Nonsense McD5 - his accuracy is fine. You realize that your saying it doesn't make it so, right? His accuracy LAST YEAR was almost 70%, much better than his vaunted rookie season. Accuracy has never been his issue - but hey, don't let the facts get in the way
Taking unnecessary sacks, playing recklessly, and not working the offense as designed are issues. But as Gruden himself acknowledged today, he is improving.
And Cousins?
Cousins always looks like a HOFer in games that don't count with zero pressure. Good for him. When he can win regular season games without tossing 3 picks, then I'll give him props.
Like all stats, I think that 70% number has to be viewed in context.
I don't have the stat handy at this second, but have read it and will try to locate it for you. Basically, he threw the largest percentage of short passes in the league. Passes of 5 yards or less. Screens. The routes he knew and ones that involved very little reading of defenses. I'd expect his accuracy rate to be high on those. I'd expect extremely high on those.
He was injured last year, so I don't even feel correct about judging him. But he did sail passes over the heads of receivers--something we didn't see in his first season prior to injury. He was deadly accurate that year.
Last night he tried two corner routes in the end zone on back to back plays.
I can't fault him on the second one because he was about to be killed. I was just happy that he even got the ball off instead of taking a sack.
But the closest person to the first pass may have been someone sitting in the front row of the stands. There was nothing accurate about that.
He also had two others that could have been picks. I believe both of those were to Grant. Grant caught one, and then he switched roles and played defender on the other to break up the pick.
Pinpoint accuracy of course can be found in only a few. No one should expect him to ever be a Rodgers or Manning. I believe his accuracy will improve as he continues to improve his footwork--right stance, not throwing off his back foot, planting, etc.
He's making great progress....but I believe he still has further to go.
The biggest difference that I see between the two QBs continues to be vision. He can improve on that, but it takes time.
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