Kerry Rhodes had a Good Season

I couldn’t care less about his rating by week. This isn’t baseball, sabermetric scientific stats don’t work. Ask San Diego, all they did was spit science out at us all week, and they got throttled because science doesn’t measure heart, intimidation, size, strength, etc. Baseball is a non contact sport where similar situations repeat themselves 1000’s of times over. Football is a contact sport where this isn’t the case. What I saw this year was Rhodes miss a lot of tackles, Rhodes late on a ton of pass plays in his area, Rhodes get burned a lot fo times in man coverage, and Rhodes shy away from sticking his helmet in there and hitting somebody. I don’t care what any scientific stats say, Rhodes stunk for the first 2/3 of the season. He picked it up later on, after he lost his starting job, but he hardly had a good season. Far from it.

I’m pretty sure it isn’t the sacks that people are annoyed about. Rhodes was a different player in 2006. He made plays, he was a difference maker. No he is just a guy who is kind of good. He got paid and it seems like he didn’t want to hit, he didn’t do a good job in the film room, because he was always in the wrong spot, he would frequently get beat in man coverage, he missed a ton of tackles, he was always late to meet a wideout making a reception. He did not have a good year. He picked it up in the last 4 or 5 weeks, and then in the playoffs, but he was a liability from week one up until about week 14.

The QB rating for passes thrown at players the safeties were covering was 93.9, 114.8 and 55.2. Guess which safety was the owner of the 55.2 QB rating.

That couldn’t possibly be because the Jets have a great defense where nobody passed on them all year, where the Pats and Saints defenses suck? Lol. Put Kerry Rhodes in New England or New Orleans and I will bet every penny that I have the QB rating when going after him is miles and miles above 50. Could it be that because the Jets put so much pressure on the QB that he didn’t have a high QB rating too anybody?

for what its worth

i will say that as a fan, I don’t rewatch game tape after games. i don’t know how players ‘grade out’. i think i see more than a casual fan, but i also recognize there is more to the game than what i see.

i agree baseball and football are very different for stats – i’ve made this argument myself, but i do think there is a lot to be gained from the stats perspective. it clearly misses how weak some of the ‘hits’ rhodes put on this year were, but it also elucidates things we might not have seen otherwise.

keep the advanced stats coming!

watching the game it seemed like he was always out of position. When he sacked Philip Rivers, he didn’t even try to recover the fumble, instead taking the opportunity to brag what he done. He is a great tackler, but i think the jets need a ball hawk at safety. Someone to make teams pay for going deep.

although i think we should keep him. He was great on clark and gonzalez

Don’t think Rhodes had a good season. This year, he was constantly out of position, and it seemed as if he couldn’t make a decision as to which receiver to cover when confronted with 2 receivers in his zone. If you want to see a perfect example of it, watch the colts game when Collie an Clarke scored. He doesn’t know who to lock on to. Rhodes puts himself in a position that by the time he could make a move, the receiver had already scored. That’s just the way this season went for him. As far as his Int’s go. He had 2 in one game, and both of them were very poorly thrown balls in which they hit him in the chest without the receiver being within 3 yards of him. Hopefully Rhodes will learn from his year, work hard in the offseason, and study the secondary assignments so he isn’t out of place.
The Collie TD was the worst for me. He seems to be waiting for a RB to come into the flat, only to look back and think.. Whoops. I guess i should have covered that guy.