Cornerback "defeats"

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(07-12-2018, 01:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The individual rankings on PFF are a joke.

They had Dre ranked 112th behind a bunch of scrubs who barely played in 2015 when Dre play 97% of the snaps on a top 3 pass defense and ranked in the top 30 in almost every objective individual pass defense metric like "yards per target", "success rate", and "completion percentage allowed".

Don't know where PFF had him ranked in 2016 but Dre was even better ranking 8th in the league among CBs in "Yards per target".

So many people here called Dre a bust his first two seasons that they refuse to acknowledge that he is now a very good CB.

This was from 2016. Not sure of the exact rankings, but they gave him some love in a few categories.

Quote:GO ROUTE

In backyard football terms, go deep. The go route is designed to get behind the defense for the big play. The ability to take the top off the defense is a key component to any successful offensive attack. The go route is designed both for big yards before the catch and to give the receiver the ability to take it the distance after the catch. For this to work, the line must allow time for receivers to work their way down field. QBs will typical have a five- to seven-step dropback, and the aDOT of these routes is 28.53 yards.


Best CB defending the go route in 2016 (min. six targeted routes); Dre Kirkpatrick, Bengals
Dre Kirkpatrick defended the go route as well as one can possibly do it in 2016. He was targeted nine times on such routes without allowing a catch, and he intercepted two passes (tied for most in NFL). He had the lowest QB rating against, with a 0.0, 39.6 points lower than if a QB just threw an incomplete pass every time. Kirkpatrick was used in multiple coverages when stopping the go route: five times he was in man coverage, either cover-1 or cover-2 man, and four times in zone, twice in cover-6, once in cover-4, and once in cover-3. Both of Kirkpatrick’s interceptions came in zone coverage, while in man he broke up one of five passes with another being incomplete due to an underthrow.