"Quoting PFF rankings as the baseline for your argument completely invalidates your position."
Watching the game with my two eyes is my baseline. Scouting websites such as PFF and SIS data hub provide insight and help back up an already formed opinion. I've brought factual information to the conversation and looked at the money in a realistic manner. Don't like PFFs grades? Fine. How about being targeted 10 times in coverage, giving up 9 catches for a 90% completion rate? Maybe 13 broken tackles in 13 games starts to paint a better picture? He didn't perform at contract level. He wasn't bad, but he wasn't great.
"KVN was never going to be a backup here with that pay and that language providing an easy cheap out."
Yeah, sure that would have been a masterclass too, except you conveniently forget the player has to agree to the deal too. Pretty hard to beat 4 million in dead cap space in year 2 with no other cap ramifications for one of the top 8 defensive free agents from 2019.
"The fact $4.1M is dead shows this was not the plan."
No, it was just an option the FO wanted to have in their back pockets in case this exact scenario happened. Luckily they did and it cost the team very little and in the end will save more.
"PFF also doesn't score locker room chemistry."
The teams culture will dictate the chemistry here. Young guys like Wilkins will step into the voids. Don't sell Flores short.
#1 - Eyeball test certainly does matter the most but it's about who's eyeball we are talking about.
Have you never watched a cop show? The lead detective follows his initial "gut instinct" and then proceeds to position evidence as it comes to support his initial hypothesis instead of objectively viewing the evidence as one should. You end up trying to find ways to "fit your narrative" versus the reason you are here - to solve the crime.
"Help back up an already formed opinion" IE - If you are down on a player and PFF grades them poorly you feel "justified" with your evaluation. Using the evidence to fit your narrative.
Anyone who would pride themselves on having a working knowledge of the game and a good eyeball could easily find far more circumstances where PFF hands out an asinine grade on a clearly improving or established player.
It's a shared opinion of many who actually understand evaluation and x's and o's that PFF is straight trash homie.
What is the purpose to quote his coverage numbers? That is not even the ask.
I have said numerous times we significantly overpaid for him. And we did this understanding the exact player he was and where he could help (toughness, versatility, edge setting, some pass rush, leadership, etc).
He gave us what he was expected to give. We overpaid with this understanding in mind. Now he is a cap casualty because of one reason - $180M total cap.
#2 - You legit are quoting yourself LMAO.
#3 - If the FO wanted a clean out after year 2 then they would have front loaded his deal even more. We had ample cap to do so. So again, you are wrong as this was "not the plan all along" like you and the other kool aid drunkards would like you to believe.
#4 - We better hope somebody fing steps into the leadership void.
