The Post of the Week thread

[Cult of Dionysus]

Based upon some exchanges that resulted from the locking of The Popcorn thread, I think it would be great to have an annual thread that highlights some of the best posts of each week. If you see a great post, provide a link below and give your thoughts why you think it is a "post of the week".... insightful, funny, iconoclastic / anti-group think, etc.

No real rules for this. Just let's keep the discussions herein clean, so as not to get locked as well.

At the end of the year, we should have a nice catalogue of great posts, and we could even nominate 10 or 12 of them for "post of the year." Just an added wrinkle I thought of as I was typing this.

[Cult of Dionysus]

From the "Return of the Stud RB" thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=165802

The premise stated by the OP is not wrong but in my opinion scratches the surface for a few reasons .

1) the NFL is cyclical in nature - with the pretenders always chasing the trend chasers be it in scheme , play calling or personnel . Defenses adjust and imitators while flattering usually are cheap replicas of the original copy and thus lesser quality

2) the rules change periodically and they have changed towards the passing game recently forcing defenses to adjust by adding more dbs thus making running more appealing with deone buchanon / mark barron sized LBS .

3) talent pools fluctuate thus at times more premium talent at rb than wr thus changing the landscape of positional depth .

4) the vanguard of elite qbs (brady brees ben rivers - all on or nearing the white flag lap of their races) is aging fast and there to my eyes does not appear to be an equal quantity or quality on the horizon thus making passing 650 times less appealing than the last decade.
This could be a long term issue or not just look at the way truly JAG players like garrapolo ,cousins and this run of the mill qb class are being hyped up like unitas and peyton as savior's of the game/franchises . showing the league's desperation to find the next batch or poster boys

5) the huge rb depth at this point could go away in a blink with a few injuries or guys getting paid and easing off the gas desire wise .

all non scientific observations /opinions of a multi decade football fan for what that is worth - the nfl has become a victim of its own success with all the reports of CTE and the billions it churns through its coffers each year putting a target on it's own forehead . With college football more and more going with spread offenses and flag football/7 on 7 offensive concepts the passing game/wr value will return most likely sooner rather than later . This assumes 2 things : first , the league finds it's poster boy qb fleet - secondly ,defenses adjust to slow down the elliotts gurleys and kamaras of the world .

Either way as skip mentioned PPR was a way to level the fantasy playing field for the owners that ended up with chester taylor or kevan barlow as opposed to larry johnson or shaun alexander . Now 2qb or superflex is now one of those ways and going into the future it is hard to say what the next trend will be - what I do know is that zigging while the herd of dynasty wildebeasts are zagging is usually going to mean less traffic and less redundancy in people using the same strategy.

Don't follow the well worn path take a machete' and create your own path !

[clarion contrarion]

hey COD - cool idea and thank you for the mention

[skip]

clarion will most likely get the most mentions in here. I love his insightful and well thought out takes. I can even look past his lack of capitalization and poor punctuation, the posts are that good.

[clarion contrarion]

aw shuxx skip you are my favorite browns fan ever thank you for the (mostly LOL) kind words !

[Bot101]

DD just won the week in the Stats/Facts thread.

[ArrylT]

Just bumping this in case someone else has seen a worthy mention.

[Cult of Dionysus]

For this thread to work well, and to make it user-friendly, we need to post a link to the post and paste the quote as well.

[hockeyBjj]

I am however quite intrigued by cazzie & clarions willingness to use handcuffs on each other.

context intentionally left out

[Gtdano_14]

Not sure how seriously we are taking this thread, but here is my nomination:

Answering the question, "Why is Chubb Falling?"

Too much whiskey

[Cult of Dionysus]

Sorry, that was meant to go into the Popcorn thread.

[cazzie33]

^^^
Condensation ???

Ok, I gotta 'fess up. I only typed half of the word and that's what came up but in defense I couldn't see the word hardly at all on my small flip phone screen through the "condensation" in my eyes from laughing at this "conversation" between the two of you

Literally love the back & forth of your "Pros-e & Cons-descension" over C.C. and R.I.P. (Damn auto-spell) This debate helped fill the void until the actual competition begins in earnest to decide who will be the "star" ... and as always in Seattle it will be Coach Carroll who loves him some Petey. Look for more "indecision" and over thinking like the call that cost them a Super Bowl.

If you think that it could be neither of those two then I agree. That's "Prosise-ly" what I was thinking

[ArrylT]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... t-practice

This may ease some owners Luck concerns.

My concerns are not going to be alleviated until hitting starts.

I'm personally waiting until he's enshrined in the HOF.

From the Andrew Luck thread.