Seahawks free safety Quandre Diggs seems to have a bone to pick with some unnamed people who judge players despite not knowing assignments and game-planning.
Here’s what he shared on Twitter yesterday morning.
Buy Seahawks TicketsIt’s funny to me that people who has no idea of game planning or assignments for each week try to tell mf’s what they should or shouldn’t be doing.
— Nino (@qdiggs6) September 19, 2023
Diggs could be talking about any number of people, but our best guess is that he’s upset with the folks over at Pro Football Focus, who have graded him out horribly so far this season.
According to PFF’s current grades, Diggs is at 30.1 overall with a poor 48.4 grade in run defense and an atrocious 37.0 mark in coverage. Diggs isn’t alone in this department, either. In fact, two of his teammates have also gotten extremely negative grades from PFF in 2023.
Julian Love is currently graded out even worse than Diggs in coverage at 30.7. That makes him the only NFL safety who’s rated worse than Diggs with 11 or more snaps this year.
Coby Bryant also has a putrid grade, and these three are the three lowest-graded safeties in the league through two weeks:
So, do the Seahawks have literally the three worst safeties in the NFL right now? Of course not. This is clearly about something Seattle’s defense is doing.
Perhaps the problem is that the team’s lack of a pass rush up front is putting a lot of pressure on the back end of their defense in general. In Week 1 against LA in particular Seattle played a lot of soft zone concepts, leaving their DBs out to dry as Matt Stafford shredded them over and over while rarely getting so much as a whiff of pressure. Things were better in Week 2 against the Lions, but clearly PFF doesn’t like what they’ve seen so far.
Not everyone agrees with their analysis, though. For what it’s worth, according to Pro Football Reference Diggs has only been targeted twice this year and hasn’t allowed a catch. They also have him credited with only one missed tackle, while PFF has him with four. We wouldn’t presume to understand modern coverages, but they can’t both be right.
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