Will Stein's halftime speech in Kentucky's win over LSU.
"They don't want to play with you. They don't like getting hit in the f**king mouth. I like it f**king gritty and f**king dirty."
🎥: UK Athletics
This is a perfectly placed back shoulder fade where only Jamarr could get it. It’s purposely thrown short to the back shoulder because the only way for the DB to defend it, given his body position, is to go thru Jamarr - which would result in a DPI. If Jamarr had burned past him at the line, it would’ve been thrown over his outside shoulder for the same reason - the only way to defend it given the DBs position would be to commit a DPI.
From a PASSER’S perspective, Joe Burrow is at the very top of the sport.
By his own admission, he’s played average compared to his standards this far through the season, and he historically gets better as the season progresses.
I anticipate he’ll continue to separate himself from the rest of the pack even more so post-bye week.
And for those questioning why Mahomes’ rating is higher than Burrow’s if Burrow is the best passer of the football? The 2nd chart helps explain it.
Patrick Mahomes’ currently leads the league in % of passes thrown behind the LOS.
These are mostly uncontested/high completion % throws & of the 4 statistical categories that go into determining Passer Rating, completion % is the most heavily weighted category - allowing for a significant boost to a QBs Passer Rating.
Joe Burrow is towards the bottom of the pack when it comes to % of passes thrown behind the LOS. When you couple this with the amount of drops he’s suffered and total passes thrown - it makes his completion % even more impressive.
And for those questioning why Mahomes’ rating is higher than Burrow’s if Burrow is the best passer of the football? This chart helps explain it.
Patrick Mahomes’ currently leads the league in % of passes thrown behind the LOS.
These are mostly uncontested/high completion % throws & of the 4 statistical categories that go into determining Passer Rating, completion % is the most heavily weighted category - allowing for a significant boost to a QBs Passer Rating.
Joe Burrow is in the middle of the pack. When you couple this with the amount of drops he’s suffered and total passes thrown - it makes his completion % even more impressive.
Joe Burrow Completion %: Ranked 1st (71.4%)
Joe Burrow Passes Dropped: 2nd Most (9)
Joe Burrow on 20+ yd passes: Ranked 1st
-5 TDs / 0 INTs
-137.9 Passer Rating (Best in NFL)
Joe Burrow Avg. Release Time: Ranked 2nd (2.54s)
Do you understand how ridiculous it is to have the HIGHEST Completion %, the 2nd FASTEST Avg. Release Time, with the 2nd MOST DROPPED PASSES, and being the HIGHEST RATED QB when throwing downfield - SIMULTANEOUSLY?!
And the scariest part? It all looks so casual and Joe hasn’t even found his full rhythm yet… This is what playing QB at the most elite level looks like. It’s so good that it doesn’t even look “special” - it just looks automatic.
From a PASSER’S perspective, Joe Burrow is at the very top of the sport.
By his own admission, he’s played average compared to his standards this far through the season, and he historically gets better as the season progresses.
I anticipate he’ll continue to separate himself from the rest of the pack even more so post-bye week.
I would say that basketball is arguably right in the middle between football & baseball when it comes to the aspect of trying to decipher how good a player truly is on their own vs. in a team environment - with CBB specifically leaning more towards the team environment whereas the NBA would lean slightly to the 1v1 matchups. I believe football is the truest “team” sport which is why it’s so difficult to quantify how good players are.
Now I’ll preface this take by saying I know VERY little about baseball so I could be totally wrong here as well - I stopped playing in middle school because I couldn’t hit 🤷🏻♂️😂. I’m much more knowledgeable and better at analyzing basketball, football, and MMA because those are the sports I have experience in competing at high levels in. I don’t with baseball, so it’s hard for me to analyze the data from that sport because I wasn’t very good as a player and that’s where my perspective naturally derives is thru my experience as a player and baseball is less about athleticism and more about skillset & IQ (understanding the strike zone, getting to the pitch you want, etc.) so I don’t think I would have a very educated opinion at all when it comes to analyzing data from baseball. When I look at baseball data - I basically just see a bunch of numbers - I don’t really understand how to interpret them within the game itself. But when I see data from from basketball, football, or MMA - I do know how to interpret that from years and years of experience competing and being around guys that would go on to reach the pinnacle of the sport, so I have a better perspective - if any of that makes sense at all! 🤷🏻♂️
I like @NFL_Researcher@throwthedamball@FTNFantasy@SumerSports@tejfbanalytics just to name a few. But the issue with PFF is the same issue with your question from a statistical standpoint. There is no blanket grade/ranking that you can assign a player and say “this is how good this player is.” You can have grades/rankings in different categories, but then how do you weight or prioritize those categories is the fundamental question. To expand on your example - Garett Bowles could be grade at run blocking but poor in pass block sets, he may be great against certain type of edge rushers and struggle with others, and so on - and this is why you can’t put just a blanket “PFF” grade on a player. Football is situational and players aren’t robots, they perform differently under different circumstances - statistics allow us to identify those circumstances but they don’t necessarily tell the full story. That’s why guys still have to spend hours watching tape rather than spending hours studying the statistics. Again, PFF is great at collecting raw data - but the way they then analyze and interpret it is often flawed and lacks the situational context needed in a sport like football, being played by human beings, to accurately represent what is also undeniable on film.