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Luke Cleared to Play


Leeroy Jenkins PhD

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Not sure why I'm feeding the troll..., but here goes.

He's played all of 32 snaps.  Not even a full 2 quarters. 

Here's what an NFL.com analyst wrote in an article today.  The exclamation point is his.

7 tackles and a sack in 32 snaps.  You add on a few more tackles if he'd played the 2nd half and that would have him near the top in the sacks/game stats.

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player-stat/defense-total-tackles?rate=per-game

But of course, that's a bit meaningless to speculate.  But if Luke's JAX stats = poor play, I'll take plenty more like it.

Following up on what I posted earlier... using data from Sporting Charts, I was able to calculate a tackle / snap ratio and a sack / snap ratio.

Among all linebackers, Luke ranks 8th in terms of tackles per # snaps played (.22 tackles/snap), and 3rd in terms of sacks (.03 sacks/snap) per snaps played.   

At those rates, if he'd played the same # of snaps as say, Thomas Davis (264 snaps), he'd have 58 tackles and 8 sacks.  Tied for first in tackles, and 1st in sacks.

May I please have some more, sir?

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Maybe I should've looked at stats before I complained about Luke's start. I just seem to remember a low PFF grade.

Actually, I shouldn't have bashed you.  You're right about the pretty low PFF grade.  

Part of why I pulled up the stats I did was to show how silly PFF ratings can be sometimes.

 

Ranked 20th among LBs, at 73 overall.  But 7th best in coverage.

CAR Luke Kuechly rank 20   overall  73.0 run defense 44.4   coverage  84.1

    pass rush 77.7

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I'm glad Kuechly is cleared, but I hope it's a true clearing and not a wink-wink deal kind of thing. The Seattle crowd will be loud and the last thing Carolina needs is its MLB getting headaches.

And what exactly is a "wink-wink deal kind of thing"?

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This news makes me happy. Here I thought hookers and blow were going to be my only saving grace on this pathetic Tuesday.


Also, don't feed RahRahCarolina aka 15/PU/KT/whoever he is an alt for. Just let him post his nonsense and pretend that he's that spot on the floor that your foot hits after sex. You feel and know what you just stepped in, but you gotta maintain your cool, so you just slide your foot on the carpet beside it and pretend like it never happened.

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