McKDaddy
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Funny people are so obsessed with this "Elite" label which really has no standard measurement.
Yes, Dak can play quite badly, as can every other QB who ever played the game. Startling revelations.
Folks like to talk analytics about lot of things but don't want to apply the same thinking to QB play. It's not that a QB makes a bad throw or has a bad game but the "rate" at which they do it is what separates the tiers.
I did an analysis a few years back where I looked at Drew Brees "bad" passes per game. I excluded intentional throw aways or it wasn't clear who made the mistake (things like the receiver broke inside & the ball was thrown to the boundary). His rate of bad throws was consistently single digits, generally in the 4 - 8 % range. He had one "bad" game where he was like 12%. During that same period, Dak's best game was like 15%. He was generally in the 25% range with one game being above 30%.
Now Dak has improved since then so I'm not saying this is the case now BUT it clearly demonstrates how far he was from being elite. I mean three bad passes out of thirty is still 10%. It's a lofty target, but the best in the game do it consistently.