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I've watched every Skins game on Gamepass and he pops off the screen alright...and not in a good way. He has been on the field for every single pass play and has managed one pass defense and zero INTs. He also has zero forced fumbles.
I went back and watched the Jets game coaches film because I honestly dont know everything about safety play watching my game pass condensed film. In this game he had three big plays where the ball came out. The first was on the first offensive series when he made the initial hit that spun the player around and the next Redskin hit forced the fumble. Stat wise he did nothing on this play. In reality, he was in on a turnover and will grade out positively on this play for his team. How the statistics rate him is another story.
Sure, the last two games he's had some tackles, but he isn't doing anything extraordinary, especially to say that " making more plays than any other safety right now" about anything. He is 9th among safeties in tackles, not first.
According to nfl.com he ranks fourth among all free safeties in tackles.
Goldson has more missed tackles than all 8 of those safeties in front of him in tackles. If you figure up his missed tackle rate, which is how often he misses a tackle when there is an opportunity to make one, it's also one of the highest in the league for safeties.
He does miss tackles because he tries to hit too hard and he does not wrap up good enough. The tackles he missed in the Jets game were when he hit a player and bounced off. Incidentally even though that is a bad stat, and surely shows up as a negative on your stat sheet, both of the nissed tackles in this game he hit the runner so hardcthat they were completely stopped in their tracks and tackled within 5 yards of the impact.
Pretty much the only positive thing you can say about him this year is that his penalties are down. Other than that, he is the same below average tackling/below average cover safety that he has always been. The only thing he was ever good at was big hits. You might think that he best fits as a Safety who is just used in the box as a S/LB hybrid, but that isn't how he has been used in his career. He's always been a guy who is out there in deep coverage,
Actually the Skins are not using him in deep coverage much. In the Jets game he was only responsible for deep coverage a few times the entire game.This is what Washington is doing 90 percent of the time shown below. It looks like cover two pre snap but Goldson comes crashing down into the box nearly every time and they end up playing cover three with the other safety taking deep middle and the corners taking the deep sidelines. In actuality your contention that Goldson is in deep cover a majority of the time is false.
He doesn't have excellent game film. You just said that you didn't even know he was on the field for most pass plays. Go back and look at those and see when he is targeted while in zone or in M2M.
In the Jets game he was not targeted very often in coverage. He was targeted on a play down the deep seam in which Brandon Marshall made a good play but that play was a classic example of a team exploiting the deep middle in between zones. Goldson made the tackle. See below where the Jets take advantage of the coverage by droping it in between the two players. Goldson is not at his best in deep coverage and if not for all the injuries the Skins have at DB he would probably do even less of it.
Goldson was never matched up in M2M during the Jets game that I saw. He was strictly in a downhill zone hybrid role in this game. If he was covering someone it is because they were in his zone. He's always been a guy who is out there in deep coverage, out of the box, far away from the LOS. Even PFF ranks him 83rd out of 83 safeties in coverage this year and and overall ranks him 82nd.
Well, we know the first part of that statement is false after looking at the coaches film. Please enlighten me as to how PFF gets their safety rankings out before the coaches film is even out? Are they using game film to rate their safeties? It doesn't really matter what they use quite frankly, because their "ratings" are a joke. Inside his meeting room with his coaches Goldson would have had a positive grade on the day for the Jets game. He was in on a fumble, he was in on a PBU, he had great coverage on one play that forced a 'coverage sack'. He would have had another forced fumble but the ball was ruled incomplete, he made Decker get alligator arms when he was coming downhill and caused an incompletion there. He was attacking everything the Jets did in the box area and had 7 tackles and 6 assists.He gave up one play to BM who exploited the coverage. He took one bad angle on a Chris Ivory run that went for a big gainer. And the couple of 'missed tackes' that ended up being assists anyway because he completely stopped the ball carrier in his tracks. Overall, he definitely had a positive overall grade by the only people who really count, his team. That is why I don't subscribe to PFF, because their 'stats' don't tell the real story because they have no idea how to grade a football player.
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Goldson was never matched up in M2M during the Jets game that I saw. He was strictly in a downhill zone hybrid role in this game. If he was covering someone it is because they were in his zone.
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