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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1039058" data-attributes="member: 18006">That's a confusing stat; at first glance, it doesn't seem to make sense.I would assume "air speed" is fairly simple - how fast did the ball travel?But "initial air speed"... logic suggests that it measures how fast the ball was traveling when it left the QB's hand.However, if it only left the passer's hand at 51 MPH, where did it pick up the extra 50% of the energy that boosted it to 75 MPH?Some of these metrics seem to be the sort of thing my wife would cook up for no other reason than to make life a hell of a lot more complicated than it needs to be. This one... I can get this mental image of her drawing it up on a white board and going over it and over and over again.I think I kinda like this guy.</blockquote>

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