TwistofFate Posted October 17, 2018 Posted October 17, 2018 14 hours ago, Thurman#1 said: Eli is still playing. Yes there have been changes, but no, most of the rules protecting QBs were already there. How much has average yards per attempt gone up since that year? In Eli's rookie year, QBs averaged 7.1 yards per attempt. Last year ... oh, oops, 7.0. You're trying to pull the old trick of squeezing the sample size to eliminate outliers. And yeah, squeeze it down to a year or three and you'll eliminate the other examples but you'll also make your whole (dumb) statement even less interesting. "There has never been a QB to do that - not once - in the whole entire storied history of the NFL's ... um ... last three years." Weak, extremely weak, same as comparing him to a QB with 79 career passes and thinking it means anything. Again, thinking you know something this early says more about your poor reasoning processes than it does about Allen. What did Allen do in college? Nothing. He performed poorly against top collegiate talent every time he played against them. Supporting cast was the same argument used for him then...maybe it's not the cast? What do yards per attempt have to do with anything? The frequency of passing and the yardage passed for makes the early 2000s look ancient.
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