Originally posted by Barbarian
Okay... facts are, as for QB Rating, Jays 79.8 Currently has him 13th among guys that were starting as of last week. Not great, but not bad, definately could use an improvement, an improvement that I expect to see when the O-Line pulls their collective heads out of their butts and gives Jay more than 2.6 seconds to throw the damn ball.
As far as passes per game... so what?
Ummm, I thought the idea was to run Ricky till he pukes, facts are that those fewer numbers of passes make things like the INT on that Hail mary at the end of the Houston game look much bigger.
I mean, jesus christ folks... lets do a little experiment shall we?
First, lets see which QB's in the league have lower QB Ratings than Jay. Shall we?
Jake Delhomme,
Kyle Boller,
Tommy Maddox,
Jon Kitna,
Drew Brees,
Tom Brady,
Rich Gannon,
Doug Johnson,
Joey Harrington,
Kerry Collins,
Aaron Brooks,
Trent Green,
Jeff Garcia,
Jeff Blake,
David Carr,
Donovan McNabb,
Kelly Holcomb.
Now thats a big list of guys that wish they were throwing as well as Fiedler... add in jays rushing stats as well, and the list of QB not playing up to his standards grows slightly larger.
Now... lets get back to my point about fewer passes skewing the stats... lets go back to that Hail Mary pick, shall we?
Jays Current QB Rating 79.8 (13th)
Now what if jay hadn't thrown that Hail mary... after all, it's a tossup and not an honest guage of the way he plays... without that one single pass suudenly we have this.
QB Rating W/out the Hail Mary: 84.6
Allmost a full 5 QB Rating points from one single toss up (lets call it what it is, hail marys are hardly passes, their tossups) that Jay had no controll over... oh, and that QB Rating would be good for 7th overall among NFL starters. (tied with Bledsoe)
So as you can see, the fewer number of passes actually hurt Jays numbers, because the BS things like Hail Mary picks are weiged even heavier.