Information Explosion Is Not Always A Good Thing

I’d also just like to add, I’m loving the new attitude you’ve brought to BBV as of late, really fresh.

You’ve always been the voice of reason around here, and after the jump on this post you clearly still are. But (in my eyes anyway) it looks like you’ve been loosening up a bit…perhaps even having some fun? If so, good for you, because it’s only made this readers experience that much more enjoyable.

but the inferences are a bit much. It’ll subside once we have games to talk about

the majority of BBVers will calm down, relax, wait until this weekend….

and by Monday Morning Ed will have to do another one of these posts….because it will be a feeding frenzy again.

Couldn’t agree more. I’ve long tried to preach temperance in the face of information overload, bc it always takes time to get a real picture of what’s actually going on, in any field.

I’ve been saying for a few years that the 24 hour news cycle is the reason that America has become such a partisan place, with everyone arguing about everything, from politics to sports to music to movies. Now with Twitter it’s become even worse. The media needs to fill every second with “news” so they report incomplete information which causes everyone to overreact.

I will not post MG’s latest Twitter update….

Helps fill the days between the actual games.

I busted your chops a bit yesterday after the Twitter post, but if ever there was a time to play Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” in a blog, now would be the time…Nice work, have to share this with my buddies in the office.

Keep up this Legendary blog!

Very easy to catch the circular reasoning bug at times. Granted most of the comments on this blog is worth reading, so of us live for a debate and don’t mind inciting vitual riots in the process. there has to be balance Conflict is not always entertaining. Good post Ed. I am sure Free and Zil liked it more than others.

but I can’t help myself.

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DE Dave Tollefson is taking a lot of snaps today at DT. … Unless we’re calling that position DE now? #NYG

that Nicks and Tim Brown are returning kicks today. i know Hakeem is elusive and that our return game is always pretty weak, but i hate starters on special teams

Too many live and die with one play, one practice or one game. If a player makes a great play they’re ready to anoint him. Bad play? Cut him. There’s more to grading a player then the plays they make or don’t make. It’s what they do that we don’t see. A good example is a receiver blocking downfield. We rarely see it. It takes place (or doesn’t) on every running play.

Another example is INTs. The INT stat falls on the QB but in so many cases the blame lies with the receiver. The ball tips off his hands, like Smith in the SB. The receiver runs the wrong route. The receiver is slow out of his cut on a timing route. Eli takes and accepts the blame for most of the INTs. In reality it’s often the receivers fault.

Good post Ed.

The post and every comment that followed are better than anything I’ve ever read in my life. That being said…it’s obviously authored by someone within the Cowboys organization…they can do no wrong.

way to bring everyone back down to earth, awesome.

I’m new to BBV but this is easily the best post I’ve read yet. LMFAOooo @ this

Shaun O’Hara skipped practice! The season is over!! How will we ever get the ball snapped to Eli?? Oh, wait, he can’t put a helmet on!!!

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Michael Boley is playing the strong side, which is what Sintim should be playing, but Fewell calls it the weak side. Bulluck is playing the weak side, which is where Boley should be playing, but Fewell calls it the strong side.

If they are doing this just so they can have different fronts in a regular season game, then it’s fine. You have the LBs switch sides and force defenses to see players in positions that they aren’t use to seeing. Great.

If this is just Fewell’s quirkiness, then this is stupid – really effin stupid. Boley and Bulluck are weak side linebackers. Plain and simple. Let Sintim stay in his spot until he proves that he can’t cut it. Let Bulluck spell Goff, as needed. Stop confusing the players.

Andiamo (NYC)

Yes or No; Does Dave Tollefson make the 53 man roster?
Ohm (4:26 PM)

Definitely Yes. He played some DT and LB today.

half the team is injured and half the team are busts / projects or in some cases both but we still manage to make the playoffs with those same guys?

couldn’t have said it any better

This is some funny stuff.

i love this new Ed, preach on brother, preach on…

This is why i love this site
+68 to the bender picture

lets put andiamo at OC, I know he would love to replace Killdrive, and Ed, how would you like to replace Mara/Tisch and own the NY Giants?

it might take me at least an hour to read though this post. awesome

I re watched the Steelers game and it looks like they either get in the QB’s face instantly or they give him all the time in the world. With most other Front 7s they at least get to the QB in a timely manner…. Hopefully Fewell gets them to not give up big plays all the time but this defense still looks weak and has been mauled over by everyone so far. I think if this team makes the playoffs this year it will be because Eli and the OLine are brilliant rather than because the defense is any good.

On a serious note, Ed, it’s good that you roll with the hyper-information era. We love it. The bottom line is, your job — and you do it very well — is simply to provide all the information you can stand by.
What other people do with it — hysterics, prognostications, suicide — that’s their problem!

This is the storm before the calm. We need our football, and we need it now!

Neither the cowboys nor the eagles can score a touchdown while we’ve played tougher defenses. On the other hand our defense has been getting embarrassed by some pretty mediocre offenses but I think we’ve looked quite good so far.

Also every team has had a lot of small injuries that cause you to miss practice so it is not some kind of an anomaly