SouthSida773
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This has to be the toughest position to accurately grade.
Is it interceptions???
Passes defended (broken up)???
Passes not thrown your way (respect)???
Yards or TDs given up???
Tackles???
A combination of these things???
If you are not getting passes thrown your way, then you really have no basis to judge that player. Saying his man is not open (therefore making him a shutdown corner) is not good enough. Maybe they were just playing against a Ryan Tannehillish QB. And on the flip side, if someone gets a lot of passes thrown their way, their numbers can be inflated either good or bad (even a great DB will give up some yards/TDs if enough passes come his way, and he is sure to defend/intercept some).
For Example:
I mean if you say a CB is the best, because QBs don't look his way, but then you see teams are just running all over his team and hitting the other WR or TE for throws, how much credit does that CB get for that? i.e. the "Sherman Effect".
And what if the CB has so much respect that he can hold and grab WRs all day, and only has to make a few interceptions a year to be considered one of, if not the best CB in the league, year after year? Even though he gets roasted several times a year??? We'll just call this case "The Island".
And what about those one year wonder guys. The guys that show up one year, and are immediately put in the convo with the other great CBs in the league... then they are nowhere to be found come the next year??? A good scientific name for this might be the "Haden/Peterson field".
I don't know guys. What do you think???
Is it interceptions???
Passes defended (broken up)???
Passes not thrown your way (respect)???
Yards or TDs given up???
Tackles???
A combination of these things???
If you are not getting passes thrown your way, then you really have no basis to judge that player. Saying his man is not open (therefore making him a shutdown corner) is not good enough. Maybe they were just playing against a Ryan Tannehillish QB. And on the flip side, if someone gets a lot of passes thrown their way, their numbers can be inflated either good or bad (even a great DB will give up some yards/TDs if enough passes come his way, and he is sure to defend/intercept some).
For Example:
I mean if you say a CB is the best, because QBs don't look his way, but then you see teams are just running all over his team and hitting the other WR or TE for throws, how much credit does that CB get for that? i.e. the "Sherman Effect".
And what if the CB has so much respect that he can hold and grab WRs all day, and only has to make a few interceptions a year to be considered one of, if not the best CB in the league, year after year? Even though he gets roasted several times a year??? We'll just call this case "The Island".
And what about those one year wonder guys. The guys that show up one year, and are immediately put in the convo with the other great CBs in the league... then they are nowhere to be found come the next year??? A good scientific name for this might be the "Haden/Peterson field".
I don't know guys. What do you think???