Andy Dalton 2014 HIghlights

[Shake n Blake]

(05-28-2015, 02:34 PM)djs7685 Wrote: I said that it looked like a Bernard/Green/Sanu highlight reel as an exaggeration to get to my point. I just meant that compared to prior years, it really seemed like his highlight reel had a lot more dump offs (some were excellent, heads up dump offs though), short passes, and great catches and YAC by the receivers in it. I know that you'll find the same in other highlight reels from other QBs around the league, they're all not going to be filled with bombs to the outside.

Andy had some great throws through the video, I'm not trying to take away from that, I just wanted to make a comment to get to my main idea and exaggerated it a bit. I'd have to go back and watch the 2011, 2012, and 2013 highlight reels, but something hit me when watching this one and for some reason it felt like he wasn't slinging the ball around as much as the receivers made good plays in 2014. I could be completely wrong and could be overthinking it since it's fresh in my memory where the other years aren't, but that's what popped into my head about halfway through.

Gotcha. I liked the "% of yards through the air" stat, but I think there may be a pretty simple explanation for why his % was down last year. Multiple receivers were injured last year, and Dalton threw to RB's more than ever because of it. Here's Dalton's completions to RB's by year. The 2nd number is his overall completions. The % of completions to RB's is in parenthesis:

2011: 53 - 300 (17.7%)
2012: 43 - 329 (13.1%) - He did get a lot of YAC from Hawkins here
2013: 60 - 363 (16.5%)
2014: 80 - 309 (25.9%)

I think the "yards through the air %" will increase some this year as the % of throws to RB's will surely decrease with MLJ and Eifert back, and AJ fully healthy.