I am not doing the "is X type and that's who he is" thing.
I already said the list can change annually.
Because it's not a "talent type and level" measure, it's sheer and pure production.
A guy can hit it one year and not another.
I am speaking Spanish, you are speaking German, and your objections all amount to you saying "your German is not very good." Yeah. It's Spanish.
Also, unlike you, I am sometimes skeptical of doing averages of different seasons all taken together. To me that can be misleading. It can negate context. Either way it doesn't matter, because of course 84/980 is damm close enough anyway.
Now it gets down to this. As I said I am speaking an entirely different language on this. I want to counter-balance the "he's a #1, he's a #2, he's a #3" routine with something different. Rather than just do talent types or (often misleading) averages of all seasons combined, I point out---and it is just true--that many guys who get written off as "#2 types" can come through in the right time and place, when used right, to get the minimal standard production I am pointing to. Probably the difference is a completely unmeasurable level of will, desire, dedication, work, and experience plus offensive coaches who see how to maximize the guy and rely on him.
It gets us off of strict and dogmatic typecasting. Opens the discussion up.
As I also said (though it got deleted) I have been making this same argument since 2008. That year (on a different board) there was a heavy and often contentious discussion about whether a team needs a #1 WR. All the people saying yes or no simply meant by "#1" something like elite, or a star--it was a talent type and level. I looked at offenses all over the league and said we should shift the discussion to sheer production, because there are guys who get written off as average talent who in the right situation are capable of having seasons where they become a team's top receiver. That's when I came up with the minimal standard (which, yes, is flexible...I am not going to be strictly dogmatic about the difference between 1000 and 980 yards. I don't see the point in that.)
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2017 09:40AM by zn.