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dzrams
I accept your explanation of analysis being inferences drawn from evidence. I simply said yours failed because you stated a strong conclusion – i.e. Austin’s production didn’t help the offense - without providing much evidence.
It is not good analysis to look at the results of something and conclude that one of the variables did not help without analyzing other important variables. Inferences are fine after analyzing all important elements.
You did a better job of that in response here. However, you’re still missing any analysis on the effect of Foles’ extremely subpar year at QB and nearly all rookie OL. Both of those variables have a huge impact on the passing game.
I simply was suggesting that your argument would have much more credibility if you had of done a better job of stating why it was Austin and Gurley who did not help the offense rather than the variables of QB and OL having the biggest effect.
On the second point, before we can say that Austin has managed to defy the odds, we have to establish what the odds are. It’s not established yet that being 5’8” and 180 lbs gets you injured more frequently in the NFL. If we’re playing the evidence card, we need some here. I’m glad you offer the trend line charts as evidence to support your last point. This improves your analysis. I’d like for you to point me in the direction of where you saw this info. I tend to think that it is common sense if a defense dedicates resources to taking something away, a good OC should be able to exploit that somewhere else.
Austin's "production" in 2015 did not result in an overall improvement in offense from the previous season. That is an irrefutable fact. We can discuss why it didn't, but there is no disputing that it didn't.
You appear to hope to pass the reason off on the variable of the different QB combination, Austin Davis and Shaun Hill vs. Nick Foles and Case Keenum. And I suppose the theory that the offensive line that had a terrible GRob as a rookie, Scott Wells, Davin Joseph, Saffold and Barksdale was in some very meaningful way superior to what will essentially be this year's Oline again, a more experienced GRob, Barnes, Havenstein, Brown and Saffold. If these are variables you believe explain it, you must be exceptionally pessimistic about this season.
Maybe we shouldn't extend him either by that logic.
Football isn't one-on-one basketball, it is the team sport par excellance. Causes and effects are multi-valent. You can gussy it up all you want, the thought process here is horribly reductionist and over-simplistic.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2016 06:43AM by Kind of Blue/Gold.
