Areef Hassan wrote 10,000 or so words about quarterback clutchness.

Let's discuss whether it's real and why Joe Burrow has some evidence that he is, in fact, a very clutch quarterback.

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We're going to dive into this concept that, as you write about extensively,

is largely perhaps a product of creative writing on the part of the media looking for narratives

to create over time about players that have success and this idea that there are some

quarterbacks who may or may not be clutch.

You've done a lot of research on this.

You talked to some other statisticians and did your own analytic approach.

Talk about what inspired this project and how you went about formulating your own methodology

here. Yeah. I mean, first, it's like the off season, right? So I had to come up with something.

But I'd been doing like a little bit of work for, you know, the SB Nation site for the Chargers,

Bolch in the Blue. And one of the things that has been kind of circulating around Justin Herbert

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