What You Don’t Know About: Being a Safety

[Sons Of Shula]

By Glover Quin - Safety, Detroit Lions

. . . A lot of people said I had a career year last season because I led the NFL in interceptions. But the truth was, I made a lot of the same plays I’ve been making my entire career. I just happened to have a few balls thrown in my direction at the right moment.

The fact that we tend to judge an entire position based mostly on one statistic isn’t all that surprising when you think about it. Fantasy football has turned the NFL into a box-score league. You see the stats, and that tells a story. But there’s nothing reflected in the box score when a running back has to cut back inside for a short gain because you helped seal the edge. No fantasy points for that.

Full article: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/glover-quin-lions-nfl-safety/


Excellent read on the nuances and true responsibilities of the safety position.

 

[NY8123]

My buddies and I were literally just having this debate over coffee yesterday on vacation.

How fantasy points have made stats the driver of success. TJ McDonald was the topic and how they all loved that move by the Dolphins and how in the second half it gives Miami a person to cover Gronk.