JohnThomas
1yr ago
I’d like to see some data and a large sample. And only looking at Jackson, his QBR has been meh the last three years while his YPC have fluctuated from 6.3 to 5.8 to 6.8.
JohnThomas
1yr ago
No one said otherwise, above. But it’s not impossible — Peyton Manning’s 2015-16 salary was $18M (high for that year), and he was cooked in his final season. (I hope he still thanks Von Miller for that last ring).
JohnThomas
1yr ago
That’s fair. But I also think that since the advent of the zone read, any QB that can average even say 5 YPC and 6-10 carries a game gives his offense an extra man in the run game.
With any contract, teams want to pay for future performance and I think there’s consensus Jackson’s demands are optimistic. At the same time, even if he regresses on the ground he has some room to fall before he’s no longer effective.
https://www.fantasypoints.com/nfl/articles/season/2021/mobile-quarterbacks-and-injury-rates#/
The claim that mobile quarterbacks are more injury prone is unsubstantiated at best.
Dumb luck and how good a team’s offensive line is at pass protection are where I’d put my concern.
My mind immediately goes to Cincinnati’s brass knowingly rolling the dice on a suspect front five in 2020 and having to watch a guard’s fuckup result in their franchise QB’s knee getting imploded.
JohnThomas
1yr ago
I might be getting to granular, but doesn’t this need to extend beyond just occupation? One of my very good friends is a very financially successful tradesman with only a high school degree and hailing from a very poor neighborhood, who is a member of the same private club as my wife and I, and lives in a very nice home in our posh neighborhood that he restored, himself. His daughters attend a good private school, etc.
JohnThomas
1yr ago
He also is pretty stubbornly wrong about new construction raising rents in adjacent properties. The body of academic research in the last 5-10 years has produced results that range from “maybe only a little” to “not at all”. And the one study I know of that even attempted to use a control group backs this up. But “new development bad” is a DSA shibboleth he can’t seem to shake.
JohnThomas
1yr ago
Learned of the Mattachine Society earlier this morning, while reading James Kirchick’s Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Really enjoying the book.
The 30+ zero blitz game was a wonderful bit of daring and ingenuity from Flores, and it was surprising it continued to work immediately after the half, but I’m not so sure I agree it was some huge catalyst. Baltimore did finally adjust before that game was over.
281 YPG passing before that Dolphins game, 275 YPG from that game on for the rest of ‘21.
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