

Player Card Reference Guide
Curious about what a term means, or what a metric is measuring on a player card? Look no further! Term Description Usage & Role Age: Quarterbacks current age. EXP: Years played in the NFL. Games: Games played in the current season. Snaps: Total snaps graded in the current season. QB Tier: Personal opinion based off film/statistics/metrics on where QB belongs in an S to F tier system. Archetype: Generalized profile that categorizes a quarterback by their traits, skill set, pla

IamCogs
Dec 28, 20253 min read


A look into the 2024 NFL season using TPR
I finally got around to finishing up the full on TPR (True Passer Rating) scores for every QB who made a start in the 2024 season. (the one caveat I would like to point out is that sacks were counted wholesale, PFF gives us QB at fault sack data but not on a per game basis, so the 2024 grades for TPR will be using raw sack data adjusted by the league average of QB at fault sacks. That number is calculated using this database. ) It is also worth noting that these rankings are

IamCogs
Nov 24, 202520 min read


Explaining How I Grade Film
Updated: 12/31/2025 I will sometimes get questions both what my process is when it comes to grading, and how I determine what to grade a specific play (Good, Bad, Poor, Etc.) I'm putting all that info here so public eyes can see and better understand my process. The Grading Process I actually have a Tweet covering this with a video, please see below! How Do I Grade These Plays? Well, a lot goes into that. Basic Guidelines: Try to be as “fairly” unforgiving as possible, when i

IamCogs
Jul 17, 20255 min read


No Justin Fields Reviews
I think I've said a few times that I was going to post Justin Fields review from the 2023 season. With all that's going on and the new...

IamCogs
Jul 7, 20251 min read


Explaining the True Passer Rating: Addressing the Limitations of Legacy Metrics
**This article was edited 8/1/25 due to a parentheses error causing incorrect calculations.** Nine months ago, Secret Base released a video titled " Correcting the NFL’s passer rating lie " which takes a wonderfully deep dive into how limiting the NFL Passer Rating truly is when it comes to accurately representing how well—or how poorly—a quarterback actually played. Its rigid constraints on maximum (158.3) and minimum (0.0) values make it a flawed metric. I loved it. But it

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Jun 18, 20258 min read

