10-01-2020, 06:58 PM
(10-01-2020, 05:18 PM)ochocincos Wrote: They didn't really "change" their system.
A solid starter is considered 70-80. 80-90 is considered upper-tier. 90+ is considered elite.
Below 70 is considered room for improvement, but still a starter.
Below 60 is considered bad.
The player ratings are deceiving. You need to look at the run and pass protection breakdown, as they combine those into a single rating.
Bobby Hart is the NFL's 42nd rated OT.
Jonah is 38th.
With that said, only 32 have a rating of 70+, which means only half of the NFL's starting OTs are doing what's considered to be solid or better.
When looking closer at the breakdown....
Hart - 57.0 pass blocking (which is bad), 75.3 run blocking (which is good)
A big problem the Bengals have is only two OL (Williams, Hopkins) have a pass blocking grade above 60. They both have 70+ actually.
And only one OL (Hart) has a run blocking grade above 60.
So it's not that the ratings are changed necessarily, it's that performance is down across the league.
I am currently working through the Eagles game, watching the All-22 film and this is what I have seen as well (in regard to Hart). He is a solid run blocker, and I have found myself surprised at how well he has done in his run blocking assignments. He is aggressive and moves his defender.
When it comes to pass blocking, however, he looks so weak. He struggles to plant his hands on the defender and he struggles with the bull rush. Early on, Graham was able to swat Hart’s hands away and get around him but Burrow was able to get the ball out quickly, so it didn’t go down as a pressure. I still counted it as a loss for Hart, however.
Also a note, I have seen two pressures so far that were allowed by wide receivers. In the first quarter, Burrow missed a wide open Tyler Boyd. He threw a duck and Tyler Boyd slipped trying to stop and turn around for it. This was because Auden state was kept in to block and was tasked with picking up a corner blitz. He missed the block and the corner got to Burrow before he could hit Boyd.
Later on, on the play where Burrow was nearly beheaded, he was originally under pressure due to Boyd being tasked with a block-and-release on the defensive end on the near side. The end obviously got around Boyd, forced Burrow out of his roll out and right into the interior pressure from Jackson.
