Post by riczaj01 on Dec 12, 2016 7:52:24 GMT -6
I don't have to take scheme into account(although I do), i'm not paid, nor am I my stating some kind of expertise on the subject. People, such as yourself, profess PFF as some kind of godsend of football enlightenment. But if they don't bother to know what they are doing, ie scheme matters in the NFL you and I both know it, then they are not experts. Actually worse then that they are blissfully ignorant.
It makes their opinions at best as good as mine, and shit at least I know the difference between what a 3-4 DE does and what a 4-3 DE does, what is expected of a MLB in the different systems. At least I know that an OT doesn't have the same job in every scheme. Apparently PFF doesn't. And shit that doesn't even take into consideration that some, take Ulracher, weren't asked to rush the passer much, how do you ever properly grade him if you are grading every MLB the same? How do you grade Bushrod, who's system requires him to push the DE behind the QB the same as a OT who's expected to stonewall his DE? How do you grade a guy like Aaron Donald and Eddie Goldman the same, one is expected to shoot the gap past the OC/OG and penetrate, the other is expected to take on both blocks pushing the OL back allowing the LB's behind him to make plays? You cannot if your grading them ALL THE SAME; but you know all this, you just refuse to admit it b/c it removes validity of PFF>
It's almost like you work for them w/how you blindly defend them.
It's also why I do speak in generalities b/c trying to be specific is pointless, I don't know what each player was expected to do on any given play. But I do have a base idea of what is expected based on 3-4, or in football in general. CB's/S's jobs are to, in general, stop the pass. ILB's in a 3-4, in general, are expected to stop the rush(along w/the DL), OLB's are expected in a 3-4 to rush the passer, and all LB's are going to have to drop into coverage sometimes.
Outside of that there is no way of knowing what each player was expected to do. What they weren't expected to do was give up 114 rushing yards to a team that normally rushes for 83. They shouldn't give up 4.1 ypc to a team that average 3.8( the rb's ran for 4.1 and 5.0!). that 31 extra yards doesn't make up for the 5 extra carries. I know that DB's are expected to make plays on a pass at least occasionally and not let the WR make an uncontested catch and then just tackle him; or worse PI/hold them. I know that the idea is to stop the forward movement of the player w/the ball, and not move them closer to the endzone/first down marker. You don't need to be a paid "expert" to know any of that. You don't need to break down film to know that. And just b/c someone pays you, doesn't mean that your good at what you do, see Marc Trestman and Mel Tucker and Phil Emery.
