How tf can you throw for 200 yards 2 picks, 0 tds, 0 rushing tds and have a QBR of 67 but nikkas passing for 300+ yards 3tds and 0 int and be in the 40's
I realize that one of the reasons you stay so ignorant is that you care way too much about picks out of context.
In that Josh Goff game I broke down for you, Goff had a bunch of drives that went like:
1st-and-10: False start
1st-and-15: Incomplete pass
2nd-and-15: Incomplete pass
3rd-and-15: Throws useless 8-yard pass
Punt
That's a horrible drive, four bad plays in a row and ending in a punt with no field position gained. Doesn't give the defense any work at all. But in the "stats" that you love so much, it goes down as 1-3 for 8 yards. You won't even notice it in the end.
Meanwhile, in Dak's first drive from the game you listed, he threw for 2 first downs and brought the Cowboys 40 yards down the field, and then threw a pick. He had two good passes and two bad passes.
That's not a bad drive, just a bad ending. Most of Dak's throws were good, and he kept Oakland's defense on the field for a while. But your ignorant butt looking at the box score is just going to see the pick and think, "Oh, that's terrible! Look, he has 2 in the interception column. That's terrible!"
When in reality that interception wasn't any worse than the constant 3-and-outs that Goff had in the other game, which you thought was "great."
1st Drive: 40 yards in 9 plays, throws 6-yard and 18-yard passes for 1st downs before thowing a pick to end the drive.
MEDIOCRE DRIVE.
2nd Drive: 41 yards in 9 plays, throws 8-yard pass for a first down, also has a 6-yard run and 5-yard pass but ends drive with incompletion and FG.
MEDIOCRE DRIVE.
3rd Drive: 65 yards in 9 plays. Dak goes 4-4 for 54 yards throwing 3 first downs. On 1st-and-Goal from the 8, Dak scrambles 4 yards to the 4, then draws a pass interference penalty that puts the ball on the 1, and the RB punches it in for the TD.
FANTASTIC TD DRIVE.
Note that that's one of the best drives we've seen, Dak made one big play after another.
But nothing that happened after 1st-and-goal shows up in your dumb stats. The 4 yard run to get the ball to the 4 is big, but doesn't show in passing stats. Drawing the pass interference to put the ball on the 1 basically created the TD, but he gets no credit for that at all in QB rating.
4th Drive: 16 yards in 10 plays. Weird drive because Dak gets one 1st-down by drawing a defensive holding penalty and then throws a 13-yard pass on 3rd-and-12 for another big first down, but the drive dies on a run for no gain, pass for 1 yard, and incomplete pass. So he had two big plays but it doesn't go anywhere in the end.
BAD DRIVE.
5th Drive: Pick thrown.
TERRIBLE DRIVE.
6th Drive: 75 yards in 13 plays to put the Cowboys up 17-10. The stats say that Dak went just 2-4 for 26 yards on this drive. The stats don't tell you that both passes were big plays that set up 1st downs. The stats don't tell you that two Dak throws drew a Defensive Holding for a big 1st down and a Defensive PI for a big 1st down. The stats don't tell you that Dak ran 8 yards to get 1st-and-Goal then ran 5 yards for the TD. Dak made SIX great plays on this drive to get the TD to put Dallas ahead. In your dumb stats, he gets credit for almost nothing.
FANTASTIC TD DRIVE.
7th Drive: 7 yards in 4 plays. Dak runs for 11 yards for a 1st down and throws a 6-yard pass and a 15-yard pass, but a 4-yard loss on a Dez run and a 10-yard offensive holding penalty kill the drive. Dak had 3 good plays but other players' mistakes keep it from going anywhere.
MEDIOCRE DRIVE.
8th Drive: 69 yards in 11 plays. Dak passes 3-4 for 62 yards, passing for 3 first downs, and also runs for a 1st down on 4th-and-1. Unfortunately, after he sets up 1st-and-Goal on the five Dallas fails to score on three straight running plays and has to settle for a FG, but that puts them up 20-17 and they win the game.
GREAT DRIVE.
3 great drives
3 mediocre drives
2 bad drives
Dak made great plays all game long, only had a couple bad drives the whole game. The stat line didn't look spectacular because Dak doesn't get credit for the TD he ran in and the TD he set up with a run, he doesn't get credit for all the defensive penalties he drew all game, and he can't help that his teammates killed drives a couple times with bad penalties or runs that went nowhere. But when it came down to the end, he made a bunch of huge plays to set up the go-ahead TD and then the game-winning FG.
You just see the picks in the stat line, you don't see that those only ended 2 drives but his other drives were great. You see the lack of TDs in the stat line, you don't see that he set up all of Dallas's TDs with his legs. You see the lack of yards in the stat line, you don't see that almost all of his passes went for 1st downs and he repeatedly drew defensive penalties for 1st downs as well.
It wasn't an incredible game. But it was a good game. He consistently made good plays all game long. It's not a 90 rating game or even a 75 rating game, but he sure deserves that 67 rating. It ain't like that awful Josh Goff game where he single-handedly submarined 7 straight drives before finally redeeming himself solely because his defense kept getting him the ball back.
But yeah, keep caping for dumb stats with no context and getting angry when people work to make something better.
i swear i saw it with my 2 eyes. but it's not there anymore
