Interesting project up on ESPN.com right now in conjunction with Pro Football Focus. Basically, PFF rated every significant player on every team (based on snap counts), sorted them into four categories -- Elite, Good, Average and Bad -- and came up with a formula to determine how many above-average players each NFL team was away from the Super Bowl this year.

The whole, slick-looking project is accessible here, and an explanation of the methodology is available here. Especially if you're snowed in for the next couple days as it appears I will be, it's a fun way to pass the time.

We'll take a quick look at the New York Giants' end of it. PFF has them six above-average players away, which doesn't sound bad. They have only one player in the "Elite" category -- Pro Bowl rookie wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. -- and seven in the "Good" category (Johnathan Hankins, Robert Ayers, Jason Pierre-Paul, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Will Beatty, Rueben Randle and Daniel Fells).

Check out the project and click on the Giants' link and you'll see I have a bit of a rundown on where I do and don't agree with PFF's evaluations (and why). And you can decide for yourself where you do and don't agree with them. And you can look around the rest of the league to see how other teams' problems stack up with those of the 6-10 Giants. For me, I think the evaluations are generous. But with the Giants, they always seem to be -- until the season ends and we look at the record.