This is not really that hard. Marquis was appoximately average during a two year period where his peripheral stats said that he should probably be worse than average, and trended downward from those years into last year, which was an abomination that could have been predicted from his poor peripheral stats. This year, people are using those poor peripherals, along with a year of flat out sucking, to predict further sucking. Why is this offensive? And furthermore, why are some of you guys so dead set against these projections. It's been duly noted that while the correlation isn't one to one, there is , however, a very notable correlation with some of these stats, most of which point to general sucking on the part of Marquis. Therefore, those of us that believe in the predictive power of statistics, while we would like to believe that Marquis won't suck, are mostly resigned to the fact that his past performances indicate that sucking is very likely.