How do you measure improvement if you "could give a crap about stats." Like it or not, football performance and improvement is measured by stats!WildRebel wrote:Stats....I could give a crap about stats. They DO not give a full assessment of a player. Perhaps some of these stats are lower due to other play makers on the field and not just one man doing all the work because I saw a d*** good defense this year and it wasn't just golson doing it. How about I go dig up some below average defensive tackle that will never make it out of college and compare his stats with nkemdiche...will that mean he's better? Anyone in their right mind can see Bo Wallace was a better qb this year. Did I say he's an awesome qb...no, but he has gotten better.
I actually laugh when you say prewitt and golson hasn't gotten better under freeze. Get off the stat sheet and watch them play, then go back and watch a couple of years ago. Difference is, the whole team has gotten better.
Points allowed, yards allowed, points scored, and yes... WINS and LOSSES are all stats!
But for a moment, let's step into a hypothetical world where we measure football performance excluding stats. Would maturity be a key component? Sederious threw a Freaking punch yesterday... improvement? Wallace made not 1 but at least 2 horrible decisions on passes thrown in critical situations yesterday that resulted in momentum ending interceptions... Improvement? These aren't kids anymore! Any of them would be tried as an adult in a court of law, why not in the court of public opinion.
I think it's fair to look at their totality of work and evaluate them according to their improvement or digression based on stats. You claim as a whole we have shown improvement. Just this season we've shown digression over the past 5 or six weeks!
I hope we pull the miracle upset in the Egg Bowl, but that won't change the digression we've witnessed the past month climaxing with the 30-0 blowout yesterday.
Hotty Toddy... Thank God it's Basketball Season