Post by Reignman on Aug 1, 2022 21:18:02 GMT -6
Alright, so I already provided the full context of this tweet here ... but I decided to go a little further with it. Maybe Kirk was just a one hit wonder? So I looked at all 7 years of him as a starter (2015-2021) to see if he's been consistent.
And since the tweet focused on "critical situations", I decided to add 4 additional categories to the list that I feel are important. No, serious ones this time xD. Deep passing (air yards of 20+), 2 minute drill (final 2 minutes of both halves), trailing at any point in the game, and finally when trailing in the 4th quarter with 5 minutes to go. I probably should have expanded that last category to only include "down by one possession" games, to filter out garbage time, but I didn't think of it at the time.
So here are the 7 year totals, again ranked by the average rank of the 10 categories. I threw in win/loss records since that usually comes up when talking about Kirk too. He's well ahead of Stafford in passer rating, although most of that was with Detroit.
And now by EPA, which might be a better metric, although winning seems to correlate better with passer rating than EPA, so go figure lol. There are a number of .500 type QB's around and above Cousins on this one, so maybe he has a chance? This is average EPA per pass attempt in each category BTW.
Oh and I think we found something Blaine Gabbert is good at. And what were the Cardinals thinking paying Kyler all that money?
And finally, Cousins year by year in all the categories. Ironic that one of his worst years with the Vikings (2019) was his only playoff appearance.
The numbers are impressive, but they always have been with Kirk. I still question if he's built mentally to win 3-4 consecutive games in Jan/Feb against the best teams in the NFL. I'd love to break all this down by playoff games, but the sample size is just too small for most QB's, or at the very least lopsided.
And since the tweet focused on "critical situations", I decided to add 4 additional categories to the list that I feel are important. No, serious ones this time xD. Deep passing (air yards of 20+), 2 minute drill (final 2 minutes of both halves), trailing at any point in the game, and finally when trailing in the 4th quarter with 5 minutes to go. I probably should have expanded that last category to only include "down by one possession" games, to filter out garbage time, but I didn't think of it at the time.
So here are the 7 year totals, again ranked by the average rank of the 10 categories. I threw in win/loss records since that usually comes up when talking about Kirk too. He's well ahead of Stafford in passer rating, although most of that was with Detroit.
And now by EPA, which might be a better metric, although winning seems to correlate better with passer rating than EPA, so go figure lol. There are a number of .500 type QB's around and above Cousins on this one, so maybe he has a chance? This is average EPA per pass attempt in each category BTW.
Oh and I think we found something Blaine Gabbert is good at. And what were the Cardinals thinking paying Kyler all that money?
And finally, Cousins year by year in all the categories. Ironic that one of his worst years with the Vikings (2019) was his only playoff appearance.
The numbers are impressive, but they always have been with Kirk. I still question if he's built mentally to win 3-4 consecutive games in Jan/Feb against the best teams in the NFL. I'd love to break all this down by playoff games, but the sample size is just too small for most QB's, or at the very least lopsided.