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because......more players were injured this year?This has been an unusual season in terms of injuries.
Yes, greater breadth of knowledge, larger number of sources, and info gets on this board much faster than on google. Google doesn't tell you what Adam Schefter just posted on his Twitter, but SP does.
Actually Google will tell you what he just tweeted. I'm talking the serious info. There's one guy in particular whose name escapes me who has had bits weeks before the general populace.
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Injury info is a lot more complicated than that. Homers will know coaches' tendencies concerning injury info. Homers will also know individual players' propensity to return from certain kinds of injuries -- which guys will play through anything humany possible, and which will sit with a hangnail. Also, which coaches will let a guy sit out of practice all week but still start Sunday, and which ones won't -- the homers will know.Further than that, some (most?) teams, as an operational strategy, obfuscate actual injury statuses. A good 2010 example is Sean Payton and the Saints hiding for two months that Pierre Thomas had a torn tendon in his ankle -- most observers thought he had a nasty sprain, but would return a few weeks after the injury. So you had FFB owners in here in early October thinking about Thomas as a sharky pickup for the second half of the FFB regular season ... Saints homers were in here to warn others about Payton's injury-reporting tendencies.Another Saints example -- the Saints like to use "sports hernia" as a covering term to avoid being specific about an injury (e.g. Jabari Greer last season). Homers can usually offer insight into this kind of stuff.
Yes, consult the Colts injury report for up to the minute news. There's a wealth of information.As for why "homers" are asked? Really? Many homers listen to local sports radio, they get to see the games on TV (we don't all have the Sunday Ticket) and they read the local beat writers in the news paper while they're taking a dump. I suppose I could find the local radio feed online and listen to 1 1/2 hours a day of each AFC team on Mon, Wed, Fri and each NFC team on Tue, Thu, Sat, all the while my wife reads the newspaper from each teams hometown aloud next to me while I scribble notes furiously.Or I could be part of a community such as the shark pool, where people are willing to share what they know.Serious question - what kind of info would you prefer to see on the message board in November and December?
Just out of curiosity, how long have you been involved with FF?
When I ask injury questions like the Vincent Jackson one that is on the front page it is because I have done my homework and discovered no information. If I had not posted the thread I would not know that Jackson was at practice in near as timely a manner because a homer found out through twitter and posted it well before you would find word about it on Google. I bet if you google now it doesnt come up.. Sometimes there is information to be had when you ask for it.Edit: Its on google now but this was hours after the news broke here.
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