[Cardinal96]

What was meant to be a humorous comparison in line with the thread title has taken a life of its own with people taking the comparison far too seriously and rewriting history to deal with what appears to be cognitive dissonance that a Heiman winner could have had stats comparable to Nunes at some point. This was not meant to be such a of extremely large proportions distraction, so this is my last post on this subject.

[quote author=NYCCardinalFan link=topic=6768.msg51009#msg51009 date=1351657928]
I wasn't the only one who thought Carson Palmer had promise.  Jon Wilner covered Palmer for the LA Times at the time and thought he had potential from the get-go.

Well, that settles it then. If Kawakami (I assume that's who you meant, not Wilner) says so with a decade and a half of hindsight, it must be so despite the fact that he seems to have expressed no such opinions in the original article from Palmer's freshman year (included at your link).
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Let's agree to disagree on this.  I saw promise from the get-go in Carson Palmer.  I vividly remember watching him play his freshman year and thinking how well he was handling himself. 

Now I like Josh Nunes.  I really do.  He has shown great poise in handling questions coming his way on his starting position.  I felt the need to respond to your post because, notwithstanding Carson Palmer's pedestrian start to his career (which didn't really blossom until his senior year), I saw promise in him that I have yet to see in Josh Nunes.

[Cardinal96]

What was meant to be a humorous comparison in line with the thread title has taken a life of its own with people taking the comparison far too seriously and rewriting history to deal with what appears to be cognitive dissonance that a Heiman winner could have had stats comparable to Nunes at some point. This was not meant to be such a of extremely large proportions distraction, so this is my last post on this subject.

[quote author=NYCCardinalFan link=topic=6768.msg51009#msg51009 date=1351657928]
I wasn't the only one who thought Carson Palmer had promise.  Jon Wilner covered Palmer for the LA Times at the time and thought he had potential from the get-go.

Well, that settles it then. If Kawakami (I assume that's who you meant, not Wilner) says so with a decade and a half of hindsight, it must be so despite the fact that he seems to have expressed no such opinions in the original article from Palmer's freshman year (included at your link).
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Let's agree to disagree on this.  I saw promise from the get-go in Carson Palmer.  I vividly remember watching him play his freshman year and thinking how well he was handling himself. 

Now I like Josh Nunes.  I really do.  He has shown great poise in handling questions coming his way on his starting position.  I felt the need to respond to your post because, notwithstanding Carson Palmer's pedestrian start to his career (which didn't really blossom until his senior year), I saw promise in him that I have yet to see in Josh Nunes.