05-28-2015, 09:48 AM
(05-28-2015, 09:32 AM)BritishBengal Wrote: That is interesting. Kind of backs up the feeling a lot have that he was bottled a lot more last season. Asked to not make mistakes rather than make plays. I hope this will change this year. I'd much rather games were lost attacking than being overly cautious. This will be the first year Dalton has a great running game. Hopefully more deep shots will be taken.
I don't know if I'd call it bottled, but the receivers definitely did a bit more of the work than they usually do. I do agree that it seemed like he was a bit more cautious out there, but I can't say for sure whether that was Andy himself or the coaching staff's fault. He still threw 17 INTs and plenty of terribly off-course passes, so I do believe it would be better for him to just sling the ball around more. At least there would be a high reward with the risk in that case.
(05-28-2015, 09:41 AM)Interceptor Wrote: I would just like to see them attempt a play action pass.
Believe it or not, 21.1% of Andy's passes were off play action last year. The league average is somewhere in the low 20's, so he's right there with the Mannings, Roethlisberger, Stafford, Fitz, Luck, Kaepernick, Carr, and the list goes on.
Other than the 3 guys throwing 30% of their passes off of PA and the 3 guys using PA less than 15% of the time (Philip Rivers 7.8% WTF?!), most NFL QBs are in between those ranges and that's definitely a healthy spot to be in.
