Why Luke McCaffrey Doesn't Get More Targets & John Bates ELITE Blocking Disrespected By PFF | 'Take Command'

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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From 'Take Command' (subscribe here): Despite his good separation skills, Luke McCaffrey had limited targets in his first year and despite his ELITE blocking skills, John Bates was given poor marks by PFF, which has fans asking "Why doesn't McCaffrey get the ball more? and why doesn't PFF respect John Bates?" ... Logan and Craig break down the key reasons why Luke McCaffrey isn't targeted despite his good separation and run threw why PFF is missing the boat on John Bates blocking skills from the tight end position To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	That sports or Logan underscore Paulson 82.
0:30.0	This one came via email, Logan, from Austin, who said,
0:34.1	can you and Logan elaborate on how players who have good to great separation don't get more targets or production?
0:41.6	Luke McCaffrey comes to mind with having multiple games with the best separation, but low production.
0:46.7	I've been scratching my head why he doesn't get more targets if he can separate.
0:50.9	So just to, I think, back this up, support this with some data. I think a lot of folks look
0:56.0	at the separation data from next gen stats. And they're, you know, each game, there's like a little
1:02.2	web graphic that that next gen stats produces that's available on their website. And often Luke would
1:07.4	have the highest separation. Obviously, folks get film clips or whatever.
1:11.0	They see like, oh, Luke was open here.
1:13.7	But he obviously did not have a ton of production and didn't see a lot of balls in his
1:18.3	freshman season, his rookie year, if you will, in the NFL.
1:21.9	So why does this happen?
1:24.8	Yeah.
1:25.4	So I think a couple things.
1:27.1	One, I think the way that they
1:29.3	determine that is like its proximity to nearest defender based on GPS data. Yes. And so,
1:35.0	for example, like Logan Paulson has great separation data versus, I forget what team it was,
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