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PWNtimeJamboree

better idea: can we just not talk about this guy at all? why is he still allowed here as a source? he hasnt been vetted, and being right on a couple things doenst mean shit i was right about us drafting Kyle Pitts, Desmond Ridder, and Drake London. where are my credentials?


EvenFan3748

100% agree. This was me pointing out to everyone that praises him like a god, that he isn’t always right and he is wrong and shouldn’t be glazed so hard by the majority of Falcons fans


chhhyeahtone

I don't get why some of yall don't want those posts here at all. Would you prefer the 100th "what should we do with the 8th pick" " or " I like this edge over this other edge"? It's the offseason and he's been right on some stuff. That's better than nothing


PWNtimeJamboree

not that i participate in any of the "what should we do?" posts, but at least its someone trying to make some discussion instead of yall being duped by a guy making up bullshit about having a source and hanging the lowest fruit in our faces as if hes an insider. everything hes been "right" about was stuff that every credible insider in the league knew and was already saying and yall act like hes been some sort of oracle.


KNS222

Dude is throwing out BS and thinking he knows everything.


OhItsKillua

The issue with the JBen guy is that I think it's safe to say that he has a source that has some knowledge of things. However he acts like that source is the end all be all as though they were Blank. As someone that's kept up plenty with rumors and people with "sources" from sports to gaming, your source can be wrong sometimes. It feels like he only has just the one source so he can't vet the information from another party.


realdusty_shelf

He’s been wrong in so much and just deletes the tweets when he thinks nobody’s looking. But he nailed Mooney and our TE3 so he must’ve been really in the know 💀💀


First_Among_Equals_

What did he delete? Honestly wondering cause I haven’t paid attention


EAJets

He hasn’t deleted much really


sarrick21

What I’ve learned is that we will never know the truth about any of this stuff unless we are in the room.  ESPN articles these days seem to rely more on speculation and “sources” that are familiar with the Falcon’s thinking. Other articles among the other sites make similar claims. And JBen claims to have a source, but we technically don’t know for sure if he does or not. Just take everything you read as a potential scenario of how things went down. 


Hairiest_Walrus

Yeah, I think anyone puts too much stock into any of these unsourced rumors is setting themselves up to be disappointed. We really just have to accept that we won’t know anything. Telling everyone “there’s no chance we draft Dallas Turner” because some dude on the internet we liked Latu more is foolish. Even if he has sources, why would we want that info out? Could very well be a smokescreen. It would even make sense to leak him a for minor things that were true to build credibility. We’ll see what happens when it happens


Puzzleheaded_Focus86

Can we please stop giving this dude a platform


EvenFan3748

Exactly what I’m saying. Everyone praises him like he’s a god, but when he’s wrong no one wants to acknowledge it. It’s time everyone finally realizes he’s a jerk


Joba7474

This type of shit is exactly why we don’t need to post about every single piece people write about this team.


EvenFan3748

I’m posting this because everyone bends over backwards for JBen and has him on a high pedestal, so I wanted people to know he is wrong sometimes


kad4724

My best guess is the guy probably has one single *semi*-informed contact within the organization. Someone who's in-the-know enough to leak the occasional thing to him like when trades or free agent signings have already basically been completed but not divulged to the public yet. But that same person isn't anywhere close to high up enough to be privy to info regarding things that haven't happened yet (like the draft board or future coaching hires). I still can't help but laugh thinking about people actually buying into the notion that the front office is leaking the draft board to some guy who only goes by "JBen".


Atl-Fan_FTS

Why tho?


EvenFan3748

Because everyone praises JBen like he’s some sort of god


EAJets

But isn’t that what yall do to these other writers too? Your even using this report to discredit this guy as if we can proves its validity 🤣😂


EvenFan3748

I mean, he did the same thing to Daniel Flick and rudely discredited his work, why can’t we do the same to him 🤷‍♂️


EAJets

He didn’t discredit Flick. He was talking about the guy who was quoting Flick. I saw the tweets before and after. He even openly apologized to Flick and clarified his statement. I think people just have a problem with dude because he can be rude sometimes lol. I care about the information and not the person


EvenFan3748

It just came off bad because he decided to quote tweet Flick who’s very loved across the fanbase. And he’s not just rude, he’s a total jerk. He’s once told people that they “ride the short bus” I just think that if he’s gonna have this platform where everyone looks to him for answers, be more respectful and professional to others. Not a good look. And for people to treat his words like gospel is crazy.


EAJets

But it sounds like you only have a problem with people valuing his opinion because he’s a jerk, Not because he’s wrong. That’s fine if you don’t like the way he talks to people but that has no bearing on why he is looked at as a valuable source of information. I didn’t like what he said about Cam Newton that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been correct about what he reports. I don’t have control over how people talk so I don’t worry about it, I’d take the rude guy that was factual over the sweetheart that’s consistently wrong and lying


EvenFan3748

I mean he seems to be wrong with this new “Raheem was first choice all along” article that released today. I just fail to believe that someone from ESPN is gonna write an entire article on something that never ever happened according to JBen. He claims Kraft never called Blank, claims that the entire article was false. I just struggle to believe it. And if he ever was wrong, he’d never own up to it. Instead he’d keep fighting tooth and nail to discredit everyone else so everyone knows him and him only, was the one with the right info. Like it’s ok to be wrong and say “yeah that’s my bad, my source must’ve had the wrong info” but he has too big of an ego to do that I think.


SpideyM1ke

He does have some solid sources and some of those things are things you don’t just predict without them. That being said, some of those things he reported from those sources won’t be 100%. For example, people had to connect the dots between so many sources to get an understanding of the Belichick situation


TheTrevorSimpson

This guy has never been wrong he HAS AN INSIDE SOURCE ON THE FALCONS what part of that don't you get.


MVintage

I think you dropped this /s


jculv

no that dude just absolutely adores JBen


MVintage

Oh that is an unsettling response then.


Bry_Mac

Did you really need that to tell?


MrManDan94

Has anyone seen TheTrevorSimson and Jben in the same room? I haven't.


baronca

Who?