Chiefs OL ranked top 10

[Chief Roundup]

Can't post a link but I seen our OL is ranked 10 by PFF.
If our OL is ranked that high they are not the biggest issue. More evidence that Reid and Smith are the real issues with this team.

[Hootie]

PFF as a tool is like WPI to breaking Chiefs news

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

PFF as a tool is like WPI to breaking Chiefs news

Exactly. Ranked 30th in passing on some other sites. 27 PFF. That's bottom 5 either way in pass blocking, right?

[Chief Roundup]

Stats are stats no matter where they come from. No they are not perfect but they are not wrong either.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by TEX

Exactly. Ranked 30th in passing on some other sites. 27 PFF. That's bottom 5 either way in pass blocking, right?

3rd in run blocking does skew the overall ranking.
But a middle of the road OL should be good enough.

[DC.chief]

PFF is a terrible tool at grading certain (most) things. This is one of them.

[Chiefnj2]

I don't think it necessarily means you are middle of the road if your pass blocking sucks and run blocking is good. Especially for Andy's system that gives Charles less than 15 runs per game and relies upon the pass. Smith makes the pass blocking worse than it is, but even with an average QB the pass blocking would be below average.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

I don't think it necessarily means you are middle of the road if your pass blocking sucks and run blocking is good. Especially for Andy's system that gives Charles less than 15 runs per game and relies upon the pass. Smith makes the pass blocking worse than it is, but even with an average QB the pass blocking would be below average.

That's exactly the case.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

3rd in run blocking does skew the overall ranking.
But a middle of the road OL should be good enough.

I agree... The run blocking is based on a small sample size and factors QB scrambles etc. A Middle of the road line should be good enough for good QB's, but not with a QB who has a history of needing more. Dorsey can't use the same philosophy to construct an OL in KC for Smith that he did in GB, where he had a QB who could function well regardless. Just my take.

[BossChief]

Its possible that the OL is ranked highly because PFF pins most of the sacks on Alex Smith due to him holding the ball more than 3 seconds.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Stats are stats no matter where they come from. No they are not perfect but they are not wrong either.

What PFF provides are NOT "stats".

It's a few British guys sitting in a room trying to "grade" the performance of players in which they're completely clueless as to their assignments.

[oaklandhater]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Can't post a link but I seen our OL is ranked 10 by PFF.
If our OL is ranked that high they are not the biggest issue. More evidence that Reid and Smith are the real issues with this team.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=295123

[oaklandhater]

Originally Posted by BossChief

Its possible that the OL is ranked highly because PFF pins most of the sacks on Alex Smith due to him holding the ball more than 3 seconds.

This

[oaklandhater]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

What PFF provides are NOT "stats".

It's a few British guys sitting in a room trying to "grade" the performance of players in which they're completely clueless as to their assignments.

Any one can see Smith is holding on for way too long.

[hitchief]

Originally Posted by oaklandhater

Any one can see Smith is holding on for way too long.

oh my god yes, he has so much time back there that he gets complacent and then holds the ball to long cause he doesn't want to throw the ball to wide open wr's

thank the lord for the obvious pointing out once again another Alex problem holding this most excellent of teams back!