I mean, you hated on my WIP sponsored Bijan pick, and that's fine. Where we the Eagles be without Barkley? I mean, really?If you don't have some truly embarrassing opinions with hindsight, it just means you're too stupid to look for and/or find them.
I have my NFL draft boards going back to 2001. I assure you I know I'm an idiot.
No insults man. I was just trying to speak plainly and we weren't really talking about the same things. Its all good.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
Read that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
Ooo this is a tricky one. I was on both sides of the Myers coin. I got accused of hyping him up too much shortly after he signed as an UDFA- It was truly a breath taking watch, but then people did get too carried away the next year and I wasn't all the way there.
We all might have wasted our time by not saying TK though. Forward > Defensemen if all else is equal is something I've learned.
You should change your tag line to Morin Stan for the feelsRead that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
I was definitely too high on Morin (not in that post but in general). His highs were extremely high and I overvalued those over his whole body of work. I think if anyone watched him extensively before he broke his jaw in his D+2 I don't think it was as crazy too value him highly. He was a freakish athlete with improving puck skills, but I probably put too much faith in blind development in areas that are difficult to improve. He missed loads of dev time in Junior and later in his ELC. It was a death sentence for a player of his skillset.
And that one blurb about Hagg 11 months after he was drafted was, believe it or not, a pessimistic take at the time. Hagg was a big scorer in Junior and even played on the PP in the WJCs in his draft year. It was also 10+ years ago. In that era, he did have a decent skill level. It never improved and possibly got worse when he came to NA (wonder why!). He also bulked up too and I don't think his stiffness helped matters.
This applies to Morin also - The baseline skill level for defensemen went up exponentially shortly after this time period (hell Sanheim has never been a PP regular in his career and he was a one man offense in the WHL). I promise you won't find many, if any, positive Hagg posts from his D+2 onward from me. And I was on an island for much of that time.
2014 is the first year I really started to watch prospects regularly. I'd like to think I've worked out some of the kinks and developed better opinions in part because of bad opinions the past.
I don't value anything from him until it's in spreadsheet form. Colors preferred.
I'm light years away, bb. Might be making a similar mistake I've made before with Jackson Smith, idk yet. I've learned a ton from y'all though.
Read that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
I was definitely too high on Morin (not in that post but in general). His highs were extremely high and I overvalued those over his whole body of work. I think if anyone watched him extensively before he broke his jaw in his D+2 I don't think it was as crazy to value him highly. He was a freakish athlete with improving puck skills, but I probably put too much faith in blind development in areas that are difficult to improve. He missed loads of dev time in Junior and later in his ELC. It was a death sentence for a player of his skillset.
And that one blurb about Hagg 11 months after he was drafted was, believe it or not, a pessimistic take at the time. Hagg was a big scorer in Junior and even played on the PP in the WJCs in his draft year. It was also 10+ years ago. In that era, he did have a decent skill level. It never improved and possibly got worse when he came to NA (wonder why!). He also bulked up too and I don't think his stiffness helped matters.
This applies to Morin also - The baseline skill level for defensemen went up exponentially shortly after this time period (hell Sanheim has never been a PP regular in his career and he was a one man offense in the WHL). Andrew MacDonald was getting PP time in 2014. Fringe prospects turned into non-prospects pretty quickly. I promise you won't find many, if any, positive Hagg posts from his D+2 onward from me. And I was on an island for much of that time.
2014 is the first year I really started to watch prospects regularly. I'd like to think I've worked out some of the kinks and developed better opinions in part because of bad opinions the past.
