Stat question about Matt Moore

[hepcat]

What percentage of Moore's completed passes were off of play-action? My guess is around 75%.

We ran the ball ineffectively a lot, but it showed a commitment to it and the D was caught off guard. Since Fox has been coach, the Panthers do best with the pass off of play-action.

[Ricky Spanish]

they really do, and moore can actually sell a run. clausen just turns back and doesn't do anything.

[panthers55]

I doubt ti was close to that. We ran out of the shotgun quite a bit yesterday and he dropped back without faking other times. Still others were quick hitters but I could be wrong and haven't done any research.

[Davidson Deac II]

I don't remember what the percentages were, but I do remember the announcers being critical of him for doing a poor job selling the run on a couple of plays.

[Jpjr]

First of all, I commend the coaches for running lots of play action. They stuck to the gameplan I laid out weeks ago and it worked

Second, the running back sells play action more than the quarterback as far as the defense goes. This is a stupid thing made by announcers because it's so easy to zero in on what the quarterback is doing. it's sort of like the infamous "looking off" of recievers. Fans are trained that good quarterbacks do this every play and it is completely false. Some do it occasionally for vertical spread passing plays but certainly not for short yardage. If you watch Peyton Manning, aka the best in the biz, he doesn't "look off" recievers very often. He just scans the field incredibly quickly and switches from receiver to receiver faster than anyone else in the game until he finds someone open.

[Phil Dees]

I don't remember what the percentages were, but I do remember the announcers being critical of him for doing a poor job selling the run on a couple of plays.

Yes they did. I watched the replay and that's what was said.

[mav1234]

he didn't sell the playaction well at all. our QBs never do.

He may have made some plays out of it, but just because we're in a running set and the back runs out of the backfield doesn't make it playaction. More often than not, Moore would drop back and fire a great pass into decent coverage. He made plays, and his receivers made plays. There wasn't a whole lot of fooling people with playaction - though it probably did happen on a few plays.

The offense just made things happen in our passing game yesterday - I honestly think the 3 WR sets were more advantageous to that than play action, but I may be wrong.