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STARTING QB pre-season passer rating, NFC East, 2010
2010 pre-season
2009
QB
CMP
ATT
YDS
CMP% YPA
TD
INT
RATING Pre- season Regular Season
Donovan McNabb
16 34 264 47.1 7.8 1 1 71.2 85.7 92.9
Tony Romo
26 46 287 56.5 6.2 1 2 64.3 90.1 97.6
Kevin Kolb 28 53 324 52.8 6.1 0 1 63.7 90.5* 88.9*
Eli Manning 13 26 140 50.0 5.4 0 1 50.2 66.3 93.1
In terms of passer rating, none of the NFC East QBs have delivered a particularly noteworthy performance this pre-season. In fact, it would be fair to say that all four have struggled so far. Shockingly, all four NFC East QBs have a lower passer rating than Tim Tebow (77.6). Maybe not quite as shocking, but at least a little disconcerting is to see who's at the top of the QB leaderboard this pre-season: Aaron Rodgers has racked up a 141.2 rating on 53 pass attempts, Tom Brady is a close second with a 140.6 rating on 42 pass attempts.
First team performance
Just like we can look at the starting QB numbers, we can also isolate the team performance on drives when most or all of the first-team units were on the field. To do this, I went through the play-by-plays for all the games and tried to figure out which drives still had the first units on the field and which didn't. I believe I got the numbers right, but it's not always perfectly clear from the play-by-plays which unit, particularly on defense, was on the field.
I looked at number of drives and points scored or points allowed during those drives. With that data I calculated what I'll call Equivalent Points per Game: The average number of drives per game is about 12 in the NFL. Multiplying the points per drive by 12 gives an indication of how many points the teams would have theoretically scored or allowed with their pre-season performance over four full quarters in one game.
First team DEFENSE pre-season performances by drive, NFC East
Team
Drives
Points allowed
Points allowed per drive
Equivalent Points allowed per Game
Eagles 18 14 0.8 9.6
Commanders 15 21 1.4 16.8
Cowboys
15 30 2.0 24.0
Giants
15 40 2.7 32.4
I'll be the first to point out that projecting individual drives to a full game (like you would with baseball's ERA for example) is tricky at best. There are many factors that can and do change the game situation from play to play, particularly in the pre-season. Yet the numbers do provide a glimpse of how the first team defenses have performed as a unit. And if nothing else, the numbers are an indication that the Cowboys and Giants still have work to do, and that the Commanders and Eagles would do well not to grow complacent with their pre-season performance on defense.
Obviously, you could always argue that the pre-season opponents also played a big role in these numbers. Were they playing vanilla schemes, how much did they want a pre-season win, etc. - we've been through all these arguments already - but at the end of the day, as the Cowboys defensive coordinator, you can't really be happy about these numbers.
Now the same exercise for the Offense.
First team OFFENSE pre-season performances by drive, NFC East
Team
Drives
Points scored
Points scored per drive
Equivalent Points scored per Game
Eagles 19 25 1.3 15.6
Giants 17 20 1.2 14.4
Commanders
15 16 1.1 13.2
Cowboys
13 13 1.0 12.0
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2010 pre-season
2009
QB
CMP
ATT
YDS
CMP% YPA
TD
INT
RATING Pre- season Regular Season
Donovan McNabb
16 34 264 47.1 7.8 1 1 71.2 85.7 92.9
Tony Romo
26 46 287 56.5 6.2 1 2 64.3 90.1 97.6
Kevin Kolb 28 53 324 52.8 6.1 0 1 63.7 90.5* 88.9*
Eli Manning 13 26 140 50.0 5.4 0 1 50.2 66.3 93.1
In terms of passer rating, none of the NFC East QBs have delivered a particularly noteworthy performance this pre-season. In fact, it would be fair to say that all four have struggled so far. Shockingly, all four NFC East QBs have a lower passer rating than Tim Tebow (77.6). Maybe not quite as shocking, but at least a little disconcerting is to see who's at the top of the QB leaderboard this pre-season: Aaron Rodgers has racked up a 141.2 rating on 53 pass attempts, Tom Brady is a close second with a 140.6 rating on 42 pass attempts.
First team performance
Just like we can look at the starting QB numbers, we can also isolate the team performance on drives when most or all of the first-team units were on the field. To do this, I went through the play-by-plays for all the games and tried to figure out which drives still had the first units on the field and which didn't. I believe I got the numbers right, but it's not always perfectly clear from the play-by-plays which unit, particularly on defense, was on the field.
I looked at number of drives and points scored or points allowed during those drives. With that data I calculated what I'll call Equivalent Points per Game: The average number of drives per game is about 12 in the NFL. Multiplying the points per drive by 12 gives an indication of how many points the teams would have theoretically scored or allowed with their pre-season performance over four full quarters in one game.
First team DEFENSE pre-season performances by drive, NFC East
Team
Drives
Points allowed
Points allowed per drive
Equivalent Points allowed per Game
Eagles 18 14 0.8 9.6
Commanders 15 21 1.4 16.8
Cowboys
15 30 2.0 24.0
Giants
15 40 2.7 32.4
I'll be the first to point out that projecting individual drives to a full game (like you would with baseball's ERA for example) is tricky at best. There are many factors that can and do change the game situation from play to play, particularly in the pre-season. Yet the numbers do provide a glimpse of how the first team defenses have performed as a unit. And if nothing else, the numbers are an indication that the Cowboys and Giants still have work to do, and that the Commanders and Eagles would do well not to grow complacent with their pre-season performance on defense.
Obviously, you could always argue that the pre-season opponents also played a big role in these numbers. Were they playing vanilla schemes, how much did they want a pre-season win, etc. - we've been through all these arguments already - but at the end of the day, as the Cowboys defensive coordinator, you can't really be happy about these numbers.
Now the same exercise for the Offense.
First team OFFENSE pre-season performances by drive, NFC East
Team
Drives
Points scored
Points scored per drive
Equivalent Points scored per Game
Eagles 19 25 1.3 15.6
Giants 17 20 1.2 14.4
Commanders
15 16 1.1 13.2
Cowboys
13 13 1.0 12.0
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