If Hollywood has taught us anything over the years, it’s that sequels are hard. Going into 2021, no one would have predicted that Deebo Samuel would have a season for the ages. Now that we’re steamrolling towards the start of training camp in 2022, Levin Black and I wondered what we should expect from Samuel this season in today’s Gold Standard podcast.
The premise of today’s episode was a take-it-or-leave-it scenario where one of us would throw out a statistical milestone that the other would either accept or reject. If you’d be happy with said milestone, you’d take it, but if you thought there was a good chance the player could do better in 2022, you’d leave it.