With RB Isiah Pacheco expected to be sideliend 6-8 weeks, the Chiefs are bringing their former RB Kareem Hunt back to Kansas City for a Tuesday visit, per league sources. Hunt could help fill the Chiefs’ running back void. pic.twitter.com/nDzNGlrcuH
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
If I had known a Butker/Hunt tweet spliced with a video of LeBron/Curry would upset you this much, I of course would never have posted it. What do you take me for?
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Oh it usually does.
That really stupid ESPN show Playmakers did the best job ever of demonstrating exactly how.
The 'Old Warhorse' runningback spent the series trying to prove he was still as good as he used to be and was every bit as good as the new hot shit kid. And then in the last episode of the season, a hole opens up and he breaks into it.
I don't remember how they did it, but they contrasted him getting through the hole as a younger back with the version of him now that was just a half a step slower. And when he got there, the hole slammed shut.
The problem with a talent diminution is that the results aren't linear.
You fall off 10% in talent, you're not 90% as productive. When that happens, you're probably just not an NFL player anymore. Because you needed every last bit of that talent to clear that NFL ability threshhold.
If Hunt's fallen off 10%, he's not 90% of the player he once was. In fact, he'd be lucky to be HALF that guy.
Yeah, talent absolutely simply evaporates sometimes. Most times, in fact.
But hey, maybe Kareem is an outlier.
I define talent as innate ability that is there even after the body no longer allows that talent to be displayed. If Hunt isn't beaten up physically, there is no reason he can't do most or all of the things he did in 2018. He wasn't a speedster even as a rookie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
The whole point of a joke is that it's supposed to be clever/funny. When it's not, people usually explain why it's a dumb joke.
I don't think anybody would accuse the tweet of high comedy, no. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
S tier I'd say, but reasonable minds differ.
Nah. That's Hammock and Hootie tier. Guys that can actually provide excitement. You're firmly bottom tier precisely because you offer none of that. Be a better shit poster, please and thanks. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThrobProng:
I define talent as innate ability that is there even after the body no longer allows that talent to be displayed. If Hunt isn't beaten up physically, there is no reason he can't do most or all of the things he did in 2018. He wasn't a speedster even as a rookie.
Oh.
I'm sorry - I presumed your definition of 'talent' actually made sense in my response to you.
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Nah. That's Hammock and Hootie tier. Guys that can actually provide excitement. You're firmly bottom tier precisely because you offer none of that. Be a better shit poster, please and thanks.
Well at least basketball season is around the corner. That's when I peak. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThrobProng:
I define talent as innate ability that is there even after the body no longer allows that talent to be displayed. If Hunt isn't beaten up physically, there is no reason he can't do most or all of the things he did in 2018. He wasn't a speedster even as a rookie.
You are denying the impacts of aging on said “talent”? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
Yeah, but that's a niche thread and let's be honest, more than half of that is staylor raging into the void at LeBron.
You're right, LeBron really does make the job easy when virtually anything he does or says makes others irrationally angry. [Reply]
