phragle said:
What do you think is wrong? I think that when Jones was recorded at Other, he was actually either playing 3-4 OLB or 4-3 DE. Would that explain what you think doesn't make sense?
2 things:
1) If your theory is right, and they just accidentally miscategorized his position, it would be a pretty big coincidence that he had crazy production on plays where they miscategorized. I'd expect it to just be a random subsection of play.
2) I have some insight into how PFF charts position (I applied for a job with them last offseason and ran through participation charting for a couple games before withdrawing my application) and they put this stuff in spreadsheets with elaborate field codes to make sure people don't screw this stuff up. If you put Jones at RLB (other) instead of ROLB and it doesn't match the number of LBs, it's going to throw an error. They also check this stuff later; you see them retroactively fix stuff all the time. So while I could see a couple plays off here or there, I doubt it's very many - and it still doesn't explain why those plays are disproportionately productive.
New theory: Jones lines up on the right side ~90% of the time, but he does line up on the left side some. He had 2 sacks and 9 hurries from the left side. I bet Palazzolo forgot to count those, just running checks for RE, RDE, RDT, and ROLB, but he included them in the total number of pass rushes. That would explain most of the "missing" production, and leave the "other" production - 1 sack, 1 hit, 3 hurries - way more in line with the other stuff.