(03-16-2022, 08:10 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: All those prospects with great Spyder charts that turned out to be total busts is why many of us "smooth-brained" ppl still watch football players play football in addition to digesting stats and analytics to form our opinions. 
Despite your narrow perspective on what "pretty much everyone in the football community" loves or doesn't love. 

You rely on statistical data more than most around here and by now should be accustomed to the aversion to that approach. 

Also - Choosing a gatur player as an example is not going to show much objectivity given the rampant bias to that college program in this fanbase. Of course many illogically defended him.

1. Being a great athlete does not guarantee you will be a great player, but there are very few great players who are not great athletes. Good time to bring up that old 3 sigma quote.

2. You should have seen the excitement among the draft community last night when the charts were posted. I saw hundreds of people posting them with excitment showing how good or worriesome X guy was. I didn't see a single person stigmatizing them like so many do here. Probably because there is nothing to stigmatize it's just pure data in a nifty visual, as I said. This is the only place where you will see people tying their emotions to them.

3. I chose Fowler because he was the example that was the main litmus test for the charts on here, because he was a great example of how novices think 40 time for an EDGE means they are freak athletes when that's obviously not the case and also because he was the main name that we all knew the Jags were targeting.

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