10-10-2024, 10:50 AM
I think the point others are making is that the evaluations of all those quarterbacks as having had similar seasons shows the limitations of PFF in being able to isolate QB play from everything else. Stick 2005 Trent Edwards into the 2012 team and he has a season comparable or better than 2012 Hogan. Stick 2021's McKee into the 2008 team and his season looks a lot better than Pritchard's.
What PFF purports to do is impossible. No amount of trying to evaluate the individual contribution of each player to a play can fully account for the fact that no player can truly be evaluated in a vacuum. So, you have to take PFF's ratings with a little bit of a grain of salt.
Now, that's not to say that PFF ratings aren't useful, and that they aren't better than raw stats. I think they provide a valuable service, and that they have the right idea. The fact that you can't perfectly isolate an individual player doesn't mean that doing your best to separate individual contributions isn't worth trying. I just wouldn't go so far as saying that, adjusted for the quality of team around them, the 2005 Edwards season, 2008 Pritchard season, 2012 Nunes season and 2021 McKee seasons are indicative of average QB play, or that inserting each of those QBs into the current team would produce an equivalent outcome. I think Edwards and McKee, given the rest of today's teams, would produce much better QB season than Daniels; Pritchard would probably be a little bit better, and I am not convinced that if you put Nunes in there the results at the position would be any better (and given his lack of mobility, are maybe worse).
BC
What PFF purports to do is impossible. No amount of trying to evaluate the individual contribution of each player to a play can fully account for the fact that no player can truly be evaluated in a vacuum. So, you have to take PFF's ratings with a little bit of a grain of salt.
Now, that's not to say that PFF ratings aren't useful, and that they aren't better than raw stats. I think they provide a valuable service, and that they have the right idea. The fact that you can't perfectly isolate an individual player doesn't mean that doing your best to separate individual contributions isn't worth trying. I just wouldn't go so far as saying that, adjusted for the quality of team around them, the 2005 Edwards season, 2008 Pritchard season, 2012 Nunes season and 2021 McKee seasons are indicative of average QB play, or that inserting each of those QBs into the current team would produce an equivalent outcome. I think Edwards and McKee, given the rest of today's teams, would produce much better QB season than Daniels; Pritchard would probably be a little bit better, and I am not convinced that if you put Nunes in there the results at the position would be any better (and given his lack of mobility, are maybe worse).
BC