Talk:Chris Long (American football)

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[edit] Irrelevant content

So much of this article is made up irrelevant quotes and other crap. This article is going to be ridiculously long if we leave all these stupid draft quotes and stuff.►Chris Nelson^Holla! 23:15, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. just becuase he is in the news from the draft doesn't mean we need to have multiple paragraphs of people's opinions of him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.153.247 (talk) 20:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

You guys should realize the article is becoming really good, really informative, and really accurate. Those are good things, I think. 72.0.36.36 (talk) 04:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

You guys should read these policies: WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:IDONTLIKEIT. 67.137.0.28 (talk) 06:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

And you should read this article, because it blows the way 72.0.36.36 has written it.►Chris Nelson^Holla! 08:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Originally drafted?"

What's the meaning of that? Why "originally drafted?" He's not going to be drafted a second time. Tromboneguy0186 (talk) 00:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

That's not what it's saying. It's not implying he could be drafted again (though actually it is possible at this point) and it's not implying he's not a Ram now. It's just saying that he's currently a Ram, and that he originally entered the league as the second overall pick by the Rams in 2008.►Chris Nelson^Holla! 08:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

"Drafted" by itself doesn't imply that? And without the other implications I mentioned (yes, it's possible he could be drafted again, but when has that ever happened?)? It just sounds goofy, but whatever. Tromboneguy0186 (talk) 11:09, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, but they're both correct. You're just putting emphasis on the wrong part of the sentence. "originally" doesn't go with the word "drafted", it goes with the whole sentence. Player A is a quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the 1987 draft." And so on. "Originally" is just saying when his career began, which sounds better any time but a guy's first year. The thing is, I'm not going around to add it to every guy that's played a year, I'm just making the intros that way now. It even makes sense for a guy that hasn't changed teams. Peyton Manning is a quarterback for the Colts. he was originally drafted by them first overall in 1998.►Chris Nelson^Holla! 11:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

A mediation case has been started on this topic. Please see Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-05-05 Tyrell Johnson (American football) for more discussion on this subject. 67.137.0.28 (talk) 00:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC)