https://twitter.com/JeffDarlington I found Farmer's comments on Aponte and Philbin mildly interesting. Darlington thinks it will be another week before anything is decided. I wonder if there really is a favorite at this point.
"I’m told Ray Farmer, for instance, was delightfully surprised by the situation in Miami. He really liked everyone, including Aponte/Philbin." Unpossible! We have been told that Aponte was ruining everything and no one would want to work with/under her!
Well, Darlington is clearly out of the loop when it comes to Dolphins inside information. We already know for a fact that Dolphins management is a very unattractive and undesirable pit of snakes and nest of harpies.
I hear that every time you walk into an office, you have to grab a puppy from the bucket and snap its neck before you're allowed to speak otherwise Aponte sends Photoshopped nude pictures of herself and you to your significant other.
Who told you that the GM works under the capologist? Because that's not true. Aponte's job title and the job title of general manager are at the same level of the organizational chart. One is not above the other. Aponte used to work under Ireland until Ross promoted her to an equal level.
Brian Xanders interviewing today per Mort. Former Broncos GM. Good candidate. Never had final say but Broncos 2010 and 2011 drafts were excellent outside of Tebow, which was a McDanield project
Yeah, you pretty much missed what I did there. Mainly the part where I intentionally took his strawman seriously in order to deconstruct it.
Then you failed miserably. Many people on here have been claiming that the GM position isn't clearly defined and it seems like the new GM might be under Aponte. he was making a joke about those people. All you did was miss the joke and, essentially, agree with his premise.
LiferYank constructed a strawman, which you just repeated. I deconstructed it. No failure was incurred. Here's the thing about strawmen, they require a basis in fact in order to be at least passably plausible. Who are these "many people on here [who] have been claiming that the GM position isn't clearly defined", as you state? If there was such a crowd, they disappeared after last week. Tell you what, let the people who write their own posts defend their own assertions. Don't white knight them.
Ok, sure, no one but no one has been complaining about Aponte having too much power in this process and they she may have power over the GM. That simply never happened, clearly me and all the others are making it up.
Again, who are they? If they're so numerous you should be able to name them off the top of your head. The fact that you can't name them means they aren't very numerous. You still need to go back and re-read my post about how Aponte is equal with the GM. You're trying to argue things at me that I'm not disputing. You also still need to stop white knighting.
Desides, there's been a consistent group of people crowing about Aponte following the exit of Ireland. Could I name them all? No, as I try not to focus on their negative stuff too much. Also, please don't accuse me of "white knighting..." I'd prefer to be Robin Hood.
Really bothers me how loosely (incorrectly) people here use the term straw man . I also had a good laugh at the term" white knighting"... it's a message board..... lol. (In before I get replied with a Google definition of straw man and a defense against an argument I'm not making)
Is this enough: That's just from 2 different threads. There's more threads and posts. I am not going to find them all for you. I suggest in the future, you stop making a strawman by claiming every opposing argument is a strawman.
It was actually pretty funny. I am surprised an astute observer like Desides got all serious over it.
