07-28-2015, 03:31 PM
(07-28-2015, 03:21 PM)wolfkaosaun Wrote: Falcons: 252 passing yards
Panthers: 323 passing yards, 25 rushing yards
Colts: 126 passing yards
Ravens: 266 passing yards, 14 rushing yards (only included because of the 2 rushing TDs)
Broncos: 146 passing yards, 25 rushing yards.
So basically the Denver and Colts game are the two where the yards aren't high. And why did Dalton need to be 'protected'? The running game was working extremely well, so why would they turn to Dalton while they're up the entire game pretty much? They ran for 207 total yards. Why would you want to air it out while the run game is having THAT much success? Dalton did what was asked of him. Sorry he didn't put up 300 passing yards.
It wasn't necessarily that he didn't put up 300 passing yards, he just didn't look very good in that game.
Numbers are a nice thing to talk about, but they hardly tell the entire story. I give Andy a ton of credit for the early part of 2014, especially if you consider who he was working with at receiver in some of those games. I just can't get on board with saying he must have been good against Denver because of his passer rating alone. If you watched the game, you couldn't have been overly impressed with what Andy was doing. He completed 3 out of 9 passes that went 10 yards or more downfield, and he basically sat back dinking and dunking throughout the entire game.
I won't knock him and say that he was awful or anything, but it was hardly a "good game" for Andy and he shouldn't get a lot of the credit for that one. 73% of his yards were totaled from throwing dump offs down the middle within 9 yards of the LOS. Only 48 of his total passing yards came in the air, the rest of his yards were YAC by the receivers in that game.
