Thinking Analytically

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With NFL football season starting up this weekend (way to go Packers and Aaron Rodgers!), it’s hard not to think about all that cash floating around on the field trying to avoid injury. I don’t know the details of Tom Brady’s unfortunate injury but the it’s hard not to think about the danger QBs face when a few hundred pounds of meat eating muscle is rushing towards them — especially from the blind side.

I enjoyed reading The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis last year after I read Moneyball. Though the story is about a particular athelete, Lewis starts by discussing the importance of the left tackle position and why it is one of the highest paid in the NFL.

Here’s some interesting arm chair analysis to support that claim.