PFF info I found interesting

[csx]

Huh?  From all I have heard, Greg Robinson has played extremely well so far in St. Louis.  He didn't start right away but once he got onto the field looked like the real deal.

 

 

 

Robinson was moved to LG but is playing fairly well.

[BuffaloBills62]

PFF ratings are to be looked at in a vacuum only.  Otherwise they don't hold up.  Specifically with non skillset positions.

 

Anyone who has watched D'Bricksaw Ferguson this year can see how the OL is thought of; he'll make the Pro Bowl on his name alone but he has been nothing but garbage and on the verge of being benched.

[LinvilleGorge]

Definitely worth the risk if the Vikings would sell low, but who knows if they're ready to give up on him yet.

 

This.  I'd be all for bringing him here, but as bad as he's been for the Vikes so far, the asking price would have to be mighty low.

[TonyN]

PFF ratings are to be looked at in a vacuum only.  Otherwise they don't hold up.  Specifically with non skillset positions.

 

Anyone who has watched D'Bricksaw Ferguson this year can see how the OL is thought of; he'll make the Pro Bowl on his name alone but he has been nothing but garbage and on the verge of being benched.

 

Think how long it takes an NFL staff to analyze game film.

 

PFF comes out with rankings for every player in the entire league a few hours after all the games end...

 

Right.

 

[BuffaloBills62]

Think how long it takes an NFL staff to analyze game film.

 

PFF comes out with rankings for every player in the entire league a few hours after all the games end...

 

Right.

 

 

I knew someone out of college who did an internship for ______ rating players.  He played hockey in High School, watched football but knew very little but for his internship would watch game film and was given a sheet to watch 15-20 players after games.

 

Well, first let me back up.  When he first started there he had to record games and then chop them up to short segments for review.

 

Anyway, after a while of that he was now the one reviewing those films and grading players.  Might be a few OL, an RB, some WR's and a DB all in the same game.  He would assign grades per play and then have a formula to give them a grade at the end from all of this.  The grade - well, he didn't know much about football, but by the time he graded out it was amazing it seemed to come out about on point for the common belief.

 

From what he and I discussed the grading system was fool proof and designed to extract certain data.

[AceBoogie]

Think how long it takes an NFL staff to analyze game film.

PFF comes out with rankings for every player in the entire league a few hours after all the games end...

Right.

You knock it because it fits your narrative. fug pff, it doesn't take an analyst to see that Bell is one of the worst tackles in the game. The sad thing is that he was one of the worst tackles last year, and Gettleman with all his expertise decided to put him on Cam's blindside.

[Ruff]

You knock it because it fits your narrative. fug pff, it doesn't take an analyst to see that Bell is one of the worst tackles in the game. The sad thing is that he was one of the worst tackles last year, and Gettleman with all his expertise decided to put him on Cam's blindside.

This.

It's pretty obvious that Bell sucks after watching no more than 5 plays.

[BuffaloBills62]

You knock it because it fits your narrative. fug pff, it doesn't take an analyst to see that Bell is one of the worst tackles in the game. The sad thing is that he was one of the worst tackles last year, and Gettleman with all his expertise decided to put him on Cam's blindside.

 

No, he knocks it for its scientific purpose.  It is one thing if a former coach or player gives an opinion or dissects a player but when PFF, Walter Football or other sites do this it has to be taken with a dose of reality.

 

The metrics these sites use may be accurate or show some sort of respectable outcome but they are far from faulty and the principles used to get these measurements are hardly scientific or expert.

[SCP]

Agree with not gambling a first rounder on an OT....

However, a couple of selections in rounds 2-5 from legit college football programs*** this season might be nice.

***please stop drafting "project players with big potential"

Your two points enclosed by *** are so spot on they made me forget to wipe. What the fug is up with our organization and drafting small school guys or drafting a QB to play WR? It's like they are trying to be some nutty professor that is going to outsmart the world by finding diamonds in the rough. Just pick players that have played against real competition and keep them at the position they excelled at damnit!!!!!!!!

[LinvilleGorge]

The only thing I found remotely surprising about these rankings is that they weren't #33 and #34.