Originally Posted by 1965southpaw (Post 89617)

I'm a bit worried about the Jags....I know that they are back sliding but their dline absolutely raped our oline last year.....I hope that AC and Ryan Kelly spend their bye week thinking about that......I would love to see them return the favor next week.....with a little bit of Nelson, Glowinski, and Smith loving added to the party....now that would be fun!

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc (Post 89629)

All I know is, the past 2 games have been sheer joy to watch, at least from an offensive perspective. Luck is doing his taxes back there and just killing teams.

I doubt they washed his uniform after Oakland.

Originally Posted by Chaka (Post 89645)

The recent wave of love for our OL has come after playing two bad teams (Raiders and Bills). JAX will present a better challenge from which we can judge our OL's progress.

Originally Posted by Chaka (Post 89645)

The recent wave of love for our OL has come after playing two bad teams (Raiders and Bills). JAX will present a better challenge from which we can judge our OL's progress.

Originally Posted by Chaka (Post 89578)

Agreed - any grading system that isn't completely transparent needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Here's the description that PFF gives of how it's grades are reached, in case anyone was curious:

https://www.profootballfocus.com/pff-player-grades

Basically, their team of "300 plus staff" give a grade to each player of between -2 and +2 on each play, and then they tweak and "normalize" those numbers in some way that makes sense to them, and finally they convert it all onto a 0-100 scale. As Dam points out, subjective input factors HEAVILY in these analyses and, by the way, what makes the -2 to +2 initial scale appropriate to begin with?

People just like this stuff because it attaches a number to a player's performance that give the impression of significance and objectivity, but looking under the hood reveals that it really doesn't and often the PFF numbers simply do not make sense - such as Leonard being ranked behind Vander Esch. These kind of things then generate lots of discussion, which has the unintended effect of boosting PFF's profile even more - so PFF isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Chaka (Post 89578)

People just like this stuff because it attaches a number to a player's performance that give the impression of significance and objectivity, but looking under the hood reveals that it really doesn't and often the PFF numbers simply do not make sense - such as Leonard being ranked behind Vander Esch. .