Just ran into a friend who is an NFL scout

[The Franchise]

Weird how a lot of people always run into or over hear NFL scouts on this board

It's usually guys with no posts too. Funny how that works.

Even funnier is the way these knuckle draggers eat it up.

As a timeshare salesman extraordinaire, I'm going to buy D$'s list of gullible dopey subscribers and make millions selling them vacation packages.

 

[AtlantaCANE4life]

Weird how a lot of people always run into or over hear NFL scouts on this board

I share your skepticism. This may be legitimate. Often it is not. And the trend is hardly restricted to sports forums. I've seen it on true crime sites and political sites and elsewhere. The person wants to give his own opinion a boost of legitimacy so he paints and shines it via sourcing from an anonymous authority. The vehicle seldom varies. It's always a friend who he happened to run into and suddenly this guy shares virtually every specialized knowledge and opinion, word for word. Quite remarkable.

When it is legitimate normally there are more direct quotes instead of summaries, and more of the quotes will include angles and ideas that are atypical, since an outsider won't be seeing everything from the same perspective that we do. Wow type of stuff. Didn't think of that. Plus the specialist generally won't be familiar with everybody and everything, since his duties include dozens of other schools, etc. He will be confident enough to concede he's not an authority on everybody.

This is a low post OP. I apologize if it's legit. I have no opinion either way. But I've caught several posters attempting this elsewhere. Handicapper's instincts. One guy ran away and never posted again.

I was pretty reluctant to say anything. And although I did not write in my OP I later said that he did not really know much about AQM when I asked him. And the reason why he knew of Tracy Howard was because he was evaluating many SR's along with the guys who were going to the Sr. Bowl. I was not looking for attention I hardly even post on this board although I do post on another board a lot. I just started following this site. But its a harmless post I didn't really think there was anything posted in my OP that anyone would be surprised about. Which is why I posted. But I did in fact run into someone who use to be more of a friend but it not much of one now due to him moving to another state. And he knew I was a Cane fans and asked me about Richt. I then asked what he thought of these guys. Like I said my first question was about AQM... He said "who".. then he gave me that funny line. Did not know much else. Anyway, its ok you question it..