09-02-2018, 10:31 AM
(09-01-2018, 10:36 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: It’s not. In their primes, you have an argument but right now, Donald is certainly better. Donald had 20+ more pressures last season and is just as dominant as Geno (if not slightly better) in the run game.
If there are other factors that make you prefer Geno over Donald, then that is fine. However, their play on the field is quantifiable and Donald is simply better.
Geno had 46 tackles and 9 sacks last year.
Donald had 41 tackles and 11 sacks.
The last 3 years Donald has 30 sacks and Geno has 29.
And the Bengals re-upped Geno for 6 mil less per year, that's a deal comparatively.
QB pressures are not a quantifiable stat because there are no results of what that pressure lead to. If you got pressure on the QB but he completed a pass, that particular pressure was meaningless. And there is also no clear cut description of what a pressure is, there is just PFF spitting out the numbers. What constitutes a QB pressure? That's why it's not an official NFL stat because there is too much discretion left to the whoever is tracking it. The CFL did away with it this year as an official stat for that very reason.
On the other hand, I know what tackles and sacks result in, the ball carrier on the ground. While i agree that Donald is the slightly better player at this point in their careers, the gap is very minimal.
