A large part of the reason why his YPA went down this year is because they couldn't get the ball down field. The receivers would not get separation from the defenders. On passes from behind the LOS to 10 yards past the LOS he is completing 64.1% of his passes for 5.6 YPA. But from 11-20 (which is where passes go to receivers) he is only completing 46.9% for 8.2 YPA. If the receivers did a better job (and to be honest, it's not all on the receivers) getting open his completion percentage would be higher which would mean his overall YPA would be higher.
Back at you. We can agree to disagree on some of this. I'm with you though. I really hope they find an OC that knows how to judge his players' strengths and weaknesses. Exploiting matchups is something I really think the Jets offense failed at miserably this year. As a counter-example, the Pats do it every game. A lot of it involves their TEs, but they've been doing it for years. When they're not filming the other teams signals, that is.
Very well put! We can never know if Sanchez will take the next step, but the stats show it wouldn't be as uncommon as everyone thinks. The new OC would be great as it seems we never go to our players strengths as much as other teams.
if you looked at his numbers without watching him play you would think he had a respectable year. watching the games however you could see the flaws. an offseason focused on improving those flaws and hopefully a good amount of jet players attending his jets west spring summer camp would do alot of good. aside from that an improved offensive line would work wonders. that said it's a long 8 months between now and september.
Very good breakdown. You do not have to throw the deep balls to increase your YPA. As stated above, the key is to consistently hit the throws in the 11-20 yard range.
As a way of comparing players on different teams? Yes. It is entirely dependant on the number of passes thrown. If player A throws 500 times for 260 completions and 1560 yards, is he better than player B who throws 400 times for 232 completions and 1508 yards? No that is why they invented comp% and YPA. It normalizes the players stats to a per attempt average. So we would know that player A has a 52% completion percentage and a 6 YPA, Player B has a 58% completion percentage and a 6.5YPA/ As to YPA being about not throwing deep it just isn't true. Sanchez threw 49 passes over 20 yards he completed 13 for a percentage of 26.5% Sanchez threw 177 passes over 10 yards in the air he completed 73 for a percentage of 41.2% the reason Sanchez's YPA is low is because he is not accurate at any distance, but is particularly inaccurate downfield.
The other problem is that his completion percentage isn't increasing much in relation to other QBs, it is rising in step with everyone else in the league, so it is difficult to say that he is actually improving. His rank among NFL starting Qbs in Completion percentage 2009- 29th 2010- 29th 2011- 27th YPA 2009-18th 2010-27th 2011-26th so what improvement there is if any is marginal.
amazing post. this post is so fucking shit. if i knew i would get a response that was not only inaccurate and total bullshit, but also a totally lazy fucking response, i wouldn't have even wasted time typing out my post in the first place. im kinda pissed that i did, bro. kthxbye
Wonder why the big difference between NFL.com and ESPN? http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player/_/stat/passing/sort/yardsPerPassAttempt
There isn't I screwed up my post, I'll go fix it Sanchez should be tied for 26/27 based on NFL I must have been in the wrong tab when I made that chart.
There isn't much of a difference, (NFL includes Kyle Orton, ESPN doesn't, not sure why), cellar-door just had a typo-Sanchez is actually 26th in YPA in 2011
Sanchez: 32 TD's and 18 Interceptions...Regression? Sanchez: 32 TD's and 18 Interceptions...Deception
If we made a list of all the QB's that have ever in any season been involved in 30+ TD's I am going to bet that everybody who looked at it would agree that they were all good QB's except for Mark Sanchez. Hysteria got people burned as witches for a reason.
Yeah, but from what a good law-savvy friend of mine told me recently, the attempt to fix the hysteria that the Salem witch trials caused was directly responsible for our current system of law. Heh.
Derek Anderson and Jake Delhomme both had 30+ TD seasons when running and passing is combined. So no.
