Dak is the 4th most accurate QB in the league

[Cboyfan4ever]

Sick of the Dak is not accurate narrative

Hard to be inaccurate on 5 yd passes.

 

[catiii]

 

[Beast_from_East]

I would hope.

He’s not throwing the ball more than 10 yards very often.

Exactly...........Captain check down should be at the tops of the league in completion percentage.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Dak's accuracy is up because he is throwing shorter than at any time in his entire career.

His yards per attempt for 2023 is 6.3.......................this is lower than any previous season since Dak has been in the NFL.

Hard to be inaccurate when every pass is thrown to a receiver only 5-6 yards down field.

Just saying.

 

[KaikacraigP]

I love stupid things like this. You know who was constantly at the bottom of the pack in air yards?

Noted inaccurate quarterback Drew Brees.

Dak for Kirk. Straight up.

 

[Blue&Silver]

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Also my sarcasm was lost in translation I think

Sure, statistically their first 3 years were close touchdowns, to INT were close. After Wentz trashed his knee he never got back to that level. That's what I meant. What I was trying to get at was Wentz was the 2 pick in the draft and we got the same production or better from Prescott who was drafted in the later rounds. We got a steal.

 

[Blue&Silver]

Dak's accuracy is up because he is throwing shorter than at any time in his entire career.

His yards per attempt for 2023 is 6.3.......................this is lower than any previous season since Dak has been in the NFL.

Hard to be inaccurate when every pass is thrown to a receiver only 5-6 yards down field.

Just saying.

He's running a West Coast offense, or a variation. It is an offense based on short passes. See Eagles under Andy Reid. It's based on a lot of screen passes, and short passes to get the ball out early so he doesn't get sacked. Our front-line isn't that good right now so it's a must. It's by design. Has nothing to do with Prescott

 

[glimmerman]

Let’s hope be moves up..

 

[Gambit]

Sure, statistically their first 3 years were close touchdowns, to INT were close. After Wentz trashed his knee he never got back to that level. That's what I meant. What I was trying to get at was Wentz was the 2 pick in the draft and we got the same production or better from Prescott who was drafted in the later rounds. We got a steal.

Thank you, and yes, Dak was a steal in that draft

 

[McMicah]

Not pointed at any single QB but I wish advanced stats or PFF would grade accuracy more granularly.

Accuracy should be on a scale. For instance, on a deep throw, if your receiver has to stop and come back, that’s a ‘catchable ball’ but not very accurate compared to a dime or where the receiver only has to adjust their pace some. Same with crossers or slants where you got the back shoulder or make them leap and expose them to hits. All those are ‘catchable’

To me, there’s a massive difference between hitting someone in stride vs ‘he’s a professional. He should catch that’. A lot of game Circumstance goes into that but I’m sure someone could figure out a statistical formula

 

[Cowboysheelsreds058]

Hard to be inaccurate on 5 yd passes.

Lol

 

[CowboyFrog]

Underrated comment. I wouldn't use it strictly as a Dak bashing tool as hes really had just one game where he needed to sling the ball around so far, but just speaking in general if you only had one stat to evaluate a QBs value this might be the one I would take. Obviously you need to factor in things like the supporting cast, but Y/A gets slept on.

have to factor in the Scheme being run, if the scheme has deep routes in only 10% of the plays this stat will be heavily skewed.. example, anything thats 2nd a 5 or fewer we are gonna scheme short cross with counter flairs concept but anything 3rd and 8 or longer we will include go routes and such.. the defense is going to also change the scheme to the down and distance also.. its a SCHEME stats more than a QB stat... now maybe as a career stat you could get a good gauge on what the QB likes to do i guess.

 

[Flamma]

Exactly...........Captain check down should be at the tops of the league in completion percentage.

4th most accurate, with 1 game ending pick.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

4th most accurate, with 1 game ending pick.

And throwing 2 and 3 yards per attempt

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

The strategy of throwing high percentage short passes will ultimately fail. An offense needs a credible deep threat to make defenses back off. I'm not talking about one long jump ball on a go route either. The offense must force the defense to spread out.

 

[plymkr]

I'm trying to come up with a name for the offense. I prefer Dak compatible over Dak friendly since this is the offense they have to go with because of his limitations.

How about the nickname: ”5 and under”

 

[thunderpimp91]

have to factor in the Scheme being run, if the scheme has deep routes in only 10% of the plays this stat will be heavily skewed.. example, anything thats 2nd a 5 or fewer we are gonna scheme short cross with counter flairs concept but anything 3rd and 8 or longer we will include go routes and such.. the defense is going to also change the scheme to the down and distance also.. its a SCHEME stats more than a QB stat... now maybe as a career stat you could get a good gauge on what the QB likes to do i guess.

I would agree that you still need to take into account the bigger picture but in general yards per attempt shouldn’t be skewed too much based on scheme since it’s based on attempts and not completions. If it’s a vertical based offense that takes a lot of down field shots yeah you’ll see bigger gains however you’re also likely to see more incompletions. A more dink & dunk offense will have fewer large gains but in theory will see fewer 0s that bring the average down too. It’s not the end all be all in terms of stats but over a larger sample size I feel does give you a good look at a QBs efficiency.

 

[Cydios]

90% of his passes are under 5 yards....

 

[Captain-Crash]

he's trying to keep the throws closer to his number. shrugs...

 

[StarLord]

I countered it with EPA.

I'm not trying to be insulting, I don't know that you're dumb. I just genuinely think your refusal to acknowledge - let alone understand - any sense of nuance or context means is on par with dumb people.

You don't even answer very basic questions. I'll try again.

Why would a quarterback with a lead be throwing often or downfield?

I don't follow any stat pages, but is there a recorded metric for QB stats when they are behind in points. That would interesting to follow.