Re: PFF ranking is bogus
| January 21, 2021 10:31AM |
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No way the Rams OL is #3. Maybe the way PFF grades it is the problem. Just like the way they grade Ramsey as no where near the top CB.
The Rams are clearly weak in the interior in pass pro. Blythe gets overpowered constantly against anyone good.
Football Outsiders had the Rams OL ranked around #8 in DVOA.
Also, how PFF grades could be a problem but there are some things such as pressures allowed and sacks given up that are hard to get wrong. The Rams had a top 10 OL in total pressures allowed.
It's really hard to make an argument that it was a bad OL and in fact I haven't seen anyone do that. The biggest and most accurate charge is that they were inconsistent.
Not just inconsistent, in several key games they a huge problem. Green Bay game being one of them. Calling them "inconsistent" whitewashes the extent to which they were a problem against defenses equipped to challenge them.
The issue was teams that could physically dominate the interior OL (Whitworth missing games didn't help).
In terms of the PFF ranking, it makes no sense. I borrowed this from a post from elsewhere put up by a PFF subscriber. Notice--Blythe is 26th in pass blocking among 32 centers. Hav is 45th pass blocking among 64 OTs (I assume they don't do left and right) yet they rank him as the 15th OT. There is no Rams OL except Whitworth that is any higher than 31st at pass blocking.
And that according to them adds up to a top 3 OL?
