If you wanted a lesson on logical fallacies this morning, Stephen A. Smith has you covered when it comes to the Pittsburgh Steelers potentially signing 41-year-old QB Aaron Rodgers. If you want a false dilemma, circular reasoning, and a hasty generalization all in one, here it is via ESPN’s First Take this morning.
“Don’t tell me that the Pittsburgh Steelers can’t use Aaron Rodgers,” Smith said while listing all the Steelers’ QBs since Ben Roethlisberger. “Come on now! Not when I paint that picture of what the Steelers have had. I get what you’re saying. I’m saying almost anything is better than what they’ve had.