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in some of the more negative threads, i notice a creeping undertone of moral judgment as some posters "evaluate' the team's problems
just evaluating play and Xs & Os does not fully address the issue for them, an assessment of the team's character is necessary
Culturally we do seem to subconsciously equate "winning" with being good and "losing" with being bad (even though we know better, it's hard for us to not see a rich/successful person as "blessed" and think that a poor person must have done something bad along the way to get where they are)
even in our language the ambiguity of "good" meaning capable or meaning virtuous aids in the confusion/conflation - because a person makes (calls) a bad play, it doesn't make them a bad person
i think this is where the desire to see punishment comes from - some posters want the "bad" people to face a reckoning and that just completely confuses the issue (you might as well get mad at a coin for landing heads up more than 3x in a row)
1. it's not helpful in the analysis of what (if anything) needs to change
2. it takes us into a realm that's difficult to discuss - once we drift into that morality realm, we're discussing belief systems which are 100% subjective - you might as well say, "we shouldn't have Coleman as a receiver b/c his zodiac sign is Cancer and we all know crabs can't catch")
tl/dr - let's try to avoid "moral" assessments of players/the team - not helpful
just evaluating play and Xs & Os does not fully address the issue for them, an assessment of the team's character is necessary
Culturally we do seem to subconsciously equate "winning" with being good and "losing" with being bad (even though we know better, it's hard for us to not see a rich/successful person as "blessed" and think that a poor person must have done something bad along the way to get where they are)
even in our language the ambiguity of "good" meaning capable or meaning virtuous aids in the confusion/conflation - because a person makes (calls) a bad play, it doesn't make them a bad person
i think this is where the desire to see punishment comes from - some posters want the "bad" people to face a reckoning and that just completely confuses the issue (you might as well get mad at a coin for landing heads up more than 3x in a row)
1. it's not helpful in the analysis of what (if anything) needs to change
2. it takes us into a realm that's difficult to discuss - once we drift into that morality realm, we're discussing belief systems which are 100% subjective - you might as well say, "we shouldn't have Coleman as a receiver b/c his zodiac sign is Cancer and we all know crabs can't catch")
tl/dr - let's try to avoid "moral" assessments of players/the team - not helpful