Originally posted by Furlow:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Waterbear:
Originally posted by Furlow:
Cooper Rush's stats this year:
7 games (5 starts)
150 yards/game
58.4 completion %
6.5 yards/attempt
5 TD's (3.1 TD %)
3 INT's (1.9 INT %)
80.5 QB rating
60.8 QBR (7th in the NFL)
I'd bet money you've never watched him play.
I will piggy back on that.. Rush had jerry contemplating on sitting Dak
Yeah okay. He's going to sit his $40M/year franchise QB for Cooper Rush. Y'all say Jimmy gets carried but want to give credit to Rush. Pathetic.
I can't tell if this is deliberate obfuscation/trolling or genuine confusion. Rush played well enough for four of his five games that there was a minor controversy in Cowboy fan land about whether Prescott should retain the starting job. That's WHAT. HAPPENED. I'm sorry it's inconvenient to your argument about QBR, but HE PLAYED WELL, PERIOD. And then in his last game, he absolutely shat the bed and everyone came back to reality.
In other words,
Cooper Rush's performance returned to the mean, as I've been trying to explain to you about how these things work. You've heard the phrase, "He's going to turn into a pumpkin," have you not? It's a reference to Cinderella, who has a pumpkin magically turned into a rich looking coach so she can mingle among high society. But when the clock struck midnight, her beautiful dress turned to rags, her teamster turned into a mouse, and her coach turned into a pumpkin. That's what happened to Rush. He played ABOVE HIS MEAN for a few games, and then the laws of statistics came crashing down upon him, and he returned to what he truly is.
The very same thing is going to happen to Jimmy, except he's going to finish with a higher QBR. He's been in the top third of QBR his entire career, and he will be again by the end of this season. But first, the statistical anomalies (his horrid performance against Denver, and his two below average performances against the Chiefs and Falcons) will need to be counterbalanced by games that are more normal to his output. And if he's truly improved, by the end of the season we'll see more great games from him, and he'll finish higher than the 13th ranking he finished in QBR last year, and the 12th he finished in 2019.