Quote:I could have pointed out the NFL Next Gen Stat about tight coverage. It uses the same shoulder pad chip technology that posts the same cool visuals about acceleration, top speed, ,distance traveled, and route paths that everyone likes. Well it also produces a really cool stat that I believe they call tight coverage %, but it could be close coverage or good coverage I forget exactly it's been a few weeks since I listened to the breakdown. It shows how close a cornerback and wide receiver are to each other at the point of the catch or target. If it is 3 feet or less it is counted as tight coverage, if it's farther then it's not. Really cool use of technology to produce a useful stat to judge what is probably the hardest position to quantify. Well, Ramsey is DEAD LAST among qualified rookies in that stat (well he was when I heard that stat a few weeks ago, maybe he's gotten better during this streak he has had...but no one is arguing how he has played since the Lions game). Tavon Young is leading that stat by the way, and also has very nice traditional stats too.


Can you imagine if I tried to come on here and use that stat to argue that a 4th round rookie most people have never even heard of was actually playing better than Ramsey? These same people who resort to constant attacking of something as useful and mind numblingly simple as a spider chart graph. Nah, no point in bothering to use something like Next Gen Stats around people like that. (They also don't dislike spider charts or think that they are not useful or overly complicated, they dislike that it helps easily show how badly their GM blew it by drafting a guy who is so clearly a terrible athlete when other guys who had great scores at the same position were right there. If Dave had taken an athletic guy with a nice spider chart they would like them, no doubt.)


So yes there was actually plenty more ammo to show that Ramsey had a below average first half, but no one cares about it...unless it lines up with the proper hive mentality.