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PrettyFunnyFools. If I'm not mistaken 2 of the teams they rank ahead of the Cards LOST to them? Not sure but I seem to recall that.
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Anyone being above the Cardinals invalidates the whole thing

You can make arguments against us but if they're using metrics or stats it makes no sense. The Cards have the largest point differential in the whole league, 111 points, second is Buffalo at 105 but they have 2 losses. Dallas has only 1 loss but their point differential is 59 in 6 games so they not only have a loss we don't have their wins are by a smaller margin. If you want to rank a 1 loss team it should be the Bucs who gave Dallas their only loss. Beat the Rams head to head in their stadium, beat the Browns with multiple starters and coaches out. We're not going unbeaten and I can certainly understand a claim we might not be the best team but PFF always claims they use metrics to rank this stuff so this makes no actual sense. Dallas their 2 best wins, the Chargers and the Pats, are those better wins than us beating Titans, Rams and Browns?
 

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All four teams ranked ahead of us have much higher graded Olines (Browns didnt have them or Chubb when we played) I think thats why their grades are higher.
Seriously who the hell is Chris Collinsworth hiring over there?
I mean it looks bad. However, if Im reading it correctly its saying their "players" are playing at a higher level right? When factoring in coaching, our stars making big plays at the right time,etc we're still the best "team"

Again I could be totally looking at this wrong.
 

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People seem to always need to be reminded that PFF grades are neither a stat nor a metric. They're a summary of opinion-based grades.

PFF has cornered the market on cheap metrics (for now -- I think that whoever owns and runs the data for NextGen Stats will put this side of their house out of business). That's why many teams buy data from PFF -- then they don't have to pay $25k to a handful of Quality Control Assistants to count WRs on 3rd and 6 in the past 6 games (or whatever).
 
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People seem to always need to be reminded that PFF grades are neither a stat nor a metric. They're a summary of opinion-based grades.

PFF has cornered the market on cheap metrics (for now -- I think that whoever owns and runs the data for NextGen Stats will put this side of their house out of business). That's why many teams buy data from PFF -- then they don't have to pay $25k to a handful of Quality Control Assistants to count WRs on 3rd and 6 in the past 6 games (or whatever).

Looking at those rankings it is clear it is opinion based
 

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I still look at PFF for player grades, but it's obvious that their methodology is pretty wacky.

If a player has a 48 grade for the year, he's probably been pretty bad regardless of who is grading.
 

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