The Condemning Air Yards Stat

[McMicah]

IMO Air Yards tell you more about a QB than many other stats. I went back and manually looked at all 3 QBs in tonight’s game and looked at air yards relative to the line of scrimmage. While some screens are designed to be negative air yards, in general you want a QB that’s able to throw downfield when needed.

Kirk cousins had a net of 73 yards through the air, with everything else coming through YAC. That’s 3.7 Yards beyond the LOS per completion. Not bad bus driving.

Cooper Rush also had 73 yards on only 14 throws, and he would’ve had way more if Ceedee or Jaylen could’ve snagged their deep balls. That’s 5.2 air yards beyond LOS per completion. Well done, Coop. Way to sling it.

Dak had 22 completions, and netted a whopping 35 net air yards the whole game. He only had 8 net air yards in the whole first half! That’s 1.7 yards beyond the LOS per completion. That is objectively awful.

The question is, who do we blame this on? The Oline? The coaches for the scheme and play calling, or Dak for not seeing the field or having bad accuracy down range? Or maybe the scheme is a reflection of Daks issues.

You tell me

 

[Nexx]

Dak has regressed from being average to bad to now horrible.

 

[diamonddelts]

IMO Air Yards tell you more about a QB than many other stats. I went back and manually looked at all 3 QBs in tonight’s game and looked at air yards relative to the line of scrimmage. While some screens are designed to be negative air yards, in general you want a QB that’s able to throw downfield when needed.

Kirk cousins had a net of 73 yards through the air, with everything else coming through YAC. That’s 3.7 Yards beyond the LOS per completion. Not bad bus driving.

Cooper Rush also had 73 yards on only 14 throws, and he would’ve had way more if Ceedee or Jaylen could’ve snagged their deep balls. That’s 5.2 air yards beyond LOS per completion. Well done, Coop. Way to sling it.

Dak had 22 completions, and netted a whopping 35 net air yards the whole game. He only had 8 net air yards in the whole first half! That’s 1.7 yards beyond the LOS per completion. That is objectively awful.

The question is, who do we blame this on? The Oline? The coaches for the scheme and play calling, or Dak for not seeing the field or having bad accuracy down range? Or maybe the scheme is a reflection of Daks issues.

You tell me

From what I remember you could not find a weakspot on this entire roster.

 

[big dog cowboy]

$60M

 

[EST_1986]

$60M

Biggest contract blunder of all-time

 

[CowboyStar88]

It’s even worse than the surface numbers indicate. 1.7 yards? 9 years and 60m a year. Guy struggles with his reads and the proof is in the pudding.


Sigh

 

[Mr_437]

Waiting to hear the excuses

 

[bewp7]

well hold on maybe dak will get better as he get older and his body break down even more and maybe he will magicly get a better football iq and pocket presence and awareness in year 9-10-11-12

it could happen!!!!!

 

[McMicah]

well hold on maybe dak will get better as he get older and his body break down even more and maybe he will magicly get a better football iq and pocket presence and awareness in year 9-10-11-12

it could happen!!!!!

He just tried to use his legs once and broke lol. I cannot believe they resigned him

 

[Catpappy]

I’m an old man and he looked like an old man out there today. You can’t hide your quarterback. Sooner or later he needs to be able to sling it or run.

 

[Tabascocat]

This turned into a mini dink-and-dunk offense

 

[cowboyed]

Dak was above average and now is average at best on an ailing team with an unfavorable schedule. However, no worries as we will continue to be suckcessful.

 

[NDGAEDE]

The fact that we had to limit our franchise QB to passes at the line of scrimmage is insane. I understand they were trying to simulate a rung game. But it was almost like they were protecting Dak from throwing the ball more than 5 yds.

What is going on there? Was that the gameplan? If it was, why didn't we realize it was crap and adjust?

 

[Whirlwin]

Ridiculous stat. It’s about playcalling, dink and dunk. That’s what they call for Prescott. They make him get the ball out fast. I’m not sticking up for him or anybody else but it’s ridiculous. Just like all the rest of them. The only statistic I care about playoff wins.

 

[Whirlwin]

This turned into a mini dink-and-dunk offense

Exactly. That’s why statistics are for the end of someone’s career. They mean nothing. The only statistic that means anything is playoff success.

 

[tomsanders921]

Biggest contract blunder of all-time

Deshaun Watson has that and always will. For what they gave up for him and with all the off field issues, it's going to be hard to beat.

But Dak could easily go down as the worst cowboys contract of all time. And on his current trajectory, he could rival deshauns bad contract, but never surpass it.

 

[The Natural]

It’s Dak. He holds the ball because all of the interceptions have him spooked to make a mistake. Just look at the play where Tolbert was wide open, he’s too in his head to see the field.

 

[acr731]

The question is, who do we blame this on? The Oline? The coaches for the scheme and play calling, or Dak for not seeing the field or having bad accuracy down range? Or maybe the scheme is a reflection of Daks issues.

You tell me

If Dak's and Rush's stats were a little more equal then yes, you blame the OLine, the coaches, whatever. But since there was a clear difference, even a caveman could figure out where a large part of the problem lies.

 

[droopdog7]

Never heard of air yards but this is exactly what I was thinking about during the game. We seem to be running a college or high school offense where the qb doesn’t have any reads; just quick throws and screens.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

IMO Air Yards tell you more about a QB than many other stats. I went back and manually looked at all 3 QBs in tonight’s game and looked at air yards relative to the line of scrimmage. While some screens are designed to be negative air yards, in general you want a QB that’s able to throw downfield when needed.

Kirk cousins had a net of 73 yards through the air, with everything else coming through YAC. That’s 3.7 Yards beyond the LOS per completion. Not bad bus driving.

Cooper Rush also had 73 yards on only 14 throws, and he would’ve had way more if Ceedee or Jaylen could’ve snagged their deep balls. That’s 5.2 air yards beyond LOS per completion. Well done, Coop. Way to sling it.

Dak had 22 completions, and netted a whopping 35 net air yards the whole game. He only had 8 net air yards in the whole first half! That’s 1.7 yards beyond the LOS per completion. That is objectively awful.

The question is, who do we blame this on? The Oline? The coaches for the scheme and play calling, or Dak for not seeing the field or having bad accuracy down range? Or maybe the scheme is a reflection of Daks issues.

You tell me

cowboys suck. there is no denying. Dak is playing bad. there is no denying. but Rush played in Garbage time against prevent defense and scored a meaningless TD with a minute to go.

what was the air yards against SF, first half and second half and then garbage time?