Completion % is a misleading stat because the QB can dink and dunk the ball all over and have a high completion %. The one stat I like to look at for passing efficiency is Yards Per Attempt. TA was 9.3 yards per attempt against FAU. That's pretty good.
Going into the season I wanted to see a more vertical passing game. NU definitely did that in game 1.
Glad you said it. A lot of people on here eat up on high percentage numbers around the nation.
Remember when you threw out some stats and then you said something like, "waiting for the next poster to say how stats can be misleading"?
Any stat can be misleading, but there is a near direct correlation between accuracy percentage and being a good or great quarterback. If you don't believe that I don't know what to tell you other than to go look at All-American and Heisman finalist quarterbacks over the last 10 years and notice what they have in common.
Yards Per Attempt can be equally as misleading, as can any other singular statistic.
Yes it can. You're right. To be clear I didn't argue against any of that. All I said was that I thought a lot of people get hung up on completion percentage. I DID NOT say that QB's with HIGH completion percentage weren't good, or couldn't be. That is you putting words in my mouth. Which you seem to be pretty good at in discussion. However, the point ultimately being made was that you don't have to have uber high completion percentage to be great. TA's abilities, for example, have had the offense tailored to him. To put him in the best position to be successful.
As for my comment earlier this year about stats. The point I was making is that some people will use that comment to throw anything they don't agree with aside, usually because of denial. Some use stats to fit their agenda of course but others choose to disregard for whatever reason.
R- suck it Trebek, I agree.
