Hawkpower":1esya5dy said:
MontanaHawk05":1esya5dy said:
Scorpion05":1esya5dy said:
People should eat crow. The negativity around Penny reminds of the negativity surrounding Wilson when he came out. People really, REALLY wanted to be right about Wilson being a "fun backup."
Same here. People really, REALLY want to be right about Penny not being worth it. In truth, MOST late 1st round picks end up being average to out of the league. Penny on several occasions has shown he has elite speed and cutting ability. People just chose to nitpick, because they want to be right. If we're being objective (and some of you aren't), Penny was never given the amount of carries to definitely prove he was a bust.
If you want to boil this down to personal potshots, I can think of quite a few "just want to be right" on the other side, too. Goes to show how pointless an approach that is, as tempted as I am to engage in it myself.
The key difference is, those on "Team Penny" want to be right because Penny being a stud benefits their favorite team.
What leg do the negative Penny posters have to stand on? Other than personal satisfaction of being right, there is literally nothing else. Penny being a non asset as a 1st round pick hurts their favorite team.
Why would one "want to be right" on Penny being a bust if their favorite team plays in Seattle?
That's where personal pride gets gross and weird. We see it on message boards all the time.
I do it myself quite frequently if I'm being honest
Pride gets involved when someone is selected with big collateral with a first-round pick but then gets legitimately outplayed and doesn't get the job. And Carson did legitimately outplay him last year. We had one of the top rushing attacks in the NFL, if not THE top, with Carson in the chamber.
Pride also gets involved when word gets out that a player didn't take the offseason seriously. That's happened twice now. That's 100% on Penny and the second time, especially, is pretty difficult to deflect when it comes straight from his own mouth.
Pride gets involved yet again when one of Penny's biggest knocks coming out of the draft, lack of solid pass pro skills, gets his QB sacked. It happened at least once again today.
If Penny can keep it up, great. I don't really care as long as the best RB is out there. But it needs to be consistent, and it needs to be physical. I was more impressed by that 5-yard grinding run against the 49ers - the one that made half a dozen people in the Gameday forum think it was Carson - then anything that he did today.