Gang Green Nation Feb 1, 2023
FiveThirtyEight ranks Garrett Wilson as top 20 wide receiver in 2022
JAMIE GERMANO / USA TODAY NETWORK With the second of their three first round picks in the 2022 NFL draft, the New York Jets selected wide receiver Garrett Wilson from Ohio State. At the time, Wilson entered into a wide receiver room that was rather wide open, headlined by names such as Elijah Moore and Corey Davis who were productive in 2021 but hardly game changing talents. Accordingly, Jets fans’ hopes for Wilson were rather high (not unlike many other Jets draft picks over the few seasons). What stands Wilson apart from other Jets’ draft picks in recent years is...
Gang Green Nation Jan 12, 2023
New York Jets and the Sunk Cost Fallacy: Should Corey Davis stay or go?
Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Within psychology, the sunk cost fallacy puts forth that individuals are less willing to alter a strategy or decision when they have heavily invested in it. Importantly, this holds even when altering said strategy or decision may be beneficial. We often like to think NFL decision makers are immune to such emotionally driven decisions, but at the end of the day these decision makers are human and because of that they just as able to fall prey to these kinds of biases as you or I. Accordingly, I thought it would be interesting to work...
