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Originally Posted by Bald_81
Long was the pick without force from Shaw according to Bernie and Balzer so its true to you.
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Because I've yet to see anything to suggest otherwise, except for a report citing "league sources" on a website that's notorious for being less than completely accurate in the past.
You seem to think I'm believing one side over the other because that's the side I
want to believe. That's simply incorrect. I'm believing one side over the other because I see no meaningful evidence behind PFT's story, whereas the two people on the other side have actually asked around the organization about this issue. Furthermore, PFT's account of coaches and scouts all preferring Dorsey simply does not jive with previous reports.
It's a matter of supporting evidence, and there's just not much of it behind the PFT report. Which again, given my experience, isn't abnormal for them.
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Originally Posted by Bald_81
Anything having to do with Dorsey's medical being resolved was untrue because other sources did not support the statement so you take their side, even though Devaney comes out and says it straight.
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If separate reports by Howard Balzer and Pro Football Weekly never surfaced about multiple team doctors having injury concerns about Dorsey, then I likely wouldn't have had significant concerns about his medical status. But those reports were made, and there never really was anything conclusive to suggest the reports were inaccurate or wrong. At one point you cited a McShay analysis of Dorsey's pro day, and even in that video McShay talked about how Dorsey's medical evaluations were all over the place and remained a mystery.
There was simply a lot out there that put a big shroud of mystery over this issue, and on the other side, very little to actually clear it up. These were significant questions, and what were the answers? Comments from a team official a few weeks before the draft saying they don't have any questions on him? I wasn't the only one who acknowledged at the time that Devaney's comments weren't exactly made in a situation that yielded itself to complete honesty.
Again, it's about evidence, support, and credibility. This PFT report doesn't seem to have much of any of them, which for them is not incredibly abnormal. If something new to the story surfaces, I'll revisit it and examine that new information. Right now, I feel pretty confident about which side to trust, and it's not based on personal preference but rather the cases made by both sides.