My request for this article's intro is that you do two things. First, hop into your time machine, tuning the arrival point to a year ago, and act like you're an NFL fan. As you check your social media last year, you'll notice Buffalo Bills fans getting ready for a playoff run, and NFL hot takes on how hopelessly bad Bills quarterback Josh Allen is. Yes, he'll make an occasional brilliant play, but those outliers are more than overridden by mistakes the second-year signal caller makes. As you return to the current moment, Allen is considered a top-eight quarterback, and probably higher than that.
A look at the players the Cubs acquired in the Yu Darvish/Victor Caratini trade
