re: Offensive Line PFF Grades

Not good when the only Senior starter grades out the lowest!

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Not good when the only Senior starter grades out the lowest!

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This is sadly, very sadly, true.

He's getting blamed for what looks like some assignment failures, unfairly. BUT... he did get his arse whipped enough where that's beside the point.

And several times he did very good recoveries or rode the DE behind the pocket and people see those as bad when they are good, unfairly. BUT... he did get his arse straight up whipped several times.

One thing stood out to me that was killing him (that I also saw the freshman Campbell do very well often) and that was lack of a first good punch. He was on his heels too much in the sense he didn't punch the defender to blunt that first move. It's a catch all, works against all moves, gives you time to adjust. If I were to give him one piece of advice is to punch first before you try to react.

Some of Campbell's punches were truly vicious. It saved him from some bad freshmanesque technique several times. I could almost see the guy he punched eyes dilate from shock and suprise.

IMO, Emery Jones could’ve played better than Cam Wire at RT

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These grades come from people who watch the game, who have less than HS JV FB experience.

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Some of these guys have probably never played football. That being said, it doesn’t matter because this is all based off analytics gathered. You don’t have to have playing experience to use their formula for grading players.