I'm certainly not going to argue with you about which statistics you choose to believe, although disbelieving independent statistics that challenge your predisposed beliefs is a pretty good operational indication of prejudice.
If you think that that's an indication of prejudice, then how about relying on measurements that Woodhead himself has acknowledged are bogus?
Again, I'm not accusing anyone of racial prejudice in this matter, although that certainly may be a direct or indirect factor for some folks.
Or how about underhandedly dropping the race card in spectacular "I'm not accusing anyone of racism, but it certainly seems like racism may be at play here" fashion? For the record, every 'criticism' (if you can even call it that) that I've leveled at Woodhead applies equally to Darren Sproles, so you're going to have to do better than that.
I hope I've adequately addressed the denialism about the Football Outsiders numbers. Remember, I didn't cherry pick FO, and they're an inherently objective site that is not part of some pro-Woodhead conspiracy.
You haven't addressed it. As I pointed out, a Patriots RB has led the league in DVOA among RBs with <100 carries for each of the past 4 years, whether it was Morris, Faulk, or now Woodhead. There's clearly another variable at work here that you're blind to, and it's pretty obvious what it is. FO stats are not turnkey: they do not account for system/scheme, and I know this from the extended conversation that I had with Aaron Schatz on the matter. In case you don't recognize the name, he would be the guy who runs FO, and who invented the statistics that you're citing.
Your argument about salaries is another interesting red herring.
How is it a red herring? Ice Ice Brady said that GMs value guys like Danny Woodhead and Kevin Faulk more than they value guys like Ladainian Tomlinson. I used their actual salaries to prove that he was wrong. Accusing me of anything else is just putting words into my mouth, which frankly is pretty much all that you've done up to this point.
Woodhead was cut by the Jets. He was undrafted. He was unable to get a Division 1 scholarship.
Which is why I compared LT's salary to Faulk's instead. Established player to established player.
He's always proven his detractors wrong. Now, in the NFL, with limited touches, he's a top 5 producer at running back according to the most respected independent statistical system publicly accessible. But you could pick him up off the waiver wire, and sign him for a song.
That's not exactly what FO is saying. Once again, I think you've overestimated your understanding of FO statistics considerably. My understanding of DVOA and DYAR, based on the knowledge that I've gained reading the FO Almanac cover to cover every year, is quite different.
Danny Woodhead has always been underrated, and everything I can see says that's continuing. But I'll bet that at some point soon it'll become undeniable that the little guy really is something special.
Nobody's claimed otherwise.
