«A PFF grade does not determine who they are.’
Those who frequent Husker247 know we sprinkle in Pro Football Focus data on occasion – most useful to us on snap counts, which we certainly appreciate.
What about those ratings? Yeah, those have their skeptics. We’ve often included a cautionary note when we do pass them on to take them with a grain of salt. Useful maybe in getting another outside source’s take on how specific guys played, but also understood the grader can’t know exactly what that player may have been called to do on certain plays.
More than that, everyone who watches a game could grade a player a little different on many given plays – even coaches on the same staff. We only bring this up because Matt Rhule was asked on Monday about those PFF grades that travel around after every game in every market.
It’s a fair question. Those grades really are EVERYWHERE. What’s a coach make of them? How does a locker room respond to them?
«I’ll just say this if you go back and listen to anything I’ve said, even when I was in the NFL, I’ve talked about that being the No. 1 thing that affects players in the National Football League is those grades. Because people listen to them, right?» Rhule said.
«I would just say that if I went and graded our O-line and Donnie graded our O-line and Satt graded our O-line, we would all come out sometimes with different scores. So I’m not going to listen to other people. I mean that with the greatest deal of respect.»