Dynasty League Football Forum

The reason you wouldn't ding someone for not showing these mythical 'instincts' is that they are largely illusory. Super-quick decision making is what's happening. Aussie Mate points out above that perhaps instincts is just another name for this quick decision making. The reason I don't think it is ...

RB scouting is such a wonderfully messy business as it is near impossible to separate back from scheme and O-line- just like it is on Sundays. The only thing I am sure about in my own mind is that we don't weight interior line play enough when assessing college backs. Anyone who is going to play on ...

The Patriots seem to be perceived as having a problem with both the evaluation of and the coaching of Wide Receivers. I don't think that's it. I think they just ask the impossible of their WRs. Their variant of the Erhardt-Perkins system has always been super-complex. They seem to have become more a...

There's probably a good argument for looking to move your picks between the combine and the draft this year. Dobbins and Taylor are going to blow up the combine, Shenault and Reagor too. Owners are going to be salivating at all of the incoming greatness and naturally imagining every back in KC and e...

I'm broadly in the don't anoint a new QB hero camp, but there's some blurring of the facts going on here about Mahomes. He didn't regress because the peak of last year was unsustainable. He got hurt. He missed time and was dinged up upon his return. The idea that he can't and won't be a dominant pla...

That makes sense. It is still a somewhat ridiculous stat to take too seriously though. As the title indicates, it is a measure of how a WR dominated his teammates. Depending on player turnover we are measuring him against perhaps five or six other players and charting that against hundreds of other ...

The way some people talk about Dominator Rating confuses me. I like to look at it and find the broad implications of it a useful prompt to investigate players.Some of you seem to imbue it with a mystical predictive power and tie yourselves in knots defending the obvious inanity of having a hard cut-...

Ridley's dominator rating was highly deceptive as Alabama blew out a bunch of teams and he barely played in the second half of a number of games. Jeudy's is deceptive because of the talent at WR that Bama had this year. Like a great many stats, dominator rating is better thought of as a flashing lig...

It's going to be the most interesting first round in an age. It's not just that the landing spots could scramble the backs, there are enough serious WR prospects out there who could blow away the combine and then land in a dream spot that it's night impossible to make predictions at this stage. Let'...

It's certainly possible. My own sense is that the potential upgrade of adding an early round back to Singletary over bringing in a late round guy or a re-tread to back him up is probably not going to be as significant as adding help at WR/Edge/CB or IOL. That said, the draft could definitely break d...

WR a more pressing need with the first pick no?

Carson fractured his hip. That is a bad injury for a running back. Chirpy Pete can be as sunny about it as he likes, but the odds on Carson starting next season are not good.

A lot of teams are set at RB. Of those that might take a back, plenty have elements that would make you worry. You don't want your rookie to have to worry about Kerryon, Singletary or Lindsay for instance. You don't want them in San Diego with Ekeler getting all the passing game work. You definitely...

As DynoScout says, the art is figuring out whether to go up or down in any given year, and in each specific draft. This year will be interesting because whilst the narrative is that there's no reason to go up because the draft is so deep, there's also massive excitement about the top 4-6 slots. I te...

This garbage passing game that's holding him back has been one of the best in the league since Tannehill took over. That Tannehill might not repeat this performance seems perfectly likely, but the idea that Brown has been held back by garbage QB play this season is laughable.