You have to pay for the premium stats at profootballfocus.com, so I won't post detailed information, but here are some highlights. At profootballfocus.com, they grade individuals on each play from scrimmage.

On offense, we have 7 players with overall positive grades. In order, they are:
Jake Long
Chad Henne
Davone Bess
Brandon Marshall (no doubt hurt by his team leading 5 dropped passes)
Anthony Fasano
Ronnie Brown
Vernon Carey (although he has allowed a team high 9 QB pressures)

Joe Berger grades out as neutral (but has allowed 5 QB pressures).

Earning overall negative grades, they are, in order, from least negative to most negative:
Ricky Williams
Brian Hartline
Pat McQuistan (in limited time, has allowed 1 QB hit, 1 sack, and 5 pressures)
John Jerry (major negative grade in run blocking)
Lousaka Polite (has allowed 2 sacks and 2 pressures on missed blocks)
Richie Incognito (allowed 3 QB hits, 3 pressures, 1 sack)

The thing that jumps out, same as last year, is way too much pass rush pressure allowed by the interior of the o-line.

Under no pressure, Henne has a QB rating of 95.1. When under pressure, it drops to 57.8. When blitzed, Henne has a stellar QB rating of 103.1, completing 70% of his passes.

We are averaging 2.2 yards per carry when running behind Richie Incognito.

Both Brian Hartline and Davone Bess are averaging more yards after catch than Brandon Marshall.

On defense, the grades are much higher. We have 12 players with positive grades. They are, in order:

Cam Wake
Karlos Dansby
Vontae Davis
Koa Misi
Chris Clemons
Jason Allen
Yeremiah Bell
Kendall Langford
Tony McDaniel
Paul Soliai
Ryan Baker
Quentin Moses

Wake gets almost all of his grade in the pass rush. He ranks as the 6th best 3-4 OLB in the league. You know who ranks #3? Matt Roth, who they show tied for the league lead with 15 QB pressures.

As expected, Dansby's grades are well rounded between pass coverage and run defense.

Misi's pass rush numbers are very solid, with 2 sacks, 4 QB hits, and 7 pressures.

Moses has graded out very well against the run, but gets the worst coverage grade of anyone on the team.

Getting overall neutral grades are Jared Odrick, Tim Dobbins, and Ike Alama-Francis.

The players earning negative grades, in order, from least negative to most negative are:
Sean Smith
Tyrone Culver
Benny Sapp
Bobby Carpenter
Randy Starks (has far and away the worst run defense grade)

The only 2 players earning positive grades on special teams are Patrick Cobbs (for his coverage, not returns) and Brandon Fields.

Would it surprise you to know that both Vontae Davis and Jason Allen have allowed 10 completions on 17 attempts? The difference is that the 10 completions against Vontae have gone for 67 total yards, while Allen's have gone for 188 yards.

Thanks for these...they are interesting stats. How do we stack up against the Jets and Pats?

TheFutt Wrote:
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> Thanks for these...they are interesting stats.
> How do we stack up against the Jets and Pats?


Overall, we rank #7 in offensive grades. But, the Pats are #6 and the Jets are #4. The Jets' offensive grade is more than twice our grade. On defense, our grade is 11th best. The Jets are #20 and the Pats are #22.

Some more of our player grades.
Jake Long gets a high grade in pass blocking. Vernon Carey has a slightly positive grade. John Jerry is a tick better than neutral. Berger is slightly negative, while McQuistan and Incognito are solidy in the negative grades.

Jake Long has the best run blocking grade. Both Joe Berger and Vernon Carey carry slightly positive grades. McQuistan is on the negative side of neutral. Incognito is slightly negative, and Jerry is very negative.

It's interesting that Lousaka Polite is almost as negative in run blocking as Jerry. Polite is also very negative in pass blocking. Last year, they ranked Polite as one of the best in the league. He had an exceptional run blocking grade, and a solid pass blocking grade. But, so far this season, it's the opposite. He was slightly positive in the first two games, but they have the last two games as disasters for him.

We have called 4 "end arounds" or reverses, for a total of -7 yards.

People like to criticize Henne's touch passing, but he has been at his best throwing passes 10-19 yards downfield, throws that typically require some touch.

Henne has 7 passes batted at the line of scrimmage, most in the league. How much of that is due to poor protection up the middle? Incognito, Jerry, Berger, and McQuistan have combined to allow 2 sacks, 5 QB hits, and 14 QB pressures. That is way too much pressure up the middle in just 4 games.

Keep these coming, this is great!

Thanks Dolfanmark, this is great info.

Yep, thanks for posting it.

This is one of the best football (foosball) sites I have ever seen. Is it new?

sconigli Wrote:
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> This is one of the best football (foosball) sites
> I have ever seen. Is it new?


I'm waiting to see if this is a serious question or not...

Sure I was serious. I am referring to "profootballfocus.com". Read about their grading strategy. It is impressive.

sconigli Wrote:
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> Sure I was serious. I am referring to
> "profootballfocus.com". Read about their grading
> strategy. It is impressive.

Ahh...duh! I'm a little slow sometimes.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2010 08:21AM by montequi.

So basically this explains what Ive been seeing all season long, which is we need a new center and our two guards are not that good.

Which means we can't run the ball, and we will be forced to pass pass pass, but we don't have the wr core to do so, especially with Henning calling the plays, keeping Henne under center.

Which MEANS mediocre team plain and simple.

sconigli Wrote:
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> This is one of the best football (foosball) sites
> I have ever seen. Is it new?


Both Omar Kelly and Armando Salguero started referring to it last season in their columns. That's when I first started visiting it. They just started charging for their premium content this year.

Great website. When I get some free time, I am really going to check it out. I would love to join a fantasy football league where you draft every position, not just the skill positions. With these statistics for Olineman and so forth, setting up a league like that is doable.