I've seen enough

Their third down YPA numbers are almost identical, but I actually have to correct myself. That last New Orleans games bumped Carr just under Jake's third down rating from last season (54.5 to 55.5). Delhomme's third down struggles are still the weirdest thing about last season given that he was fine on the other two downs and hadn't historically struggled in those situations. It's not unprecedented, though, as Favre was awful on first downs last year but very good on second and third.

In any case, here are the third down numbers:
55.5 rating, 50.4%, 5.1 y/a, 4 tds, 6 ints
54.5 rating, 54.8%, 5.0 y/a, 2 tds, 3 ints
59.2 rating, 50.8%, 4.6 y/a, 3 tds, 3 ints
29.9 rating, 58.3%, 4.5 y/a, 0 tds, 3 ints

 

I, too, would weep tears of joy if such a forum existed.

 

well, larry's been dead to me since he got rid of testing. you could have made that some sort of math test type forum.

 

Whatever happened to you being the official TBR Historian? I bet you'd be bumped to Sooper-Dee-Dooper Mod if you took that job.

 

wow. you're more of a historian than me. i was doing that when i was laid off back in 2002.

plus, meat does a great job of pulling up old threads. and collin with this one apparently.

 

Math resurrected it. I thought this was one of the threads magnus and I were arguing in yesterday, since it featured many of the same points.

 

edit: nm

 

Notice that the y/a is virtually the same, the completion percentage is higher and the only thing that's different is the # of TDs.

Perhaps game situation dictates this? You can throw a INT anywhere on the field but a TD is a little harder the further away you are from the end zone

Add to that his completion % was 8% higher, he didn't actually suck, he just threw less TDs on 3rd down.

 

The last line is '07 Matt Moore, dude.

 

Oh, I didn't realize that. I don't think that's fair, because those all came in positions where teams knew we were going to pass and he was coming in as a replacement in the 4th quarter. Skewed stats imho.