Stampede Blue
Thanks to the nflFastR project, Pro Football Focus and NFL NextGen Stats for the timely sources of data.
For those of you new to this, I will publish key QB stats each week judging how well the Colts’ QB performed. Yes, O-Line, receivers, and play-calling impact these numbers but they are primarily QB measures. I will probably modify the charts throughout the season. Commentary will be brief but feel free to let me know in the comments that stats aren’t everything. (click charts for larger view)
Take away the interception, and this looked like a typical Daniel Jones game (Colts-Jones, not Giants-Jones). He had a lot of positive plays (7th-highest success rate), and his negative plays caused limited damage. Of course, the interception counts—and it was a massively negative play, which greatly reduced his overall EPA (15th EPA/play).
You can see in the graph below that his EPA dropped significantly this week, whereas the other three measures—while lower—did not decline nearly as much. He converted a lot of first downs, but did it off of basically average yardage.
Again, Jones completed a lot of passes that resulted in plenty of first downs and touchdowns. Many of those came on throws under 10 yards, but as long as they move the chains, I’m fine with that.
Both attmept and completion depth is way down this week.
On the season, though, he still uses depth rather than YAC to generate most of his passing yards.
Warren owned the day both in targets and yards. Pierce had a better day than Pittman.
Just like in the weekly totals, Warren leads the team in both targets and yards for the season. The Colts already have four receivers over 200 yards through just six games. Nice.
Only one player fell below the league-average target efficiency, and it was JT. That’s pretty common among running backs, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Ignore Mitchell and imagine a trend line through all the other Colts players— that line would scream highly efficient balance receiving.
Completion rate and accuracy ticked up this week as Jones posts a season long 12th best CPOE.
For the first time as a Colt, Jones took significantly longer than average to get rid of the ball. Combined with the shorter passes, that suggests he had trouble finding open receivers on his intitial read(s).
The left side of the field was mostly unkind to Jones, while the right side paid dividends — aside from the interception.
Still no red for the season.
mouseover definitions: epa/d, median EPA gain in similar game situation (down, distance, etc.)”>arsr, 3 yards to gain in game-neutral situations”>edp, opd, pr%, tip, ttt, adot, ay/c, yac, yacoe, yd/c, ac%, cpoe, aypa, scr%, ta%, sck%, aa%, aay, ny/d, ny/p, 1st%, td%, to%, 0″>qbsrepa/p, adj/p- The run game once again performed at a high level,...
