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My concern is that they can’t be relied on to tell us who the best CBs are with their grading system. It’s too flawed.
As one of the media personalities said today: Good CBs defend passes and get INTs, great CBs don't get targeted.
How many CBs are there in the league where opposing QBs just avoid challenging them? Can't be many. For that handful of players, the rankings will be off.
The problem with PFF is they are trying to employ the empirical analysis that Sabermetrics instituted in baseball, but with subjective information. Baseball is a lot more binary in it's execution and results but football is not. PFF does what it can but it often amounts to hokum. Even when you isolate an individual position in football, there is no obvious success or failure without knowing what the play call was and if any audibles were called and many other things. It's mostly guesswork too much of the time.
