I don’t get people that trash PFF.
…show me another site that has the audacity to grade every single snap from a collegiate player. Literally any other site.
Because there really isn’t one.
Is it a perfect science? No. Is it gospel? Nope. It was created for the pros, and has been adapted to college.
Is it better than 98% of all college football data out there? You’re **** right it is. I’m supposed to trust HarryChungus01 or MarioBroLover69 on canesinsight over literal scientific data deriven from every single collegiate snap?
But ok. He’s projectable and athletic. That’s like telling a chick she has a great personality, because she’s not attractive. The thing that ultimately matters.
I'm a guy at home watching tv copy, so take that for what it's worth. But I'll add a few things:
1. They've offered to hire me more than once to grade (especially when I stayed home with the kiddos), so they at least felt I was ok at least at this.
2. I watched Colorado and Texas Tech without looking at their scores because I wanted to go in with clear eyes.
After watching those two games I looked at his scores. They gave him quite poor grades in both games.
Not sure what they saw that I didn't see. My guess is two-fold:
1. Several times he gave up catches on in-breakers like glance routes. The actual play was an RPO, where it's his job to maintain leverage outside and deep first. His LB is supposed to get depth to protect that inside glance route. They stepped up and took the bait, big time. Could Karnley have played that better and been a little more attached while keeping his leverage? Yes, he could. Do I blame those on him really? Not really. Asking him to press (no jam) to the field side, play sail technique (eyes on QB), have deep outside without help, AND stick a glance is reserved for the best CB's. Karnley isn't that yet, I agree. My guess is PFF put those multiple catches down as negative graded plays where I don't.
2. He gave up two deep passes off the top of my head. One against Colorado where a giant WR went deep and beat his press off release. Karnley recovered, caught up with him and had excellent coverage. The pass was underthrown, he had his arm in between the WR arms, but the WR held on. I graded that as a nice play by both. They probably didn't based on review of game report. Second one was on 3rd down, WR went deep along sideline again. He was in phase, on left hip of WR, QB made a perfect throw. Originally ruled incomplete due to his coverage forcing him to sideline and eating his room. No help. Replay overturned the call on a close call that I didn't think the WR had the foot down. Good coverage to me, better offense, but his grade seemed to reflect it as negative.
I'm going to look for the UCF game since I'm told it was awful and see if I come to the same conclusions.
As I evolve in doing this (more for fun these days) I reflect on what I missed in my evaluations (which I hope we all allow for everyone to get some wrong). On Frédérique, I liked him. Honestly, I did. I just didn't grade him like a freshman starter. Mack was that team's #1 CB, but Frédérique has more talent.
Same deal here. Taco was their #1 CB on name etc. but this kid was legitimately better to my eyes and was just a freshman.
Take it all for what it's worth (said again for effect).
