You lectured another member about not providing statistics in their argument with you about defensive improvement. I agreed with you and even gave you a “+1”. Now you have the audacity to show up on a superior statistics post and just say no? @Nebfanatic, I’m so disappointed in you. Try again, this time with statistics...
Mr. Martinez, with all due respect, your son had a very poor year. We wish him well, truly, but we need better performances to compete at this level.
I think I peed a little. :lol: This cracked me up. Oh man... too good.
Statistics don't work the way you think they do. What you have is a very very small sample size and you are claiming those results would bare out over a large sample size with 95% certainty. You would be wrong often if you assumed results over a small sample size will equate to the same results over a large sample. That is basic statistics. None of that takes into account when McCaffrey is on the field his options are much more limited than Martinez. To assume he would perform the same as he did in his incredibly small sample size over the course of the entire season is to assume he was running a full playbook in his small sample size which he did not. If you want I can find you about 100 examples of a player looking really good in a small sample size only to flop when given full usage.
This isn't even a defense of Martinez, but Luke would not have had a 85+ QBR had he played the whole season, he just wouldn't have. He was put in positions to be successful. He didn't have to make the offense successful. There is a big difference. McCaffrey will be fantastic but he is raw and I am positive if he was given the keys at the start of this season he would have thrown more picks than Martinez. He might have been more exciting, but he needed that RS for his growth at the QB position and I think everyone will be better because of it including him.
Trying to understand...are you saying the WR and TE were perfectly adequate and there was all day to throw, he just didn't do it? Or are you saying he should have been able to perform at an all conference level without WR/TE and no time to throw?
I can't think of any but in fairness I listened to a few games on the radio. Was his TD to Noa against Indiana on a rollout? Either way I agree completely with everything you said here.
He had time to find the open receivers during games. His issue was he only went with 1 read and if they were covered, he would try and force it or check down the the RB or safety throw in the flat.
And the coaches clearly don't have confidence that someone will get it done better this season. I'll trust their decision because I'm not of the crowd that thinks the back up would have been better. Both of the backups have their flaws and I'm sure there was a reason why they were backups. Vedral may run the offense well but his physical tools limit the effectiveness. McCaffrey is raw. I don't believe we would have had better results with either of them at the helm full time.