mav1234

If the saints have good pass protection you must really like the Panthers pass protection given how much higher their pass block win rate is, how many fewer sacks they've given up, and how much more time our QBs have to throw. (The Panthers are about league average and the Saints are 30th in pass block win rate)

I think he's been playing injured for a few weeks now. He definitely did not look right.

We have a good rookie TE in relatively limited usage, a OROTY candidate in a rookie WR, a rookie made the game-ending pick, and a rookie got us the game winning points. This is more than just Scourton's play imo.

For CPOE, Bryce is still at -0.6 on the season, good for 23rd in the league. He's been good there the last few weeks but was terrible for the weeks before (-2.9, -0.7, +0.1, -6.6, -4.2).

Bearing Seattle is absolutely something this team can do, but you're also right they can lose to anyone, so who knows.

I think you're right. He's apparently had 5 TDs in the last five games. If he tacks on another two or three and totals over 1k, especially if we win the division, I feel like he gets it.

The refs have been insanely inconsistent the last few weeks with DPI. They're definitely letting corners play TMac very physically.

He's got 7 now it looks like (I have last count)... 1k is definitely within reach. https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4685472/tetairoa-mcmillan Hoping he can put up 75ish each of the next two weeks with a TD or three.

We're well below the league average on points per possession, so it isn't just ball control / defense. The reality is our offense, especially our passing offense (rushing is ranked 10th, passing 26th), isn't moving the ball well overall. But hey, we're winning and at least to me we are ahead of schedule as a team (I thought next year was competing for the division).

He's been good at protecting the ball overall the second half of the season it seems.

horn getting DPI for waving a finger and that mfer just tackled someone before the ball was even there, hahaha. also Drake Maye is damn good

how was that not DPI

Part of that may be Bryce's trouble past his first read, though I don't know how those stats look the last few weeks, but he was *terrible* for a while

Thanks for this... Any D numbers yet?

All of our receivers do I think, the play calls aren't bad in that regard. But XL just doesn't seem to care, it sucks. We're lucky Coker has looked so good. Hopefully Horn takes off too!

It'll probably be TMac or Egbuka, depending on the last few weeks.

What else happened at the end of the 2020 season? How did Darnold continue to plague him in Arizona, Miami, Washington? Or could it be that once he was paid... Then things started to change? As to DJ vs TMac, we'll see how it goes. I think you may be underplaying TMac's ability to get separation. He frequently gets open, sometimes very open. He's averaging 2.7 yards of separation this year; DJ averaged 2.6 in 2019, 2.5 in 2020, 2.7 in 2021, and 2.8 in 2022. DJ is faster, but TMac is very fast too. DJ is more explosive but TMac's size gives him real potential to be a true #1. He looks better than DJ did as a rookie, but who knows what'll happen in future seasons.

I don't think things are fixed in the sense of Vegas calling in to the refs to order calls, but either the refs are incredibly incompetent, or they are making calls in non-objective and inconsistent ways. Some of the replay calls have been insane the last couple weeks.

Rico looks like he is playing injured. He isn't hitting holes the same way or running over people anymore. Chuba, however, is dragging people like he always has when healthy. I would like for us to try to get Rico some recovery time if he needs it. Chuba is capable of handling the complete load.

How the heck did Darnold follow Robbie around to Arizona and Miami and Washington to ruin him? C'mon man. Robbie was the problem (Darnold was also a problem in 2021 lol). It's funny cause all I'm doing is saying both DJ and TMac are fuging awesome. As to DJ being perfect for Bryce, I'm not sure, but I would have loved to have still had DJ. We went for TMac because Bryce is pretty inaccurate downfield and you do need to threaten vertically. Tmac has been great there.

This is not what they do, man. If you're going to be a bit of a dick you should really read up on PFF. It does not take "a million stats from each player." Each play is scored by an analyst for every player on the field. There is no stat aggregation and no "stats" at all as we think of them. From the site I linked: "Each player is given a grade of -2 to +2 in 0.5 increments on a given play with 0 generally being the average or “expected” grade... Each position has its own grading rubric so our analysts know how to put a grade on the various expectations for a quarterback on a 10-yard pass beyond the sticks or what the range of grades might look like for a frontside offensive tackle down blocking on a “power” play." And who is doing the grading... "PFF employs over 600 full or part-time analysts, but less than 10% of analysts are trained to the level that they can grade plays. Only the top two to three percent of analysts are on the team of “senior analysts” in charge of finalizing each grade after review." And grades vs stats... "We aren’t grading players based on the yardage they rack up or the stats they collect." So... No... PFF is not aggregating "a million stats from each player from an automated tool" at all. This is not what PFF does.

Robbie fell off a cliff after 2021 - if Darnold was that bad, he would have gone someplace else to find success. He didn't, because he got paid and decided he didn't care anymore. It didn't matter who was throwing him the ball. As to TMac vs DJ... the tape DOESN'T lie... TMac is a great receiver, too. So was / is DJ. As to your 2 yard whatever argument, if it was that big a difference *it would add up* in YAC/R, unless DJ just sucked on 90% of his receptions (he didn't). The reality is they're both elusive dudes, DJ is definitely moreso and faster, but TMac has a much wider catch radius and ability to bring down balls that DJ wouldn't be able to. In only his first year TMac is only 3 ypg less than DJ's career in Carolina. Both are exceptional receivers, despite TMac only being his first season. As to taking a short pass and going 40 yards, TMac has had two passes that I remember where he took a short pass and went ~40 yards. The passes were beyond 2 yards but they weren't the deep bombs he and Young have really started to develop chemistry on too.

You said that PFF is an algorithm that loads lots of data or whatever; it isn't. It is a per-play grading system.

That's not how PFF works. PFF is per-play graded. https://www.pff.com/grades

How many yards has Robbie had since his 1000 yard season? Lol. DJ is a different type of receiver but his time as a panther, he was only 1 yard more YAC/R than TMac has right now as a rookie, and he only had 1 season here with more Y/R than TMac has so far (2020).