Facts vs. Feelings: Reasons to start Olave, bench Brown, and other Week 5 decisions

Have you ever sensed thing truthful profoundly successful your bones that it moved from being a hunch to unequivocal knowing?

Maybe it started arsenic a susurration (or a drumbeat) and slowly, implicit time, arsenic you listened much intimately and further investigated the circumstances, a fervent assuredness began to materialize. One that you could not beryllium dissuaded from trusting, nary substance however galore radical looked astatine you sideways oregon doubted your thought process. Your decision remained indubitable. If this vessel was going down past you were going down with it and Jack and Rose, too.

Conversely, person you ever sat crossed from a person who was likewise steadfast successful a instrumentality that made your caput spin? Not due to the fact that you were compelled by passionate agreement, but due to the fact that they sounded perfectly bananas? The benignant of sentiment that turned you into a "Blinking Guy" meme. One that made you question however idiosyncratic you adore, and respect truthful afloat could perchance reappraisal the information and get astatine specified an out-of-pocket decision.

The archetypal we see conviction. The 2nd we dub delusion. The 2 unrecorded dangerously adjacent to 1 another, seemingly separated lone by position and ego. But there's much to it than that. True condemnation is (or should be) borne retired by an exhaustive magnitude of research. Acquired via fact-checking and dot-connecting, not stumbled upon similar bumper sticker contented or, worse, a persuasive Insta. Delusion, connected the different hand, appears the effect of rosy-colored hearsay. A destination realized retired of desire, alternatively than veracity. Something we devotedly daydreamed.

Both are feelings, but 1 is founded connected facts.

It is that cautiously combed and considered accusation that compels our argument. It is the bedrock of our content and that which urges our guardant motion. Without calculable materials and measurements our stance -- and the motivations down sharing it -- are flimsy astatine champion and selfish astatine worst. One stands connected business. The different isn't lasting astatine all.

We regularly negociate the abstraction betwixt these 2 ideas successful fantasy. Each lineup tweak tin beryllium thought of arsenic a tiny creation betwixt well-informed assurance and Hail-Mary hope. Most of america cognize erstwhile we're tipping 1 mode oregon the other. For example, I stubbornly shoved Jameson Williams into a fewer flex spots, willfully ignoring (despite afloat grasping and adjacent penning about) his deficiency of volume. Interchangeably, I enthusiastically started Ashton Jeanty everywhere, resolute successful my cognition of (after spending overmuch of the summer/month/week crowing about) his imaginable and Week 4 matchup.

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Why Loza expects Jeanty to proceed to basal retired successful Week 5

Liz Loza heaps praise connected Ashton Jeanty's large show against the Bears and previews his Week 5 matchup against the Colts.

Of course, not each well-researched "start" volition beryllium blessed by 33 points. And, undoubtedly, immoderate "sits" volition inactive blow-up benches. That's the deliciously frustrating portion of this crippled that keeps america coming back. The enactment we bash is straight proportional to our surety. It informs our patience and our willingness to fto spell of situations (and players) that nary longer service america (or our teams). Better to suffer with condemnation than beryllium led by delusion. If we hap to win, good past that's further confirmation of our process... and our person.

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