Quote:That's what the average fan wants and that's fine but it doesn't give you an idea of how a player is doing. Plus, if you're used to watching a Vinny Manuwai type and then you go and watch say, Zane Beadles, it can get a little ugly. The whiffs are probably the easiest things to catch but everybody whiffs probably once a game, it just happens. I do remember those threads you did and I always enjoyed reading them. Maybe you and I can do a joint thread for a game this year?

 

 

 

If you use it right, it can teach you to stay humble and hungry. And you have to have those two things in order to get better. If you can give yourself an evaluation with a truly clear eye and see what you did wrong without getting down on yourself and what you did right without getting too full of yourself, you can grow so much in a very little amount of time. I truly believe that.

 

 

 

Oh I know and I wasn't trying to insult or talk down to anyone with that way too wordy post. Those are just things that I picked up over time and I thought I'd share. Besides, if I didn't how else would folks know how smart I am? :whistling:

 

Without knowing chips, pulls, zone steps, etc... it's easy to make mistakes trying to grade guys.  It's why I take PFF with a grain of salt or more.  I don't get the feeling from their writeups that they have good knowledge of (from experience) the interior positions.  Because without knowing the assignments, sometimes you can be lead to the wrong conclusion.

 

A lot of times, a play can be blown up simply because the QB didn't make the right read and get them out of the play.  If a defender crashes down hard enough on a pulling guard, there's nothing good that can happen even if everyone did their job as expected.  Sometimes linemen don't communicate well, expecting each other to take the same guy and no one ending up being on him at all... all because both assumed assignment and neither bothered to check with the other.  There are other times when all you need for a "win" is to get your hat inside the guy.  And other times, you may see a lineman making a pancake at the second level and think it's a great play, right?  Not if he passed his assignment and plowed the wrong guy into the turf, while the guy he should have pancaked just made the play.

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