Finally getting some legitimate analysis of Kirkpatrick's play in '15

[Essex Johnson]

(08-02-2016, 08:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Where did we learn that "He ain't very good."?

Looks to me like he is probably top 20 in both "yards per target" and "Completion percentage allowed".  And he is top 10 in tackles by a CB.

That is pretty good.

The problem with people who try to judge their own team players against the rest of the NFL is they pretty watch the play of that player at a high percentage  and tend to just remember bad plays more than good plays plus they watch other players in the NFL very little or only on the highlight wheel of the NFL that is usually showing good plays by players.

Stats do help with shaping the overall performance of a player and take away a bit of the narrow perspection fans have on their own players at times.  What you have presented is a solid argument that Dre is not a terrible corner, had areas where he was a decent player and areas where he needs to improve but to try to rank him at the bottom of corner play last year seems like a flawed position.