Hey Guys,
Spinnoff from this thread.
One of the best ways the Shark Pool can be useful is with breaking news.
We'll never ever come close to beating twitter and other social media as there are simply so many people listening compared to the audience here. So we'll likely never get it first here. And that's fine. What we CAN do much better here though is discuss it intelligently. The average poster here is way smarter than the average guy on Twitter when it comes to football. Let's use what we have.
For instance, if you saw Adam Schefter tweet on Hunter Henry's injury last week, a lot of the twitter discussion was the entirely predictable stuff with zero usefulness. It was "LOL at Chargers - should have drafted a TE" type stuff. That's useful to nobody.
We can do TONS better. But it'll take effort on your part. I think we should do something that is uniform like this:
1. It should NOT go in the master thread which might be years old and not have the right title. It should be a new thread.
2. We likely should establish a standard way of making a new post. Something like: BREAKING (DATE) and (TIME including Time Zone) Full Player Name then Issue
So something like: BREAKING - 5/22/18 10:00 PM ET - Hunter Henry Torn ACL
Then the the post needs to be whatever happened and most importantly of all A LINK to the story. If you don't have a link, say how you heard it. It's ok if you heard on radio or you heard it at the bar or whatever. As long as you're clear.
Something like
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/999102898561744896
That make sense?
Spinnoff from this thread.
One of the best ways the Shark Pool can be useful is with breaking news.
We'll never ever come close to beating twitter and other social media as there are simply so many people listening compared to the audience here. So we'll likely never get it first here. And that's fine. What we CAN do much better here though is discuss it intelligently. The average poster here is way smarter than the average guy on Twitter when it comes to football. Let's use what we have.
For instance, if you saw Adam Schefter tweet on Hunter Henry's injury last week, a lot of the twitter discussion was the entirely predictable stuff with zero usefulness. It was "LOL at Chargers - should have drafted a TE" type stuff. That's useful to nobody.
We can do TONS better. But it'll take effort on your part. I think we should do something that is uniform like this:
1. It should NOT go in the master thread which might be years old and not have the right title. It should be a new thread.
2. We likely should establish a standard way of making a new post. Something like: BREAKING (DATE) and (TIME including Time Zone) Full Player Name then Issue
So something like: BREAKING - 5/22/18 10:00 PM ET - Hunter Henry Torn ACL
Then the the post needs to be whatever happened and most importantly of all A LINK to the story. If you don't have a link, say how you heard it. It's ok if you heard on radio or you heard it at the bar or whatever. As long as you're clear.
Something like
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/999102898561744896
3. Then we can discuss with the focus being on HOW THIS IMPACTS OTHERS. In other words, Hunter Henry news the other day should mostly be about who is going to see work now. I don't want to be cold towards Henry and I'm sorry he's hurt, but for most of us, the USEFUL discussion will be on what happens now.Stunner from LA: Chargers’ TE Hunter Henry suffered a season-ending torn ACL today, per league source. Did it during a drill, running downfield, untouched. Second opinion coming Wednesday.
That make sense?
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