Quote:As you have stated with Fowler, stats are important to be viewed with context.


Although Ramsey might have had a high completion and passer rating against him its important to consider where those completions and yards came from. In the scheme we play the defense is designed around giving up those short underneath routes and to stop the deep passing plays. Ramsey has played his role great apart from a game or two those first 10 games.


Those short underneath routes are a high % pass and probably give QBs a very high QB rating but in reality they are part of pur gameplan on D and do very little damage.



So to summarize, Ramsey had at best 2 bad games in the first 10 games. The rest were good to very good performances from him. His play in the first 10 games was not below average despite the passer rating and %.


Oh yeah he was a great run defender the first 10 games too. One of the best in the league at cornerback in fact.

I'm not going to go back and review every game individually again, but as I have said many times I provided the tool that shows you don't get over a 100 passer rating against simply by allowing a lot of short underneath routes at a high %.

 

We know it's 60% average so let's just keep it simple and say he gave up 3 receptions on 5 targets every game. If that were the case 60 yards per game at an NFL leading 20 ypc (Hogan leads the NFL at 19.2) would get to just barely below Ramsey's 102.4 passer rating. Obviously he wasn't giving up plays like that so maybe it was something like ~35 yards per game and a TD allowed every other game. That averages out to the right passer rating too, but a very high TD rate. And unfortunately the one long busted coverage on Hilton that may or may not have been his fault doesn't skew the total passer rating that much by itself. 

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