T.I.B., the next important stat?
Simmons actually says something funny for the first time in ages:
When Baltimore fans derisively cheered an injured Kyle Boller last week, that made me think of something: Can you imagine any other career in which you could suffer an injury, but because you stink at your job so much, everyone else in your office will start cheering derisively as you’re helped out of the building? Do you ever bounce back from that one? Instead of creating complicated statistics that only like 0.3 percent of the human population can understand, I wish the Football Outsider guys would research stuff like “Effectiveness of shaky quarterbacks in the weeks and months after a T.I.B. (traumatic injury booing).” Now that’s the stuff that would be fascinating. Has any quarterback ever bounced back from that situation before and thrived in front of those same fans?