Pressures.

e.g. "He's ranked 4th in QB pressures this year." Wow! Give that man one billion dollars for causing an OL to give ground or the QB to step up in the pocket. How is that even a measure of performance?

Pressure is actually extremely important.

Phantom pressure can cause some shit QBs to hesitate and end up eating an unnecessary sack and even force the great ones into making bad decisions/throws leading to turnovers.

Slightly off topic, but I get really sick of hearing shit like "Conleys 3 cone was in line with Julio Jones ehrmagawd"

QBR/Punter Setups/Hiddens TDs.

All stats are a chump's game, really, and typically manipulated to fit one's preconceived notions. All these "individual stats" are misleading in the TEAM sport of football. None get their stats w/o help from the others.

All that really matters is winning enough games to compete in the postseason, and then hoping the team can be healthy enough to put strong games in then.

Fantasy Football player stats, and player rankings are the fast track to Idiocracy. Just something for the kiddies and FF losers to fap it out to.

Understood. Does every pressure lead to an incomplete pass / interception / sack? Nope. Not all pressures lead to those effects you described, if they did- then the 'pressure' stat would be valid.

Pressure is important, I completely agree...but to use it as a measure of performance is like trying to introduce sabermetrics to football. What's next-- the explosive-first-step stat?

i'd like to see a YAC for tacklers. as in, are you blown up backwards (e.g. ramik 'reverse pivot' wilson) or can you stop em in their tracks.

i bet you'll see a very drastic trend for bob sutton's defense.

Yep. Derek Carr is 7th in Completion% and 20th in Y/A. Cousins in 2nd in completion% and 21st in Y/A (with Thielen and Diggs...what a worthless turd).

Mahomes is 15th in Completion% and 1st in Y/A (Fitz only has 246 attempts, he doesn't count).