[poulsbohemian]

Their first field is sports... now, they aren't wrong in that if you are the last player at the end of the bench on an NFL team, you are still a really amazing athlete and still going to get paid well. What strikes me though is the number of "just ok" players, especially quarterbacks, who get paid as though they are a future hall-of-famer... and then fall very, very flat. Case in point - Zach Wilson had a big pro day that built up his hype, and thus got drafted high, but has been outplayed by no-name guys. A non-quarterback, Jadevon Clowney, had a monster hit in a college game that garnered significant interest - but frankly, a pretty pedestrian career. I could probably cite about ten more quarterbacks who got paid big money as though they were going to be superstars, but ended up being middling players and had relatively short careers. Somebody like a Brock Osweiler comes to mind - it was the sports equivalent of a pump-and-dump. I would argue that these players are the equivalent of thriving on BS - they had a moment or they had a hype machine around them, but didn't deliver the goods.