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How NFL teams ignore basic economics and draft players irrationally

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How NFL teams ignore basic economics and draft players irrationally

Draft picks can be traded, and the success of any one player picked is highly uncertain. Because of that, their data says that in the current trade market, teams are always better off trading down — that is, trading one high pick for multiple lower ones — but many teams become overconfident in their evaluation of one particular player and do the exact opposite: package several low picks for the right to take one player very early.

Tebow and expectations

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Tebow and expectations

If the Broncos lose tomorrow, it doesn’t mean anything about Tim Tebow. It doesn’t mean he sucks, it doesn’t mean he isn’t an NFL QB and it doesn’t take away from what happened last week and all season – it means the Broncos lost on the road to the bye-week-rested No. 1 seed in the AFC. Yeah, losing under those conditions would be humiliating. Come on.

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The Tebow haters, doubters and skeptics will point to Matt Prater, John Fox, Willis McGahee, Demaryius Thomas, “Dancing With the Stars,” bad weather, the Bush tax cuts, gas prices, fracking, Obamacare or gravity for reasons to explain the fact the once-going-nowhere Broncos are 7-1 since the home-schooled pride of Nease High took over John Elway’s alma mater.

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Even the Denver Broncos can’t quite explain the Tim Tebow phenomenon

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Even the Denver Broncos can’t quite explain the Tim Tebow phenomenon

To a man, the Broncos believe this. They can’t explain the Tebow phenomenon, why he is having success despite such unorthodox mechanics. Backup wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said Denver’s season changed when coach John Fox pivoted from Kyle Orton to Tebow during a Week 4 loss to San Diego. Thomas was on the sideline injured, and said that when Tebow went in the game, “I just felt a spark.”