They could smell it when they said Patrick Turner couldn't get seperation or run routes....they could sense it when they said you'd have to be a fool to take Chad Istheantichristington over 2nd year Matt Ryan...they could sense it when they said that Gibril Wilson was a waste of money and that Miami's $50 million safeties better play like it...they could smell it when they said that the offense would convert more 3rd downs and score more points under Chad Henne (even though he couldn't "beat out" the incumbent)....the could sense it when they said Ricky is an AFM (automatic fumble machine)....they could smell it when they said Pat White was a waste of a perfectly good 2nd round draft pick..
Your turn...
Some of these I'm not even sure what you're talking about. At least everything I cited was an actual much-talked-about and widely-held view from amongst the people that like to criticize every little thing Miami does.
But now you're talking about Chad Pennington versus Matt Ryan? How is that even relevant in any way whatsoever? Not very many people criticized the Gibril Wilson signing at all. And this Chad Henne converting 3rd downs thing, what is this nonsense? It's not even topical, you're just taking arguments that you've had with somebody, anyone, where you feel you ended up right, and then tossing them out there. Who talked about Ricky's fumbling? That was never any kind of hot issue whatsoever.
The only relevant ones you brought up were the criticisms of Pat Turner (which may or may not continue to be justified) and Pat White (which also may or may not continue to be justified).
At least when I brought up examples of popular criticisms that turned out to be more than a little bit dumb, I wasn't just limiting myself to a personal crusade of showing that I've been right about everything, always. In fact, I included at least one criticism (Brian Hartline) that I myself leveled at the team and was shown to be misguided.
As for more examples I could bring up of popular criticisms that have proved to be a little dumb, how about the criticisms of Channing Crowder to the point where people tried to say that Akin Ayodele and Reggie Torbor are better (especially in coverage)? Every time Channing has been out of the game from last year to this year, his absence has been very noticeable, ESPECIALLY in coverage. How about the criticism that it's stupid to place any hopes on Cameron Wake because he's just a CFL player? How about the original criticism of signing Chad Pennington? There was plenty of that, and I myself was guilty of it to some extent. How about the calls for Lousaka Polite to be cut during the preseason, because he can't lead block? I remember those.
Bottom line is though there is plenty of cheerleading going on, people that get upset whenever they see someone levy any kind of criticism at the team, players or coaches, there is also plenty of naysaying going on, people just blindly criticizing to be contrarian and not really having proper reason. I don't see manipulating the phenomenon into some us-against-everyone mentality where the criticizers hold the wisdom of the world and everyone who argues against them are just blind homers, especially since it's just a convenient guise for your personal crusade to prove you've always been right about everything you've ever argued.
