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JohnnyBaseball1
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From the Bleacher Report column:
"Despite on-field success and the fact Smith was on track to start 2015 as the Jets' starter, he's being overlooked as the potential quarterback of the future in New York. In the last five games he's played in, Smith completed 65 percent of his attempts for 1,266 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions.
Extrapolating that five-game stretch, a 16-game season would look like 314 completions over 483 attempts for 4,051 passing yards, 26 passing touchdowns and 10 interceptions. For the 2015 regular season, only three quarterbacks—Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers and Andy Dalton, whose combined contracts are worth $293.6 million—had seasons that featured 25 or more passing touchdowns, a completion percentage of 65 percent or higher and 10 interceptions or fewer."
Does anyone really think this is a good analysis? In his last five games, played over two seasons, which included that one Week 17 Game against Miami, he did this, so we can extrapolate that over a full season, he's basically as good as Aaron Rodgers? Seriously? The Week 17 Game can reasonably considered an outlier, and for the sake of argument, let's say it was one, and he had instead, a more typical game for him. The whole "extrapolation" would be totally different. And not mentioning that this five game stretch included ONE game that was wildly different than the others is less than intellectually honest. Now, the column demonstrates that Smith has made some good plays, but again, if he had no skills whatsoever, he wouldn't be in the NFL. That isn't the issue. I hope they're right, and I hope he does develop, but this is not a good argument.
"Despite on-field success and the fact Smith was on track to start 2015 as the Jets' starter, he's being overlooked as the potential quarterback of the future in New York. In the last five games he's played in, Smith completed 65 percent of his attempts for 1,266 yards, eight touchdowns and three interceptions.
Extrapolating that five-game stretch, a 16-game season would look like 314 completions over 483 attempts for 4,051 passing yards, 26 passing touchdowns and 10 interceptions. For the 2015 regular season, only three quarterbacks—Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers and Andy Dalton, whose combined contracts are worth $293.6 million—had seasons that featured 25 or more passing touchdowns, a completion percentage of 65 percent or higher and 10 interceptions or fewer."
Does anyone really think this is a good analysis? In his last five games, played over two seasons, which included that one Week 17 Game against Miami, he did this, so we can extrapolate that over a full season, he's basically as good as Aaron Rodgers? Seriously? The Week 17 Game can reasonably considered an outlier, and for the sake of argument, let's say it was one, and he had instead, a more typical game for him. The whole "extrapolation" would be totally different. And not mentioning that this five game stretch included ONE game that was wildly different than the others is less than intellectually honest. Now, the column demonstrates that Smith has made some good plays, but again, if he had no skills whatsoever, he wouldn't be in the NFL. That isn't the issue. I hope they're right, and I hope he does develop, but this is not a good argument.
