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Evaluating the QB by his relationship with the TE position

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  The greatest TE QB of all time just so happens to be the greatest QB of all time. Among the countless accolades he amassed during his mythical career, I would like to add another career record which DWARFS his competitors. Tom Brady has 100 career touchdown passes to the Tight End position, second in that stat is Rivers with 42.  Last year when analysts marveled at the short timing excellence of Tua, I got nervous. You see, it is all gravy when you can go through two reads and release before the timing gap expires, but once it expires the QB is forced to buy time. Buy time with pocket presence, buy time with athleticism, buy time with poise. The complete TE lives his pass catching career during this window of time. I feel it is important to qualify “a complete TE” so lets use metrics. Qualifications  Must be Good or above at both blocking and passing. PFF grades above 60 in both. A TE that can’t block is a slow WR, and a TE that can’t pass-catch is a small offensive lin...

NCAA vs Alston

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  MUST READ. Kavanaugh Concurring Conclusion. “….The NCAA nonetheless asserts that its compensation  rules are pro-competitive because those rules help define the product of college sports. Specifically, the NCAA says that  colleges may decline to pay student athletes because the de fining feature of college sports, according to the NCAA, is  that the student athletes are not paid.  In my view, that argument is circular and unpersuasive.  The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise  the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly il legal in almost any other industry in America. All of the  restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’  wages on the theory that “customers prefer” to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’  salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a “love of the law.” Hospitals cannot...