Category: Positions
Stories of the Season: The Revis 10
We’re eight weeks into the season and Darelle Revis is doing something pretty special. The level of play he’s returned to after a 2010 season slowed by early injury is causing people to draw legitimate comparisons to Deion Sanders in his prime. To this point, Revis has been thrown at 33 times. He has allowed [...]
Stories of the Season: Michael Vick, Pro Bowler?
Take a casual glance at the numbers, pretty much any of them, and you’d be inclined to think Vick isn’t playing at the same level as he did in 2010. His team, despite all the preseason hype, is 2-4 and seemingly playing a must-win game every week. He’s already thrown more regular season interceptions (eight) [...]
Stories of the Season – Clay Matthews: Improving on 2010?
Last year, it took outside linebacker Clay Matthews just one game to accumulate three sacks. We are six weeks into the 2011 season, and Matthews is just sitting at two. While some have been quick to defend one of the most well-known players on the Super Bowl defense, others have already decided he isn’t the [...]
Introducing the PFF Passer Rating
A few months back, I took a look at a number of statistics and problems in the way that they are used in a series called Stat Sheet Misconceptions. A number of these dealt with common statistics for quarterbacks, leading to a discussion about the current passer rating and the problems I have with it. At that [...]
Defensive Line Techniques – The Prototypes
The NFL is as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. At its heart, it’s still a game of blocking and tackling. The offense tries to move the ball 10 yards, and 11 guys on defense try to stop them, and over and over we go. So how do we get from [...]
Free Agency 2011 – Defense, Who’s Left?
Yesterday we looked at the offensive players that were left, and within hours of it going live, a number of players were picked up. Coincidence? Completely. But that doesn’t mean I won’t be telling myself I scared teams into making moves on players. . Well my delusional state needs some more material. So right now [...]
Free Agency 2011 – The “All-Available Free Agents” Team
With many of the big names signed to long term contracts, we take a look at some of the best remaining free agents on the open market and what it would look like if they decided to form a team.
Free Agency 2011 – Redskins Over-the-Hill Receivers
During last year’s offseason, the Redskins made some headlines uniting Clinton Portis, Larry Johnson and Willie Parker to fight for carries in training camp. While the three of them have over 20,000 yards rushing combined, Johnson and Parker didn’t make it to the end of September, and Portis was cut prior to the lockout. . [...]
Free Agency 2011 – Rams Nab Mikell
He’s one of the best players in the league that many haven’t even heard of. A safety who had our highest grading last year, and over the past three years. A guy who I never thought I’d see trending on twitter. Quintin Mikell. . As free agency started and the deals trickled through, my No. [...]
Free Agency 2011 – Poz to the Jags
So free agency is underway and we’ve already seen some pretty big moves. Some of them have been quite shocking, and others have been pretty much expected since as long as can be remembered. . And some of them weren’t really on my radar, but then they happened and you can’t help but think, ‘yeah [...]
