Stephen Dubner
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14,303 appearances
95 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
Stephen Dubner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that luxury.
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That's because you don't have these future NFL players from the time they were eight or nine and all the data on them.
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Is that why?
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Yeah, number one,
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a tradition in soccer that we don't have in American football.
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Let's assume that that tradition doesn't start in American football.
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In other words, let's assume that the
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The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys aren't starting youth academies where children are starting from the age of seven, eight, nine.
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What can you do to establish a firmer pathway like the one you're describing for the NFL?
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in your view, if you could gather as much data as is possible on Brock Purdy's life and career—physical, strategic—
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behavioral, cognitive, et cetera, and go back as far as you could, what do you suspect that you'd find in the data that was essentially overlooked by 31 teams?
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that.
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I see that Kitman Labs also does some work with the U.S.
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military, more than $4 million in defense contracts over the past several years.
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Tell me about that.
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I learned a lot today from Stephen Smith, Scott Goldman, Dan Hatman, and Kurt Warner, and I'm guessing you did too.
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But still, there are some big questions.
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Like, will NFL teams finally learn to identify which college quarterbacks will become good pro quarterbacks?
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It's one thing to overinvest in a college superstar who turns out to be a bust in the NFL.
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But what about the other scenario, the Kurt Warner scenario, where a quarterback who turns out to be world-class was passed over by every team in the league?
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