Colts’ Week 18 QB Evaluation: Like anyone cares.

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For these of you new to this, I’ll publish key QB stats every week judging how effectively the upcoming opponent QB has carried out. Sure, O-Line, receivers, and play-calling influence these numbers however they’re primarily QB measures. I’ll in all probability modify the charts all through the season. Commentary can be temporary however be happy to let me know within the feedback that stats aren’t every little thing. (click on charts for bigger view)

It’s fairly becoming that Joe Flacco wraps an 8-9 season with a efficiency that’s finest described as . . . “ it’s positive”.

HOW WELL?

Flacco had no turnovers, so his solely massive destructive play was a 4th & 1 sack, however he didn’t have many optimistic performs both, so his total EPA was beneath 0. That additionally led to a low Move Success Price.

He was principally common in a very powerful stats.

HOW FAR?

He had too many incompletions on the day, though some deeper passes made up for that to provide him a good yards per try.

His depth of targets and completions remained excessive this week.

TO WHO?

He did a very good job of spreading the ball round.

HOW ACCURATE?

Flacco once more removed the ball shortly.

HOW FAST?

He didn’t maintain on to the ball lengthy particularly given his depth of targets. On the yr, Time to Throw was not a difficulty for both QB.

TO WHERE?

Flacco prevented the center of the sector just like the plague. Most likely not a very good factor.

DASHBOARD

(Use the right-left arrows to toggle between stats for the week and the season).

arsr,
edp,
opd,
sg%,
oz%,
pr%,
ttt,
adot,
ay/c,
cmp%,
cpoe,
yac,
yacoe,
ypa,
scr%,
ta%,
sck%,
aa%,
aay,
ny/d,
1st%,
td%,
to%,
epa/d,
psr

• This was a run heavy sport on a day when the run sport was working (twenty sixth edp, third arsr).
• Flacco was not pressured a lot in any respect and relative to his time to throw, that means excellent safety (sixteenth pr%, ninth ttt).
• He threw it deep, however had bother connecting on many makes an attempt (third adot, twenty fourth cmp%)
• YAC was low, however given the depth it was greater than anticipated (twenty first yac, 14th yacoe), which helped enhance his yards per try (14th ypa)
• He handled strain by throwing the ball away, however he took a number of sacks too (4th ta%, ninth sck%). Given the little strain he noticed, he deserted too many performs, which was a drag on his total yardage effectivity (eleventh aa%, sixteenth ny/d).
• He didn’t throw many first downs or TDs, which triggered a dip in total EPA effectivity (twenty third 1st%, twenty fourth td%, twenty second EPA/d)

It was a C- efficiency in a sport that didn’t want a lot from the passing sport.