Yeah, lazy, but it's pretty clear if they spent below-market they would be getting roasted no doubt, and if we're being honest, I
was expecting them to spend below market. I thought we needed another year of trying to build via the draft, along with a small number of the kinds of signings we did make, but not this kind of volume this off season.
I already feel sorry for Agholor. He already is being called a bust just because of what his contract is, and even that isn't all together fair considering he isn't the best paid WR in the class. He just got out there early and because of that he is now in everyone's gun sights so he's taking fire.
And I'm OK with saying it's perhaps an over pay, although of course we should wait till we have a season to look back at to lock that in, but nope, today's media and culture wants a judgement before we have the data.
I'm not as OK with the whole "failure to read the market" stuff. It's akin to say you failed to predict tomorrow's DJIA closing price. No one has a time machine. He made some ballsy moves rather than just sitting on his hands, that means risk is involved. We should be happy BB had his pick of the litter and found someone he thinks is a great fit. Hopefully by the end of the season we're so happy with the results we don't need to nit pick contract prices.
Popularity is not a great measure of quality.
There's an old Scandinavian saying:
Eat , a billion flies can't be wrong!
Being a nerd, I can say there is an element of nerd's revenge in analytics. Who needs to know about football, we can come up with a bunch of metrics and a bunch of algorithms and come up with a number and since we can never justify how we got the number with any rigor people just have to believe us.
Speaking of lazy journalism: All you have to do is compare two numbers, the bigger one wins, argument settled.
Human beings are great at comparing pairs of small integers, beyond that they struggle. PFF "scores" provides us with what we can deal with, but not enough to have a strong understanding of reality. There scores are a model of reality, but not a very good one, IMO.