PFF Stuff/I'm an idiot [+ Andy Herman grades]:

[??????] 1. WR Bo Melton: 81.2
[0.95+] 2. WR Romeo Doubs: 76.4
[??????] 3. RT Zach Tom: 72.6
[0.85+] 4. QB Jordan Love: 72.2
[??????] 5. TE Ben Sims: 69.6
[0.90+] Rhyan
[0.70+] Jacobs
[0.35+] Myers
[0.20+] Kraft

Rhyan is again the big disagreement between PFF and Herman.

[? bad tho]1. WR Jayden Reed: 40.1
[?????????] 2. WR Christian Watson: 53.3
[-0.90] 3. LT Rasheed Walker: 55.6
[+0.90] 4. RG Sean Rhyan: 56.0
[+0.20] 5. TE Tucker Kraft: 56.8

The biggest problem here is the bottom 5 graded players all play a lot of snaps. Two of the top 5 graded players don't play much and/or are strictly role players. I am watching JT O'Sullivan's The QB School (which I highly recommend). Looks to me like Walker and Tom allowed a lot more pressures than PFF suggested. I also noted that on 2 of Tom's misadventures Love is 12 yards deep. OTs should be able to push the DE wide and past the QB but Love is so deep that that doesn't work. Romo mentions it, but O'Sullivan hasn't - at least not yet as I am only about 20 minutes into O'Sullivan's video.

[+0.45] 1. LB Eric Wilson: 82.7
[Pos ??]2. LB Quay Walker: 76.8
[+0.40] 3. DE Rashan Gary: 74.0
[+0.25] 4. S Xavier McKinney: 69.1
[+0.30] 5. S Javon Bullard: 66.1

+0.10 - Clark Not enough from the $21M guy.
=0.15 - Stokes
+0.30 - Nixon and Bullard
+0.80 - Williams
-0.50 - Enagbare
-0.60 - LVN
-0.90 - Preston Smith

[-0.60] 1. DE Lukas Van Ness: 30.2
[+0.20] 2. LB Edgerrin Cooper: 34.4
[Unk ?] 3. DL TJ Slaton: 35.1
[-0.90] 4. DE Preston Smith: 37.5
[Unk?] 5. DL Colby Wooden: 55.5

Quote from Zach Kruse of Packerswire:

"Van Ness played 32 snaps, including 22 as a pass-rushers, but wasn’t credited with a pressure. He also missed two tackles. Cooper missed two tackles, gave up two completions into his coverage and earned a poor run defense grade. Slaton played 22 snaps against the run but missed two tackles and earned a poor run defense grade. Smith was on the field for a season low 28 snaps, and he didn’t register a single pressure. Wooden had a quarterback hit but wasn’t effective against the run. ....Gary produced a team-high six pressures, including two quarterback hits and his first sack since Week 1. He also had two run stops.

Gary has to provide too much of the pressure. No mention of Clark and Enagbare, who I thought had pretty good days. They are somewhere between 55.5 and 66.1, I guess. PFF wrote that "Cooper missed two tackles, gave up two completions into his coverage and earned a poor run defense grade." Well, I saw some of missed run fits/slash missed tackles. Oh, well.

Man, those are some brutal grades for the DE opposite Gary. Yeah, I saw Slaton waving at running backs, thinking okay, Slaton's about to shed and tackle the RB, which just didn't happen. I am not surprised that Jonathan Ford was activated off the IR (Slaton is a free agent in 2024 and isn't the answer at NT). Packers waive Orzech. He sucks, but he has sucked for a long time now yet had been untouchable. They did not seem to have a LS on speed dial during training camp since Orzech sucked then, too.