Quez Jackson Declares for the Draft

bobongo

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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

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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

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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.
 
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