25 minutes ago, Allhaildawk said:

Drafting a qb top ten because of two passes. Brilliant 

This guy had a pretty good passer rating last year maybe we should trade for him.

Punter QB super freak beast.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DixoRi00.htm

2 minutes ago, Utebird said:

This guy had a pretty good passer rating last year maybe we should trade for him.

Punter QB super freak beast.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DixoRi00.htm

Let’s find a guy who had one carry for twenty five yards and break every record in the books 

1 hour ago, NOTW said:

He's serious. He's been posting this nonsense for years, he is obsessed with making linemen into a RB, TE or QB. 

He calls them Superweapons.

Obsessed is a good description.  Out of touch with reality is another good description.

3 minutes ago, Allhaildawk said:

Let’s find a guy who had one carry for twenty five yards and break every record in the books 

Sell the farm for this dude and make him the starting VB super freak beast, he averaged 40 yards a carry😳

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WillJa11.htm

1 hour ago, Random Reglar said:

I'm RIGHT here.

You're WRONG.

A 228.4 passer rating is great.

Is something so wrong with your brains that you can't recognize that a 228.4 passer rating doesn't suck?  

RR, help me along.  The NFL has a very well defined passer rating formula.  I have copied and pasted it below. In that formula, the maximum passer rating is 158.4.  If that is the maximum, how do you explain a score that is 70 points higher than the maximum?  

<blockquote>

The NFL passer rating formula includes five variables: pass attempts, completions, passing yards, touchdown passes, and interceptions. Each of those variables is scaled to a value between 0 and 2.375, with 1.0 being statistically average (based on league data between 1960 and 1970). When the formula was first created, a 66.7 rating indicated an average performance, and a 100+ rating indicated an excellent performance.^[3]However, passing performance has improved steadily since then and in 2017 the league average rating was 88.6,^[4] and by 2020 it was 93.6.^[5]

The four separate calculations can be expressed in the following equations:where

ATT = Number of passing attempts

CMP = Number of completions

YDS = Passing yards

TD = Touchdown passes

INT = Interceptions

If the result of any calculation is greater than 2.375, it is set to 2.375. If the result is a negative number, it is set to zero.

Then, the above calculations are used to complete the passer rating:

A perfect passer rating (158.3) requires at least:[1]	A minimum rating (0.0) requires at best:
77.5% completion percentage (31 completions in 40 attempts) 12.5 yards per attempt 11.875% TD/ATT (1 TD/8.421ATT) No interceptions	30.0% completion percentage 3.0 yards per attempt No touchdowns 9.5% INT/ATT (1INT/10.526ATT)

</blockquote>

KLet's imagine for a moment that there's a basketball player who never plays, but at the end of the last game of the season he gets onto the court for the final minute. A ball happens to bounce flukily to him and he somehow finds himself under the basket all alone. He stuffs the ball into the hole just as time expires and his team only loses by 23 points instead of 25 points. And he never plays again.

I think a guy like that should make the Hall of Fame. After all, he finished his career with a shooting percentage of 100%.

That's basically the equivalent of the absurd argument that has been going on lately involving a guy who threw two passes in a season.

Hell, Keith Byars one year went 4-for-4 with 4 touchdown passes. We may as well consider him the greatest passer in Eagles history and curse the coaching staff for never even considering converting him to quarterback.

4 minutes ago, mattwill said:

RR, help me along.  The NFL has a very well defined passer rating formula.  I have copied and pasted it below. In that formula, the maximum passer rating is 158.4.  If that is the maximum, how do you explain a score that is 70 points higher than the maximum? 

The college passer rating is different from the NFL's. Completely different formula.

9 hours ago, just relax said:

I thoroughly enjoyed that breakdown and I thank you for posting it. It led me to another line of thought however, apart from the Cover 6, Cover 4, Cover 2. As you might expect, I almost always go back to line play.

