Stewart is signed!

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(Yesterday, 02:39 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Can you let us know how to measure if you are correct? Is it PFF against the run and pass or another source?

You may be correct they are #32, I would just like to know by the criteria used to determine if you are correct.

Officially and definitively? No. But neither can I objectively say that Burrow being a top-3 QB is "correct"... but we have eyes and there's plenty of stats to back up the opinion.

Murphy and Ossai combined for 5.0 sacks last year. (Stewart had 1.5 in college) In 2023, they combined for 4.0 sacks (with Stewart having another 1.5 in college). I am just going go go out on a limb (I feel like this is a safe assumption in this case) and assume that 6.5 combined sacks last year would be the least by any team's top-3 DEs seeing as how even the worst team in the league in sacks still had 28 sacks and there were 49 players who had at least 6.5 sacks on their own last year. Heck, 94 players who had at least 5.0 sacks last year on their own. That's exactly 3 per team on average if you remove us with our 1 (Ossai).

And while Murphy is a solid tackler in a small sample size, Ossai missed 13.2% of his tackles last year and has a career rate of 11.0%, so it's not even like they're both really good tacklers to make up for the lack of sacks.

If you care about PFF at all, neither were in the top-64 edge players (85th and 90th) despite currently being in-line to be our starters.

You put those three up against everyone else's top-3 DEs in one of Bfine's "rate the group" threads and send that around the league and they are dead last.