Following the loss of pittsburgh steelers star pass rusher t.j. watt to the dpoy, a slew of people argued that he was unworthy of the award despite dominating virtually every statistical category over winner myles garrett. Micah parsons, a dallas cowboys pass rusher, was one of those critics who made him look foolish. T.j.’s brother j.j. was asked about parsons’ criticism on the pat mcafee show, and all he could do was laugh: tough to take him seriously “i think the internet handled that well,” watt said. “i think it was handled correctly,” he said. We’re dealing with this, man. “…and the figures show that we’re dealing with this.” But not the figures. And here are the statistics. But the figures aren’t exactly accurate. But, look at the statistics. “but wait a minute.” After attempting to use espn’s pass rush win rate metric as the basis for his top five pass rusher rankings, j.j. was mocking parsons.
Watt was left out of parsons’ top five, citing his low pass rush rate and teammate alex highsmith’s higher rate. Except, he didn’t. t.j. came in fourth place in the pass rush win rate, much higher than parsons’ two players, nick bosa and maxx crosby, who had ranked ahead of him. With j.j. displaying a lot of praise for watt during the season, he should have kept parsons from lighting him up for his uneducated interpretation was truly professional, even though it was funny to watch him try his best to bite his tongue.
