Originally posted by thl408:
Originally posted by jonnydel:
Originally posted by boast:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Finished reviewing Eagles-49ers. Jimmy G.'s avg. pass traveled 3.6 yards past LOS - lowest of any Wk. 2 starter.
— Sheil Kapadia (@SheilKapadia) September 21, 2021
Missed throws usually considered "routine" for NFL QBs. Ranked 25th out of 31 in CPOE.
Wonder how many games like that he can afford and still keep the starting job.
that last sentence shows this guy is full of s**t.
Like I always say, numbers lie and liars use numbers. You can say he had the lowest air yards - we ran like 12 effing screens. Why? How good was our run game? Serious question. How good? We had one big run to Hasty - late in the game AFTER we ran about 11 screens and before that we were at about 2 yards per carry.
PHI's D line was penetrating aggressively every. single. play. It was an attempt to slow them down. It worked. It opened up a big run to set up a touchdown late in the game.
But sure, "lowest of any week 2 starter" without any context to the chess match of the game. It's why I don't give 2 rat farts about these kinds of "analysis".
I keep saying that air yards is a function of the offense/gameplan, not the QB. Especially when using that stat for one game. Screen passes take the decision making process out of the QB's hands because he has to throw the screen pass - he has no choice, he's executing the playcall. If Jimmy attempted a hail mary, would that bump the air yards up to 5? Is that how that stat works? If so, that illustrates how silly that stat is.
Exactly. The Eagles were also playing tons of soft zone, forcing short throws underneath - that was their game-plan. Unless Jimmy G was just gonna YOLO it, it was gonna be a lot of short completions for most of the day.