Is PFF the gold standard?

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(03-18-2023, 08:34 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Without knowing the play called originally by the offense, if and what it was audibled to; as well as the original defense called and what the Mike called to adjust to the offenses adjustments at the line, how can they credibly attribute credit or blunder to any specific player with any authority?

Someone who is a very high level football mind with a lot of exposure to various schemes and the branches of those schemes can usually give you about an 80-90% accurate breakdown to what is happening and PROBABLY should have happened. A lot of it is because there can be sight adjustments on a lot of plays and no one outside the building may know what their calls are on when to make them and then who was wrong potentially when it doesn’t work.

The people who PFF has grading these games aren’t those people. They may know a little about football but they aren’t equipped to make anything close to a definitive call as to what was supposed to occur. Again, it’s a pseudo science that fans get a kick out of but should not be the basis of any really discussion around who is good or not. I think where it has made discussion bad is that people refuse to accept that something so big may in fact be quackery and they essentially decide it’s infallible making some discussions here, and other places, pointless.