What strikes me is that most people's opinion is that one of the guys must be a bum. Some people are saying that King is a bum because he didn't kick well before. (Ignore the fact that he had a nagging injury for the past two years, just base your opinion on a subset of all of the facts) Others are saying that Wells is a bum because he didn't give enough effort in practice. (Ignore the fact that the coaches didn't actually say that he wasn't giving everything he could. Ignore that the coach doesn't discuss injuries. Ignore that we don't have enough information to know what was going on.)
I would rather look at good things. King missed a long FG badly, but he had more than enough distance on it. He did decent on kickoffs.
One thing that I think does deserve discussion is that CGC doesn't actually provide any real information. ATL is basically an alphabetical list of all the players who might play in the game. Press conferences are basically marketing talk. If you try to gain any actual insight in what the coach says, you will likely be mistaken. We, or at least I, have gotten used to getting direct answers to direct questions. Now, there aren't any direct answers. There are vague "marketing" statements that lead different people to different understandings about what was actually said. I don't think there is anything wrong with running a team that way, but people shouldn't expect to understand what the team is planning before a game and shouldn't expect to get answers to what went well or what went wrong after the game.