Fangio played a lot of light box - four DL and two LBs. Pretty much every cutout from that article showed a 4-2 front. Example.

Not only that, but the two DEs are stand-up rushers. Michigan played much the same alignment and had one of the country's best defenses.

On the assumption, then, that Desai figures to play a lot of this alignment, I think we need a little more beef at DT, and I would like to see Mazi Smith get picked, somewhere on Day 2. Strictly a rotational player, I admit, but one who thrives in the 4-2. He and Davis would be a formidable front on early downs, and with Cox, that makes an excellent rotation. 

Whether you like this thought or not, I think the next question is what to do with the LBs. In this alignment the difference between weak side LB and Middle LB almost goes away. I think this will fit Dean very nicely. The LBs in this alignment will have to do a lot of running, which is Dean's game. The guy from Chicago, Nick Morrow, is another undersized but fast LB. I'm curious to see if they can get away with that.

Just some idle thoughts and possibly nonsensical.

Good to see you back, jr

54 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

The college passer rating is different from the NFL's. Completely different formula.

So on that scale what is the lowest score and what is the highest?  We know zero (0) is the lowest and 158 and change is the highest.  What are their equivalents in the college system?

@Random Reglar what say you?

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5 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

Which is the bigger projection?

Nolan Smith ILB at #10

Anthony Richardson QB at #4 

Depends. Is Richardson being drafted as a WR at 4?

Nolan Smith at 10 has all the measurables you want out of a stretch TE.  Are the Eagles moving him to TE?  Even better, with his speed and quickness, can you imagine how good he would be at RG pulling out around the edge?

5 hours ago, Outlaw said:

Hey numbnuts, are you doubling down on your passer rating stat? It was for a season in which he threw TWO PASSES, one for a TD and one for an INT. I hope the mic you just dropped bounces back up and smacks you in the head. Maybe that will get more than two synapses firing for you. 

It's like saying a baseball player who has 3 plate appearances in one season and goes 2 for 3 is a great hitter even though the following year he plays the whole year and is a .200 hitter.  

 

5 hours ago, Allhaildawk said:

Drafting a qb top ten because of two passes. Brilliant 

Drafting a QB at 10 then making him a WR

4 hours ago, mattwill said:

RR, help me along.  The NFL has a very well defined passer rating formula.  I have copied and pasted it below. In that formula, the maximum passer rating is 158.4.  If that is the maximum, how do you explain a score that is 70 points higher than the maximum?  

<blockquote>

The NFL passer rating formula includes five variables: pass attempts, completions, passing yards, touchdown passes, and interceptions. Each of those variables is scaled to a value between 0 and 2.375, with 1.0 being statistically average (based on league data between 1960 and 1970). When the formula was first created, a 66.7 rating indicated an average performance, and a 100+ rating indicated an excellent performance.^[3]However, passing performance has improved steadily since then and in 2017 the league average rating was 88.6,^[4] and by 2020 it was 93.6.^[5]

The four separate calculations can be expressed in the following equations:where

ATT = Number of passing attempts

CMP = Number of completions

YDS = Passing yards

TD = Touchdown passes

INT = Interceptions

If the result of any calculation is greater than 2.375, it is set to 2.375. If the result is a negative number, it is set to zero.

Then, the above calculations are used to complete the passer rating:

A perfect passer rating (158.3) requires at least:[1]	A minimum rating (0.0) requires at best:
77.5% completion percentage (31 completions in 40 attempts) 12.5 yards per attempt 11.875% TD/ATT (1 TD/8.421ATT) No interceptions	30.0% completion percentage 3.0 yards per attempt No touchdowns 9.5% INT/ATT (1INT/10.526ATT)

</blockquote>

This is NOT a defense of RR, but the college passer rating formula is different than the NFL formula.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/113625-converting-between-the-nfl-and-college-passer-ratings

6 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Hunt is an odd one. You’d think he would have an ok market but there has been nothing out there about him. 

