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Or people just correctly realize that it could easily be a lot worse.

Lol. NHL Hockey is not the “bloodsport” it once was. Not even close. And if you’re too young to remember the ‘90s Bills you’re definitely too young to remember when the NHL was brutal. now you’re just telling on yourself. Tap out.

All I’m reading here is “loser mentality has so infected my brain let’s just turn the NFL into the Premier League.”

No I agree. They would’ve been waxed by Baltimore either way.

Oh I’d like to believe that too but I honestly don’t. You’ve seen and read some of the absolute idiots that post here recently.

Anyone sending Bass (or anyone) death threats over social media is a scumbag of the highest degree.

i was going to disagree with you but the Easter Bunny texted me and said the same thing.

dude ran hard and played his butt off.

I don’t think they even get that deep into it. They aren’t predicting assignments at all. They’re looking at play outcomes only.

That’s all perfectly fine - so long as it’s made clear that these things are purely subjective analyses. These are people watching tape and assigning grades on a scale that they created. My main problem with them is these two sides of their business are conflated together and now everything is shrouded under PFF’s data analytics. And they really don’t seem interested in speaking up and differentiating the two to the public.

I’ve read all this in the past, along with Matthew Coller’s book. The example clips they give do help add some understanding of it. Still need to know who’s doing these evaluations and how they are qualified and vetted. There are still too many head-scratching grades on a semi-regular basis with this outfit. exactly. The player grades are an entertainment product. They’re glorified power rankings.

Good luck Jerruh

People pointed that out to Watt shortly after he posted that and he acknowledged it. Somebody can be right about one thing and wrong about another.

There is nothing empirical about PFF player grades. Jesus Christ. Edit: and this is the biggest problem with PFF - they’re liars (or at least, manipulators.) PFF holds themselves out as leaders in analytical football data. and they do in fact do a lot of that - that’s what they sell to teams. But PFF player grades are not that, never have been. That’s their fan facing product. That’s to drive those clicks and engagements. And they rely on fans like ol’ Bull here, who’s never met a topic he knew nothing about he wouldn’t comment on, to not know the difference. And they’re succeeding.

I 100% agree with you. If PFF put out more publicly on how these graders are trained and instructed, it might alleviate some of this bewilderment for some of their grades and hatred for them in general. But they don’t do that. Wonder why?

https://x.com/pff_sam/status/1747719174867079220?s=46&t=rG8S37R56ISI2zmCE2WlYQ PFF’s response (edit: I have no idea why X links don’t embed automatically anymore, sorry guys)

Glad someone of Watt’s stature finally said it.

It’s an act, and a bad one at that. Don’t watch.

Absolutely. And that defender had more opportunity than most of those flagged for this to adjust his launch angle and attempt to go over top of Allen. He wanted to deliver that hit.

It appears so at least for today’s yes. And?

They’re not going to change any rules that potentially endanger QBs. Just not going to happen. You claim Allen is still sliding when contact is made and that shows the hit wasn’t late. The QB is protected once he *begins* his slide. That’s why the ball is spotted where it is on QB slides - at the beginning of the slide. So the hit was, by definition, LATE. And that definition isn’t going to change.

cry harder

Lol some people just don’t get it and that’s cool! But yeah that barstool steelers guy self owned so hard it was hard to read/watch.

What on Earth are you talking about? “Half a loaf?” The public subsidy for New Highmark stadium was $850million. The largest in history, until surpassed by the Titans. Half a loaf. I know these facts (or any facts) don’t interest you, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist: -New Highmark ($1.7B cost) - $600M in NY state funding (35%) -New Yankee Stadium ($2.3B) - $115M (5%) -UBS Islanders Arena ($1.6B) - $68M (5%) -Barclay’s Center ($1.0B) - $100M (10%) -Citi Field ($830M) - $96M (12%) NYC made contributions to some of these as well, but the Islanders arena you cite received $0 in City funding. Talk about “sparing no expense”!! 😂

which stadium upgrades prevent regional snowstorms?