Earlier this season, someone in an NFL front office opened AIQ+ with a simple ask: compare three quarterbacks.
Then they kept going. Three more names went in, and over one conversation it became a side-by-side look at six starters around the league, covering how each of them processes the game and what each would need from a coaching staff.
That’s a different job from reading one player’s profile, and it’s closer to how personnel decisions actually get made. You’re rarely weighing a player in isolation. You’re weighing him against the guy you already have, or the one on your board in April.
AIQ+ is at its most useful when you bring it the real comparison you’re making. It works from each player’s AIQ profile and years of our work on how athletes learn, so you can lay a position group out next to each other and ask about the differences that matter for your system.
A couple worth trying:
“Compare these quarterbacks side by side. Where do they differ most?”
“What would each of these players need from our staff in year one?”
If you have access to AIQ+ and haven’t opened it in a while, try one of those before your next personnel meeting. If you don’t have it yet, or you’d like someone to walk your staff through it, reply and we’ll set you up.
— Scott
Scott Goldman, Ph.D., is a clinical and performance psychologist and the creator of AIQ. He consults for the Golden State Warriors and has worked with NFL and NBA teams for over two decades.