re: shea dixon of on3 provided an update on DJ Pickett

Shea had Jackson starting on the other side with Delane in the slot

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The secondary is still a huge question mark for 2025

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Nah. We have a shitload of talent in the db room now and depth. We are going to be very good in the secondary. The only question is if raymond and co can get them all to play as a cohesive unit...which im pretty confident they can. We are going to be good.

We really had people on here trying to claim he faked having surgery

Never seen a pff grade make a play on the field before. Idk where this obsession with PFF came from

73 grade Sage Ryan bad

73 grade any other DB good

Sage is a case where he wasn’t a “73” PFF grade when I watched him. Our safeties were awful last year, I think next year is an improvement especially considering the versatility in that room

Well here you go then:
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I like him more than Cooley. Whats your opinion on Cooley?

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Question becomes whose starting on the other side

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Well, at worst it’s an All ACC CB in Delaney, so should be good against ACC receivers.

Also could be an elite talent and prior SEC starter in Jackson.

Or you have our 2nd best CB the past two years in Stamps.

Or it could be our top returnee from last years class in Woodland.

We DBU bro….

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Yet everyone loves pff when it comes to the db from nc st

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Yeah that’s the beauty of the system. It’s an arbitrary grading system that gives people something to be happy or upset about either way. Either side using it as the main reason for a player being as good or bad as he is is just silly

Using it as THE sole indicator of a player being good or not is silly in any context. It’s like ranking QBs by the old QB rating. Like it probably gives you a good general sense of things, but if you use it as a true grading scale, it falls apart instantly

PFF uses different graders who will naturally have different grades for things they see vs other graders. It’s an inherently human biased influenced grade. Which is again makes it useful as a gauge, but not as an exact measure.

On top of that There’s an incredible amount of unknown information to the graders at PFF at the college level. The pro grades are traditionally more accurate because there’s less variables, much more open discussion and openness about scheme and decision making at the NFL level vs CFBs cloak and dagger approach to that level of detail about what goes on when the team is running a play.


Every play in college drastically differs in the level of competition, scheme, quality of film and skill level that makes these ratings essentially just noise. Which is how it was referenced on this board for a long time, but in the last 2 years I’ve seen people just become PFF score humpers and act like it’s a Madden rating and we’re playing a video game