What if I told you that analytics seek to remove the player from the situation to provide a more accurate representation of that player's performance? That's literally why they exist.
Naming players tells us nothing about a player's ability or talent. For example, Courtland Sutton was a Pro Bowl receiver before Russ arrived, but you didn't name him earlier. So using fan recognition as a tool for evaluation is silly.
Which analytics?
Film will tell a million times more, though. That's why the players, coaches, and personnel people watch film all week, or should be at least.
Analytics are great for the draft, giving overviews for teams (still have to watch the film to find out why.), finding a money-ball edge in certain areas that are undervalued, And some decisions in a football game like whether to go for it or not.
Watching Geno stare down his first read, miss open guys, throw into double coverage, get the ball out late, run himself into sacks, etc.
QB is too complicated of a position to boil down to merely numbers. Unless they are putting up great numbers for a sustained period of time, then it's a no brainer at that point. They are producing.
It's why the flawed career passer rating will tell you who the best QBs of all-time are. They produced for a sustained period of time. (It now should be broken down into eras, due to the rules softening up, as its slants towards newer players.)
Geno's numbers since TB last year, (14 games), Are mediocre and trending down, why?
Put on the film and you'll see what I listed above.
Geno started 6-2, and was playing like a top 3 QB last year to start the season.. He was putting up numbers up to that point that only MVPs had ever done. He got me on the bandwagon included, and I am guy that's hard to win over.
Since then he's 6-8, trending downward. He's on pace to only throw 17 TDs for this season. Terrible in the red zone (was last year as well, but has gotten worse.)
He has the talent to play better is the silver lining. He led the league last year in big time throws, he is accurate, he is a leader, but he simply needs to start playing better. He has too much around him to be this underwhelming.
The O-Line isn't an excuse because I saw him play a whale of a game in DET without one.