mav1234

This damn play is shown as one of the worst sports plays of the year on a Canadian sports channel on repeat. The reminder on a weekly basis keeps me from being too happy with our playoff appearance.

I feel some of you need a reminder - or maybe to learn for the first time - what a BTT is. Because it isn't a deep ball. It's a subjective assessment of a throw: "PFF grades on a plus/minus scale, in which players are rewarded for positive plays above expectation and penalized for negative plays in increments of 0.5. Throws graded at the higher end of PFF's scale (+1.0, +1.5, and +2.0) are categorized as big-time throws. The lower range of the scale (-1.0, -1.5, and -2.0) are classified as turnover-worthy plays." So Bryce had the highest number of graded throws at +1 to +2 of any NFL QB. Really? Keep in mind that Bryce ultimately ended up with one of the bottom PFF grades for a starting QB. This almost has to mean he also had the most turnover worthy plays or he'd be graded much higher overall. I actually think Bryce is better than his actual PFF grade (26th in the league). But the highest number of well-rated throws in the league? C'mon.

The most ridiculous part of this, other than using a made up, extremely subjective stat that isn't even associated with deep balls to define a deep ball passer, is that his actual PFF score was 26/43. Since BTTs are just when a pass gets a really high score on an individual play, just imagine how fuging awful most of his plays must be that he's got some huge number of BTTs but is also so bad all the rest of the time. He made some great plays and IMO had by far his best game in the playoffs (circumstances being what they were), and I'm hoping for that kind of play more consistently next year. But it's so wild for PFF to put out such crazy stuff when the player is objectively less than mediocre by their own rankings.

Big Time Throws are not even fuging deep balls by their own definition ffs.

I don't mind small moves to secure a player generally but overall I agree with you. Just not worth the cost usually unless youre hitting on a HoF and the draft is basically too much of a crap shoot for thet.

Running out of bounds while making a catch doesn't show up as a drop but it basically is one. XL just doesn't seem to have it. Maybe he doesn't have chemistry with our meh QB but TMac and Coker have made it work.

Ah yes, the NFL is fixing games so masterfully that were only left with disgruntled fan bases like ours complaining about whether or not a catch was a catch, but they reveal their grand plan in some stupid image from September lol

Hard to say. He definitely learned from his stops in SF and Minn.

He's headed to the ground after taking a step (a football move lol). They definitely haven't been officiating that consistently but I've seen similar plays be completions.

We didn't have that but it's possible we could have. That said I think part of what allowed this was being cast off repeatedly.

Really happy for Darnold... He hasn't had the most straightforward path to success but he showed today he could hang with the best QBs and overcome bad performances in the past. I hope they come out and destroy New England.

Kupp didn't need to survive the ground, that only applies if a player hasn't completed the catch yet, he had. But yes it was lol

Same. He took a step and reached out with the ball in his control.... It wasn't like he was trying to get it under control

Jesus this would be amazing for us, lol. If he turns out to be phenomenal it has little outcome on us, and if not, oh well.

Baltimore and Buffalo may or may not get a better HC but both of those QBs are likely to drag their franchises to the playoffs every year, lol