2024 Defensive Personnel Failures

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(12-02-2024, 05:05 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: And on top of that...

Our C is getting old and isn't very good. Our TEs are all exclusively binary options of either receiving OR blocking (and they're all going to be in their age 29, 30, or 31 seasons next year... or coming off their 2nd ACL tear in 14 months). We have the 27th rush offense (20th in ypc) with the 30th most first downs from rushing so we have the overwhelming desire to throw it with 1 or 2 yards (often deep balls) to go or when we're inside the 5. Not to mention that we will have exactly 1 starting caliber WR on the roster next year.

OH, and our offense just doesn't work for the first 2 weeks of the year. Every year.

Burrow/Chase/Higgins has been covering up a lot of stink.

FWIW, here are the rankings of each of our starters according to PFF:
Karras - 27th among Cs
Volson - 54th among OGs
Cappa - 67th among OGs
OBJ - 61st among OTs
Mims - 60th among OTs

Burrow - 2nd among QBs

Higgins - 4th among WRs
Chase - 17th among WRs
Gesicki - 21st among TEs
Brown - 21st among RBs
Iosivas - 116th among WRs

Dax Hill - 41st among CBs
Turner - 46th among CBs
Hilton - 48th among CBs
CTB - 76th among CBs (might how far he's fallen since September)

Stone - 88th among SAFs
Bell - 67th among SAFs

Pratt - 53rd among LBs
Wilson - 18th among LBs

Hendrickson - 9th among EDGE
Hubbard - 73rd among EDGE
BJ Hill - 27th among IDL
Rankins - 76th among IDL
Jenkins - 94th among IDL
Ossai and Murphy, worse than 75th among EDGE.

Bolded/italicized are the ones doing well/solid.