Lemar Marshall released for Randall Godfrey??

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

GTripp,

I appreciate that you back up your claims with stats, but I definately believe that stats can and oftentimes do lie. How exactly do your stats determine how good someone is in coverage? Are the statmakers privy to our playcalls so they can decide who is and who is not responsible for X offensive player or X area of the field? Or, do the statmakers simply divine what the playcalling was based on game tape?

Moreover, those stats likely do not account for what the coaches are asking players to do. For example, you will never see Trotter asked to cover WRs downfield. Conversely, Marshall was frequently asked to cover WRs downfield. Just because Marshall gets a pass completed on him 20 yards downfield, whereas Trotter does not, does not mean that Trotter is better than Marshall in coverage. So sorry, but I've got to call B.S.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

GTripp,

I appreciate that you back up your claims with stats, but I definately believe that stats can and oftentimes do lie. How exactly do your stats determine how good someone is in coverage? Are the statmakers privy to our playcalls so they can decide who is and who is not responsible for X offensive player or X area of the field? Or, do the statmakers simply divine what the playcalling was based on game tape?

You have to admit though, yards against per pass attempt is a better metric than "he was a safety in college". As 70 chip pointed out, it can be skewed in a small sample by matchups.

The reason I can say confidently that Lemar was bad in coverage is because he started two full seasons, and the pass coverage data is nearly identical. He's not good at it. If it was conflicting, I'd prefer a wait and see approach with him. But that was 2006. We did wait and see, and we were not only horrible covering backs and tight ends, but Holdman and Marshall were clearly the problems. Washington gets no blame in this, he was quite literally double as effective vs the pass last year as the other two guys.

It will be better with Fletch and Rocky there, a lot better.