F... Kool-Aid

[Schneed10]

This debate, raging amongst several threads, over optimism vs pessimism, over idealism vs realism, over Kool-Aid vs Haterade, is making me sick to my stomach. It's juvenile, and frankly something I'd expect to find at Extreme.

If you're an optimist, that's great. At heart, we all are, because our love for the team drives us to hope for the best. In our heads however, I don't think there's a one of us who doesn't have doubts.

This goofy Kool-Aid vs Haterade thing is all about the battle between your heart and your head. So how about this: a return to intelligent debate at The Warpath.

In this thread, I'd like to hear LOGICAL and RATIONAL arguments for things like:

- Why we'll make the playoffs
- How we'll make the playoffs
- Why and/or how we'll beat the Cowboys
- How we'll make up for injured players

I don't want to see any opinions in this thread that look like this:

I believe Jason Campbell will have a great game, for some reason. [If you can't point to a reason, your belief holds no water. Remember, this is the thread where we return to KNOWLEDGEABLE discussion. No discussion based on belief allowed.]

And nothing looking like this:

I think we'll beat the Cowboys because I want us to beat the Cowboys. No S, Sherlock. Of course we all want to beat the Cowboys. But what we want (or said differently, hope for) is not the same thing as what we THINK.

Come on Warpath, restore my faith in you. Make rational arguments, stop questioning each other's fanhood, and get back to relevant discussion. I challenge the optimists among us to give rational reasoning for why we have cause to be optimistic. This way, we might look at this thread and actually have something meaningful to get excited about.