Midweek Reading

Changes that Would Make a Difference in the Biden Administration

AOC’S NEXT FOUR YEARS

The stock market is overvalued, according to almost every measure dating to 1950

What Foxconn Will Cost Taxpayers

The stock market’s strength tells us less about the true state of the economy than at almost any other time over the last five decades

By one key measure, household income, metro Milwaukee is worse off than it was in 1980

If Wisconsin's Legislature were a business, Republicans would've already been fired

How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon

TRUMP IS TERRIFIED ABOUT GOING TO PRISON AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION, AS HE SHOULD BE

Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America’s Highways

Disappearing Data

Data show these US industries have the most recession proof jobs

The Other Tool Democrats Have to Rein in the Supreme Court

The NFL rewards men who put their hands on women

The current state of the pandemic in five graphs

Republican senator ‘personally benefited from tax change he sought’ (Ron Johnson is a piece of shit)

To Hell With Florida

Science Denial and COVID Conspiracy Theories

Vos, GOP Use Faked Photos Against Opponents

Weekend Reading

‘Rich Mitch’ Bashed In New Republican Lincoln Project Ad As Kentucky Suffers

Guest At Packed Memorial Day Weekend Pool Party Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts

Roberts Upholds COVID-19 Restrictions on Churches, Scolds Kavanaugh

The CDC Finally Released New Guidelines For Offices To Reopen Amid Coronavirus

99 years ago, one of America’s worst acts of racial violence took place in Tulsa

Want to Fix Urban Sprawl? Ditch the Cul-de-Sac

Congress' response to the 2008 financial crisis sparked a decade of inequality and resentment. The US is now repeating that mistake.

Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything

At Least 93 Milwaukee Police Officers Have Been Disciplined For Violating Law

These Hospitals Pinned Their Hopes on Private Management Companies. Now They’re Deeper in Debt.

The NFL All but Admits That Colin Kaepernick Was Right All Along

How to reform American police, according to experts

Mapping Police Violence: Police Accountability Tool

Cities, including D.C, are closing streets to make way for restaurants and pedestrians

Newly Released Transcripts Show Michael Flynn Betrayed the United States

The Curious Case of the People Who Want to “Reopen” America—But Not Wear Masks

Weekend Reading

Amazon Is Thriving Thanks To Taxpayer Dollars
The Mathematicians Who Want To Save Democracy
High Speed Rail Study Shut Down In The Midwest
The NFL's Secret Formula For Saving The U.S. Economy
No, Donald Trump Has Not Made The Economy Great Again
Foxconn's Low Return On State Investment
Bill Helps Real Estate Industry
Massive New Data Set Suggests Economic Inequality Is About To Get Even Worse

Holiday Reading

Why Shopping At Walmart Is No Bargain
Raising The Minimum Wage: Old Shibboleths, New Evidence
Is Service Work Today Worse Than Being A Household Servant?
It's Business That Really Rules Us Now
Thorstein Veblen's Critique Of The American System Of Business
NFL On Defense With Tax Break 
California's Finances Improving Faster Than Expected
Right Vs. Left In The Midwest
After Less Than 20 Years, Atlanta Braves To Get New Stadium

Weekend Reading

Corporate Welfare Grows $154 Billion In Midst Of Government Cuts
How The NFL Fleeces Taxpayers
The Craft Beer Movement
401(K)s Are Replacing Pensions. That's Making Inequality Worse
Why The Level Of Government Debt May Not Matter
Inequality Is A Choice

The NFL: A Bad Lip Reading

The Stuff of (False) Legends

Now that the Tim Tebow saturation has, hopefully, ended, it's time to take a look back at how the "Tebow miracle" was pure public relations, selling a story, hero-making in the most nefariously deceptive form. The latest media blitz to sell advertising, tickets, jerseys, and magazines.

The Denver Broncos were 8 and 8 in the NFL 2011 regular season. A team that won the same amount of games that they lost. Hardly impressive.

The storyline goes - Tim Tebow was responsible for 7 of those victories, almost single-handedly as the legend would have it. But the effectiveness of the Broncos' offense, under the helm of Tebow, has some serious questions. Another example of correlation rather than causation masquerading as serious analysis and fact.

The Broncos had the 25th ranked offense (by points per game, out of 32 total teams) in the NFL, averaging 19 points per game. The Green Bay Packers were the highest scoring offense at 35 points per game. Tim Tebow was the 27th ranked quarterback based on passer rating at 73. Aaron Rodgers was the highest ranked quarterback with a 123 passer rating. Tim Tebow only completed 47 percent of his passes, ranking last in the league. Tom Brady, the leader in this category, completed 71 percent. Tebow also averaged the least amount of passing yards per game (124) in the league. Which also explains Tebow's low average of  6 yards per completion, ranking 26th in the NFL.

This is not to say Tebow has no future as a quarterback, that he can't improve, or that, someday, he might be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. But, based on the numbers, Tebow has neither deserved the accolades being poured upon him nor would it be logical to claim he is among the league's elite quarterbacks.

Let's hope Tebow was taking notes on the quarterback clinic Tom Brady put on in the New England Patriots 45-10 route of Tebow's Denver Broncos on Saturday. That was the type of performance expected of NFL elite quarterbacks, and deserving of praise and envy.

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