03-17-2023, 10:17 AM
(03-17-2023, 10:14 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I mean, isn't the only thing they don't know is the assignment?
So if a play results in a poor result, they're assessing it's bad. Even if the player executed the assignment, it's still a poor result at the end of the day.
What I give PFF credit for is they are watching every snap, which is more than I can say for a great majority of fans (myself included).
Kind of a big deal, isn't it? They are trying to grade an individuals play. How do you do this if you don't know the assignment? In all reality, you can normally figure this stuff out. If you know your variations of coverages, you can figure out roles but there is still a lot of nuance that makes it very difficult. The people doing these grades aren't experts, though. They are part time analysts making low wages. If they watch a play and don't know what happened, they just give it a zero and move on.
You could arrive at a similar conclusion for players just by posting a thread on Reddit (or here, if it is a Bengals player).
