Pro Football Focus Highlights: The Final Stretch

1 Comment

1. 

   12th Man November 9, 2021 at 9:14 PM ET

   All these grades are interesting for reading and speculating and such, and probably are generally useful for indicating an individual team's comparative strengths and weaknesses, if any, of either. However, it occurs to me that the grades are not necessarily reliable for comparing various teams within any given category because no two teams have played the same schedule. If two teams were to be compared exclusively as to how they performed against only the identical opponents that both have played, that would be more indicative of how they match up, although home games and road games may differ, as well as at what point of the season they played, and injuries within the teams being compared as well as the opponents when the games were played. All these factors are why I don't concern myself much with such comparisons, but I do understand that the subject is something to talk about in anticipation of future games or how a particular team is progressing or declining as the season goes along. And if your job is to provide reading material for fans thinking about how their team is doing and wondering about future prospects, well...