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dzrams
Nah, subjective is not a pejorative. It just means that there is no reliable and consistent way to measure. I make subjective judgments all the time but you or the next man will make different judgments. So if you're going to do a ranking it really needs to be some obective measurement.
PFF and the other source you cite below are both objective measurements.
I no longer have access to their advanced metrics so I'm not sure how they have him at #14 under pressure when he was so low in the 4 categories I used from their numbers. Maybe they're also looking at other stuff in a sort of proprietary formula like their ratings are.
It's good news that two sources have him 13th and 14th. It appears that various metrics have him anywhere from middle of the pack to near the bottom. QBR and PFF's rating have him in the middle of the pack in 2019. QB Ratings under pressure, compl. percentage, and TD/INT ratio have him closer to the bottom. It's likely the truth is somewhere in between.
Yes but that's middle of the pack under challenging conditions.
Oh and again these "objective" measurements can defy football sense. So if you have a qb playing behind a shaky line (like Goff, Ryan, and Rivers in 2019), and you can't account for the influence the line issues have on the situation, you're not being objective per se, you;re just artificially isolating qb stats from their context. It would be as if I used various measurements to see how well you were driving but never accounted for the brakes being out.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2020 04:51AM by zn.
