10-17-2022, 06:52 PM
(10-17-2022, 06:37 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Great post. In his best years (2011-2015), Dalton was ranked 14th in EPA per play. There are a couple of ways of "factually" looking at this - relative ranking, and Z-Score. Dalton ranked 14th out of 37 QBs that logged over 1000 dropbacks from 2011-2015. Slightly above average. From a Z-Score perspective, he scored a 0.28.
0 is perfectly average
1 is good
2 is fantastic
3 is generational
Dalton was slightly above average in the 2011-2015 campaigns. He fell off after that, but so did the rest of the team. We always knew this, too. Dalton needed a talented roster to produce. Once that talent started dipping, he wasn't able to compensate.
Exactly. He was a solid QB but not good enough to elevate a bad roster. After the beatings he took and switching coordinators every year for roughly 7 years straight, I don't think he's the same guy he was at 25 that he is at 35.
That said, I can't stand the hyperbole. He wasn't a backup. He didn't suck. Also, most years he was here, we weren't really in good spots to take a QB anyway. Not that every QB in the draft is Joe Burrow.
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