Joe B's All-22 season report card

[Mace]

A big, really big, meaty read if you have a taste to dive in to an autopsy to find the best parts or the worst about players you like or don't like. He goes through 38 players. I love this stuff, it's worthwhile to bookmark and roll around in it time to time while nothing else much is going on, and you need a Bills fix.

http://www.wkbw.com/sports/bills/joe-b-all-22-review-bills-season-report-card?google_editors_picks=true

[SpikedLemonade]

18) TE Charles Clay
2015 Season GPA: 2.77
2015 Snap Percentage: 71.07%
- Perhaps the biggest disappointment of 2015, outside of the defense’s inability to bring down the quarterback, had to be the output from starting tight end Charles Clay. Outside of his Week Three output against his former team in Miami, Clay was blatantly average whichever way you slice it. He didn’t provide the added boost to the offense that they had hoped for, and was “just a guy” more often than not. For how much he was paid, he needed to be a dynamic pass-catching option — which he was in Week Three against the Dolphins. Whether it was due to the play calls, the quarterback, or Clay himself, the receiving output just wasn’t where they needed it to be for a player making as much as he is.

[Mr. Pink]

So three of the top four graded players were defensive lineman, even though line play was pretty weak overall as evidenced by how much of a defensive dropoff this team had this year from last?

Sorry Joe B, not buying your grading.

[Crisis]

Incognito was the best player on this team if we're talking about the season as a whole. Glenn above him? Laughable.

He has Glenn having one bad game the entire year, and it was week 17? Were we watching the same guy? Chandler Jones alone turned him into a turnstile.

[Mace]

So three of the top four graded players were defensive lineman, even though line play was pretty weak overall as evidenced by how much of a defensive dropoff this team had this year from last?

Sorry Joe B, not buying your grading.

Well, remember this is game by game in context. Kyle was fine though he didn't last through, Dareus was stalwart right through, and Hughes had a good year besides his dumb penalties.

The all-22 review focuses on the players by themselves, not in the context of a failed defense. Good individual performances are not uncommon in bad team ones, and bad individual performances can be masked by good team ones.

Players can do well or poorly play by play without the context of the unit's failure around them.