Lifeline Leagemates, Managing Outliers, & Dynasty Trades

All right, last week we were talking a bit about some, what was it, some trades that I think maybe... brought up the tight end discussion around Drew Petzing and how he prioritizes tight ends or has a higher tight end target share than other maybe play callers.

That was kind of what we were talking about and around.

And Jake was asking maybe for a little bit more detail and maybe some data behind that.

And so Pulled it up from my database, which is grabbing the play-by-play data and aggregating all these different metrics.

So for Petsing, I mean, he hasn't been a play caller that long.

So that's part of the problem.

His last stint before becoming a play caller was... being a tight ends coach.

So I do think that is kind of, you know, I wouldn't say important, but it's a factor it's worth knowing at least.

And then once he became a play caller, the percentage of targets to the tight end position, starting from 2023, forward were uh 32.7 34 and 35.3 which are relatively high for sure and so if we want to just pull up a list of play callers well this is the top 20 basically this is the top 20 by target uh tight end target share and the data could go as far back as i think 2016 so you Petzing ranks sixth overall in that time period.

His 2025 season, 35.3% of the targets to the tight end position.

And then he's also in there at eighth overall.

And that was also 2024.

So 2024, 2025 are two of the higher seasons we've seen in terms of that target share.

But again, I don't know how... or what that's really telling us, given the fact that his entire career as a play caller has been with pretty damn good tight ends.

So it could, you know, it's the chicken or the egg.

Like, what is it? Now he gets another decent tight end, so I think it's reasonable to think that he would utilize him.

Now, are we getting another Trey McBride? Obviously, I don't think anybody believes that.

So, yeah, I mean, I do think that there is, you know, at least some indication that he prioritizes the position at some level.

But I don't think we have enough to say, you know, for certain that that's just like a staple of his play calling, right? It could have to do with the players on the field.

So, yeah, I don't know.

What do you think about that, Jake?

Yeah, that was just going to be my initial pushback is that I think it has a lot to do with circumstance around those players and,

you know,

being able to call plays with Trey McBride is slightly different than calling plays with Sam Laporta coming off of his vertebrae injury.

And so...