Want to see why you never trust PFF grades?

[ncfan]

Reminds me when they slid Matt Kalil as a high grade

[joemac]

LOL wow.  

[Pantherxtreme]

2 minutes ago, ncfan said:

Reminds me when they slid Matt Kalil as a high grade

That's laughable. 

[run-run-pass-punt]

Many things can't be reduced to a number, despite how some feel.

[hepcat]

Is Paradis graded on how well he snaps the ball too? 

[mav1234]

It's so hard to know who the blame on the OL given how bad they seem to look as a unit.

But how theres 2 of em in our top 5....

I swear whomever grades our plays does it drunk.

[Snake]

Remember when that guy was like show me your stats. Well... 

[Moose Hoover]

Pfft grade are like fantasy football touts writeups...uhhh yeah here are the guys I'd target this game...and then they proceed to list every single fuggin player from every single game. the info product space is all a scam. For $299 a season, I'll tell you how the browns are 7th in the league in scoring bandanas and rank 14th in average air quality measurements per snap.

[w280sax]

They graded Paradis high for not holding on all the plays he got beaten on.

[Ricky Spanish]

[mwright350]

There's probably some long, arcane explanation for why Paradis was *technically* playing his position correctly while he was being thrown back into Sam's lap like a toddler.  Us mere mortals just can't comprehend the wizardry the folks at PFF use to see who is *really* good.  It's our fault, really.

[Waldo]

Can we just ban PFF on the Hudle and not contribute to their crap product?

[LinvilleGorge]

I don't know how their grading system works but they're so high on it that they refuse to adapt it for when it gives them a clearly flawed result. Hell, they might be crediting him for a plus play on the plays where he's in good position but gets forklifted into Darnold's lap because from a technical perspective he did do his job. He was just physically incapable of carrying out the task. Which is one helluva flawed grading system if that's how they're rationalizing his grade.

[BrianS]

I think the fact that these grades are available SO QUICKLY after gameday should be an inkling of how much thought goes into them.  There is no way someone watches every play, focused on one and only one player to accurately grade them, for every team in the league, by the next day. 

That's a MINIMUM of 11 winds of one play, and honestly, it should probably take at least two to three times that to understand what a given players assignment on any given play may have been.  What's more, you may need to understand what the other players were supposed to do.  Was the back supposed to chip there?  Maybe the tight end?  Little stuff like that could make a mountain of difference to how a tackle might set up to play a snap.  

I'd be a lot more interested in seeing Panthers staff grades for our players, but obviously that will never happen.