(05-22-2024, 08:10 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-22-2024, 07:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Of course it matters.  That's a given.  What I'm trying to discuss with you is, should it matter as much as it does, and can there be a future system where it matters less than it does now?

Yes, if you stretch out the timescale of your analysis to the scale of an entire football career from pee-wee on, and if you imagine that the parents of a talented child have perfect control of that child and perfect rational understanding of that child's prospects, interests, and likely adult height and build, and if you assume that those perfectly rational and perfectly informed parents are strong willed and able to overrule the coach who will always want that man among boys to play RB, you will see something like a free market action where the supply of running backs reacts to the demand for running backs.

Other than that it ain't happening.  The market ain't free jack.  It's managed end to end.  Let's be rational and shift the conversation to how to manage it better.

The RB who is not quite good enough to make an NFL team, he's taking a beating in college, then not taking a beating in the NFL, and not getting NFL money, and nothing has changed for him. 

The RB who is good enough to make an NFL team, he takes a beating in college, takes a beating in the NFL, then is out, but unless he gets a second contract, his pay will never be based on his actual NFL performance, only based on what a GM thought his performance might be in the year he was drafted.  That's not rational, it hurts the product on the field, and it's unfair to the guys actually taking the beating on the field.

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That's nonsense.  The Jags are a much better team when ETN is healthy and available.

Yes, let's be rational.

There isn't anything to fix. It's being managed just fine.