Dennard elite against the run in 2018

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(07-02-2019, 01:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Thank goodness we have much more advanced stats to rate CBs than PD and INT.  And people who look at these advanced metrics already consider Dennard a "player of note".  Fans who just look at INTs will think that Patrick Peterson is not a very good CB.

In 2017 PFF ranked him as the 32nd best CB overall and Bleacher Report had him as the #9 slot corner.

Last year Football Outsiders ranked Dennard 29th (out of 85 qualified CBs) in yards allowed per target.

Those are far from "mediocre to subpar results"

Fred, choose if you're going to accept PFF rankings as a metric of worth or not. This whole flip-flopping is exhausting.

Not to mention...
If you allow 5 yards on 3rd and 4, that's not as good as allowing 8 yards on 3rd and 10. It's less yards, but not as good. Slot receivers will always have less yards per target than outside receivers. You're rarely on and island where you have 1 guy to beat in order to get a long TD.

32nd best OVERALL CB, as in including the run... and you just made this thread saying he's the 6th highest rated against the run last year. If you're really good in one thing, and they rate you 32nd overall, that means the other thing (passing) you probably aren't above average at.

Plus hurray using 2017 stats. Meanwhile he was 52nd overall in 2018, and 6th in the run. That means he had to of been absolutely awful against the pass to make any sense.


1 decent-to-good year + 4 mediocre-to-subpar years = mediocre-to-subpar results.


This is the same conversation of how Andre Smith was a bust. If you're only good for 1 year out of your career as a first round pick, you were a bust, regardless of the fact that you did have 1 year where you lived up to expectations. It gets averaged out and weighed down by all the bad and mediocrity.