Robert Smith

And I still needed to have knee surgery after the year.

And the thing that I said was, you know, if you would pay any amount of money to get your health back if you lost it, then what amount of money is worth the very real chance that you'll lose it?

It was the calculation that was going on in my head.

That's why I left the game when I did.

I'm thinking quite literally, it's better to walk way early than to limp away late.

Well, as you guys have talked about in countless episodes on Freakonomics, you have to be very careful about trying to change one variable in a system without impacting the system in a way that you haven't anticipated.

And ultimately, the market is going to decide where they value players the most and where that money is going to make the most sense for that team.

I'd be interested to see the breakdown.

Number one, is it running backs?

Is it quarterbacks?

You have more quarterbacks that can run the football and they're extremely difficult to stop.

Whether it's Lamar Jackson, even a Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, you're going to have some guys that may distort those numbers.

I mean, some of it's selection bias because the better teams are constructed in a way where they can run the football better.

in the red zone the way they want to.

And then they have the lead.

And so they're going to get more runs that way.

I don't think so.

It goes back to the point of what it takes on a running play.

A lot of people would point to Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry, and those guys are outliers.

Look at what