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We've reached the quarter mark of the season, and after Sunday's win over the Saints, things couldn't be any sunnier in Cowboys Nation. The Cowboys are racing up the Power Rankings charts, DeMarco Murray is chasing records, national football writers are swooning as they write about the Cowboys O-line, the Landry Shift has made some of the most jaded and weary Cowboys fans feel all warm and tingly inside. Heck, even our little blog is back to its accustomed No. 2 position among SB Nation NFL blogs as interest in all things Cowboys has noticeably picked up.
Bill Parcells, who seemingly has a soundbyte for every occasion in life, has a Parcells-ism for exactly this situation:
"Don't eat the cheese."
At the quarter mark of the season, it's important to remember that the Cowboys have already played four games this season, and not just one the one game against the Saints. And as gratifying, exhilarating, and negative-nancy-shut-upping as the game was, there was plenty that went wrong over the entire four games played to date.
Which is why today we'll take a look at the positional rankings (or percentile rankings) of the Cowboys players over the entire four weeks of play.
The idea behind positional rankings is to find a metric that makes all players in the league comparable. Currently, the only service that offers a metric for every single player in the league is Pro Football Focus (PFF), but instead of looking at the grades they assign to the players, we're going to look at where a given player is ranked relative to the other players in the league at his position .
Example: PFF ranks wide receivers by the cumulative grade they have received so far this season. That ranking lists all 111 wide receivers who played at least 25% of the snaps for their team over the first four games. Going by their receiving grade only, Dez Bryant is ranked as the 14th best wide receiver in the league, Terrance Williams is the 35th, and Cole Beasley the 73rd.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...-dallas-cowboys-players-rank-versus-NFL-peers
Bill Parcells, who seemingly has a soundbyte for every occasion in life, has a Parcells-ism for exactly this situation:
"Don't eat the cheese."
At the quarter mark of the season, it's important to remember that the Cowboys have already played four games this season, and not just one the one game against the Saints. And as gratifying, exhilarating, and negative-nancy-shut-upping as the game was, there was plenty that went wrong over the entire four games played to date.
Which is why today we'll take a look at the positional rankings (or percentile rankings) of the Cowboys players over the entire four weeks of play.
The idea behind positional rankings is to find a metric that makes all players in the league comparable. Currently, the only service that offers a metric for every single player in the league is Pro Football Focus (PFF), but instead of looking at the grades they assign to the players, we're going to look at where a given player is ranked relative to the other players in the league at his position .
Example: PFF ranks wide receivers by the cumulative grade they have received so far this season. That ranking lists all 111 wide receivers who played at least 25% of the snaps for their team over the first four games. Going by their receiving grade only, Dez Bryant is ranked as the 14th best wide receiver in the league, Terrance Williams is the 35th, and Cole Beasley the 73rd.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...-dallas-cowboys-players-rank-versus-NFL-peers
