn't being called soft for getting hurt this season. It's because he has a pattern of getting hurt. I don't think it's softness necessarily. But it's something...maybe just bad luck.

The whole problem is that it's not "my" logic - it's what APB is claiming.

Yes, Perry does have a pattern of getting hurt. No question. But does that make him "soft"? Not to me, no. From what I have read he's held in regard by teammates for his willingness to play while injured.

Maybe it is bad luck. Usually, it can't be overcome, that history of injuries, but it does happen. Mike Flanagan, a very good Packers' center was badly hurt early in his career, but came back to play very well.

Ultimately, I just think it's silly or dumb to write posts that suggest Ted Thompson "likes" soft players. No NFL GM "likes" soft players. That's an idiotic thing to say. Does he value athleticism over plain meanness? Maybe. But that is not even close to the same thing as saying he "likes" soft players.

[Pugger]

Why does this particular poster never show up after the Packers play well?

We really shouldn't feed the troll.