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 properly 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 most likely modify the charts all through the season. Commentary can be transient however be at liberty to let me know within the feedback that stats aren’t the whole lot. (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 fine”.

HOW WELL?

Flacco had no turnovers, so his solely huge damaging play was a 4th & 1 sack, however he didn’t have many optimistic performs both, so his general EPA was beneath 0. That additionally led to a low Cross Success Fee.

He was mainly common in crucial stats.

HOW FAR?

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

His depth of targets and completions remained excessive this week.

TO WHO?

He did 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 12 months, Time to Throw was not a problem for both QB.

TO WHERE?

Flacco averted the center of the sphere just like the plague. Most likely not 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 recreation on a day when the run recreation 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 superb 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 just a few sacks too (4th ta%, ninth sck%). Given the little strain he noticed, he deserted too many performs, which was a drag on his general yardage effectivity (eleventh aa%, sixteenth ny/d).
He didn’t throw many first downs or TDs, which induced a dip in general EPA effectivity (twenty third 1st%, twenty fourth td%, twenty second EPA/d)

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