Did Myles Garrett end up the DPOY conversation with a dominant performance against the Jets on TNF?
Guys. Uh Miles Garrett obviously has been in contention for the defensive player of the year award last night. He, he ended a Sacless drought of four games. He had one, he had, I think he had like 11 pressures in this game. Some ridiculous number. He was in the backfield. He’s playing against Mackay Beckett who outweighs him by like £100 but he was, I mean, they did a great job of showing him getting leverage. He, I thought he was outstanding last night. He looked back to his normal self. Do you guys believe that he locked down
the player, the defensive player of the year award last night? Well, I think it’s come down to him and uh Michael Parsons, I think are the like two heavy favorites. Obviously, you gotta with Michael Park just because Vegas has it that way, doesn’t necessarily. That’s true. That’s true. But both of them really have direct impacts on the game. I think what I like about miles is that he’s playing the run game really well. Obviously, he didn’t have the sacks for those with three or four games, but he still was very heavily involved in the run
game and teams still have the game plan around Miles Gary he still has last night, just completely lived in the backfield.
it. I hope he does. I think it’s gonna be a really interesting conversation if Baltimore locks up the one seed, I think I’d like to be a fly on the wall in the room when Miles and Kevin sit down and Kevin tries to tell him maybe you should sit this one out, you know, Miles Garrett’s gonna wanna be on the field, but he was on the field at the end of the game when the game was over. Yeah, he, you, you’re gonna have a hard time dragging him off that field, but I do think it’s
probably the right call to sit him if there’s nothing left to play for. But I, I think he’s done enough and I didn’t see it. Obviously, I was at the game, I didn’t see the broadcast, but I guess the broadcast did a nice job of integrating some of those advanced metrics that show how dominant he has been, even though you can’t just go off of one column, you can’t just go strictly off sacks. And hopefully the voters don’t do that where they just look solely at the sacks. Hopefully, you look at overall impact. You look
at some of the injuries that they’ve had the way he’s carried this team defensively. And also this sometimes does become sort of a lifetime achievement award whether you like it or not. Ok. This guy is due, he hasn’t had it yet. We’ll go ahead and anoint it to him. Miles doesn’t have one yet now should be the time he should win it in my mind. This is a no brainer. I think Miles Garrett has clearly been the best defensive player this year, whether he plays in the, in the last game or not, he’s had a
tremendous season. Uh, he, even with a much improved defensive line, he still gets double teamed way more than anybody else because everybody in the league knows he is the scariest guy you have to face and it’s no disrespect to TJ Watt. He’s a great player and teams care about him, but he is not the dominant force. If you put those guys in the exact same situation, Miles Garrett’s gonna come out on top and I saw some, some guy I never heard of who writes for the USA today, say, well, you know, TJ Watts got two
more sacks and TJ Watts got seven more tackles and he scored a touchdown by the way, that touchdown, he scored against the Browns. The ball just popped to him. It wasn’t like he made that play. A Alex Heisman made the play. The point is, and I saw Steve Palazzolo pro football book and said, so these guys play 1000 plays or whatever, more, whatever, however many plays. And you’re saying, because he has two more sacks and three more tackles, there’s so much more to look at and if you look at all the advanced statistics and not
even things that are, that are like a Pff grade, which is, you don’t even know how to figure that out. There’s other things like pressures and win rate and all this stuff where Miles Garrett dominates and you have to factor in the fact that he gets double team more than anyone else. He is a wrecking ball, a player. He should definitely win the best player of the year. I think Miles is also like top of the list or close to the top of the list on TFLS force fumbles, win rate, double team, all of those
things factor. I know sacks is the big thing that we look at and he’s not that far out of first place on that as well. But I think just overall his game is at the top of the list. He does so much and every offensive coordinator their game plan saying, how do we stop? 95? We can’t do nothing until 95 is taken care of Herb Street. We did a great job yesterday. The guy is the best analyst in the, in the league. You got some of those. Yeah, I just Pff isn’t the Bible here but
Miles Garrett is on pace to set the defensive end slash edge record in Pff in overall grade with a 94 in the season right now in a pass rush win grade at a 95 a pass rush win rate at 28.1 and a true pass rush win rate which takes out run plays and, and focuses just on pass plays at 37%. Those would break Pff single season records has done it all this season. And last night on the broadcast he was using next gen stats, which is another, you know, analytics based program and, and he just
dominates in all these areas. I don’t know who’s ultimately gonna win it. I think it should be Miles Garrett according to Van, do we have the numbers up there before? He’s an overwhelming favorite at this point. He really stood out and he’s, you know, I don’t the idea that you have to give it to the best player on the best defense. I don’t necessarily agree with that. He happens to be the best player on the best defense, but I, I think you give it to him because he’s the best player. Not just because the brown
defense is the best. Yeah, I agree. I, he’s done everything he could possibly do. He’s fought through injuries. He’s had the shoulder issue the last few weeks. I thought it affected him for a couple of weeks and lately the last couple of games he feels like he’s back to himself. I ain’t hearing that touchdown thing either because the Colts game, he stripped the ball, it just didn’t land in his lap. It, but that would have been easily. His, fortunately, I think that voter, that type is in the minority. I think that to this point are
a little bit more, uh, polished in a little bit more advanced than how they look at these things. By the way, real quick, we talked about how he could win defensive player of the year. Stansky’s wing coach of the year, Joe Flacco. I know they’re gonna give it to DEMAR Hamlin. I don’t know. I’m not so sure they shouldn’t. I’m not so sure. And I, this is DEMAR Hamlin. You give him a separate type of award for being alive, right? He, he was dead and now he’s alive. He’s, he’s played one game all season. I
don’t know how he’s comeback player of the year. Uh Joe, he’s the best story in the NFL. Isn’t there an award for best assistant coach of the year? You gotta go to Jim Swards. There you go. All right, Mike, you gotta read for us. What do you got?
