Quez Jackson Declares for the Draft

[bobongo]

There are some useful defensive stats.

Here’s an analogy, though: if you take 9 years to graduate high school, you might set the record for most exams taken at your school, but that doesn’t mean you’re a good student—you probably have a lot of F’s and D’s. What PFF is trying to do is give you the exam grades.

A better analogy would be if a student took so many exams because he was taking them for his classmates who kept failing them.

 

[croberts]

I'm talking not about the overall defense, but Quez. Tommy Nobis unofficially had 296 tackles (a record that will never be broken) in 1966 on a horrid defense, but he was obviously a stellar linebacker. If individual rankings are lowered because one played on a bad defense, the rankings are bogus. It isn't Quez's fault he had to make so many tackles.

Like minds. All I could think about was the crazy Nobis #s.

 

[bobongo]

Like minds. All I could think about was the crazy Nobis #s.

Nobody will ever break that record - nobody, ever. That's twice the number the league leader gets every year in the NFL in a 16-game season. Nobis did it in 14 games. Imagine that he averaged 21 tackles a game. Unfortunately, official records of tackles weren't kept until around 2000, amazingly.

 

[alagold]

Knew this one was coming. Was our best player on defense

yep, this is going to hurt --mostly because we have little behind him now