Nah he was ****ing about his contract with the Browns last year because he still thinks he should be a feature back with a fat pay cheque, but it looks like he's washed, his YPC dipped below 4, all signs are he can't even beat up on defenses Chubb has worn down for him any more.

My guess is he's looking for waaay more than people are looking to pay for him, and there are other under 30 guys who may have lost a step like Fournette and Elliott still on the market who have a lot better recent resume.

If we're talking about bringing in Florida QB's as back up, why don't we get Trey Burton out of retirement, he had a 65% completion in college and put up a career 100% completion in the NFL.

They hyped Trey Lance like this and the Liberty QB 🤣🤣😂

I almost feel sorry for whoever drafts him

3 minutes ago, DawkinsOwnage03 said:

They hyped Trey Lance like this and the Liberty QB 🤣🤣😂

I almost feel sorry for whoever drafts him

but he hit the rafters with his pass!

7 hours ago, Dwide Schrude said:

If we drafted Nolan Smith at 10, how would we feel with deonte banks at 30?

We would feel sexy and fabulous.  

1 hour ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Nah he was ****ing about his contract with the Browns last year because he still thinks he should be a feature back with a fat pay cheque, but it looks like he's washed, his YPC dipped below 4, all signs are he can't even beat up on defenses Chubb has worn down for him any more.

My guess is he's looking for waaay more than people are looking to pay for him, and there are other under 30 guys who may have lost a step like Fournette and Elliott still on the market who have a lot better recent resume.

...How and why would Kareem Hunt be washed? Was there some catastrophic injury that caused chronic degenerative knees? He was a feature back who put out consistent performance who proceeded to yield a large percentage of his snaps to Nick Chubb.

If anything, that should be a positive for his longevity, unless he didn't come back from the injuries. Now if you're arguing the contract he wants to be paid is the main issue, that's fair, but washed is harsh. It's not like this guy was taking Larry Johnson style carries.

9 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Great job making excuses up for the sixers fans. Cool. So you are full of crap. Good to know. 

meanwhile sixers during the 2007-2017 decade averaged 25th in attendance over that time when they weren’t very good. Meanwhile they got good again with embiid and they came back to watch them. I’d bet when embiid is gone and they suck again their attendance pattern follows. Go ahead keep making excuses up for the fact the sixers fans don’t go to games unless they are good. 

Sixers frontrunning fans

 🤝 

Phillies frontrunning fans 

 

Yeah Philadelphia overall is a bit of a fanweather fanbase.  But the stats are clear, the Phillies fans are the most fairweather of all the teams in the city.

LMAO, just watched the Inside the Birds pod from yesterday. Caplan was talking about the Edmunds signing and said "from our contracts source......" then he simply says what's been on spotrac for several days about the Edmunds deal. What a fraud.

10 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Yeah Philadelphia overall is a bit of a fanweather fanbase.  But the stats are clear, the Phillies fans are the most fairweather of all the teams in the city.

The Phillies attendance graph is strange if you look here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/246783/average-per-game-attendance-of-the-philadelphia-phillies/

2009 - 2011 attendance was ~45,000 fans per game, which is a sellout.  

During the down years attendance fell to ~23,000 fans per game, which is quite a drop off.  

They year the Phils signed harper attendance spiked back to ~33,000 which is good but well short of what it was in the heyday.  The 28,459 attendance last season is just ... bizarre given how good that team was.  That number was #19, just above the Nationals who had the worst record in the league.  Where was everyone last season?  

24 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Yeah Philadelphia overall is a bit of a fanweather fanbase.  But the stats are clear, the Phillies fans are the most fairweather of all the teams in the city.

Lets just rip the bandaid right off.

 

I'm a fairweather Phillies fan.  

 

Mock me

Putting aside his opinion on pressure being more important than sacks, an interesting look. 

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Putting aside his opinion on pressure being more important than sacks, an interesting look. 

I'm telling you we're 2 weeks from people hoping he falls to 10