Comments on: Are First Round Quarterbacks Starting Earlier? http://www.footballperspective.com/are-first-round-quarterbacks-starting-earlier/ NFL History and Stats Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: James http://www.footballperspective.com/are-first-round-quarterbacks-starting-earlier/#comment-153421 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:52:09 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=19884#comment-153421 In reply to James W.

It’s such a big cause and effect problem. Did the rookie not start immediately because he wasn’t ready and needed time to get better, or because he wasn’t ready and never got better, or because he had a good starter ahead of him?

Did a player start right away because he was good from the start, because the team had no better option, or because that’s the best way to learn?

Only half of those 6 scenarios are informative, but it’d be hard to separate to figure out which case is which, especially to differentiate between bad at start and got better/bad at start and never got better.

]]> By: Ed Knizewski http://www.footballperspective.com/are-first-round-quarterbacks-starting-earlier/#comment-122415 Wed, 28 May 2014 21:57:26 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=19884#comment-122415 In reply to Ed Knizewski.

I just noticed that you have a footnote about Kelly being in the USFL. However, it is still incorrect to state that the Bills ‘redshirted’ Kelly for 3 seasons. He wasn’t on their roster for any of those games. His situation is so unique that you should probably just exclude him from the data set.

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