Smitty
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Which has a bearing on total yards.His YPA are way up.
Not arguing that.Which like I said, has an extremely high correlation to winning games.
But you have in the past attempted to explain away Dak's low yardage output as irrelevant when it is certainly not.
He can have other things that look good -- such as high QB rating, high completion percentage, etc, all things that "better correlate to winning," -- but still not be winning. And the "why" there is because his low yardage output means he's not getting his team down the field through the air enough to get into scoring position enough. The problem with claiming that "low yards don't prove he's struggling" is that these "better indicators" can be masked by each other. He can have a low YPA, but a high completion percentage, or vice versa, and they make up for each other. The problem was, neither Prescott's YPA nor his completion percentages were abysmal, but his total output was. And you were ignoring that.
Those other stats may "better" correlate to winning, but that doesn't mean yards don't matter. Again, the reason they don't correlate to winning, is because too often the guy that throw for 250 yards beats the guy who throws for 260 yards. So the higher passing totals don't correlate to winning necessarily, especially because the trailing team will have to throw more to catch up. But that only rationally works when both offenses are functioning.
When you are only throwing for 150-160 yards, that's NOT functioning. And early this season, that's what Prescott was doing. Those numbers absolutely correlate to losing.
Yeah, but that essentially almost never happens.If my guy throws for 170 yards, 4 TDs and completes a high percentage of his passes in the process the yards are meaningless.
I'd bet that the vast majority of sub-200 yard passing days in today's league are losses, not wins.