Stats: Where have we improved? Passing offense edition

I think you have to have some just based on the Lions past. I belive we are on track though. I am sure someone will post below though how stats don’t matter. Theres no improvment in wins there for we are not improved.

I think that at full health, our passing offence is near the top 5 in the league. Stafford, if healthy, has shown that he can pick apart defences and score TDs. CJ is an awesome receiver, and Nate ain’t bad either. Grew is a great pressure valve and then you have Best who may be our homerun hitter. We have a clearly explosive offence, we just need to be healthy.

I think that at full health, our passing offence is near the top 5 in the league. Stafford, if healthy, has shown that he can pick apart defences and score TDs. CJ is an awesome receiver, and Nate ain’t bad either. Grew is a great pressure valve and then you have Best who may be our homerun hitter. We have a clearly explosive offence, we just need to be healthy.

Although maybe they don’t get enough credit for one reason or another, our O-Line has done an excellent job keeping defenders away from our quarterbacks. I know, Stafford got injured game 1 on a Julius Peppers sack, but when you look at a much broader picture, and consider how many times our quarterbacks have been hit or sacked per pass play, our pass protection is the sixth best in the league right now.

Greater the YPC the higher the sack percentage? Isn’t there some correlation? What about hits after the catch? Stafford and Hill take a beating which coincides with the short YPC. Meaning especially Hill is a dumpoff master, then takes the hit.

IMO the stats showing how fantastic the O-line is at pass protection is skewed.

I love it.

on the correlation between passer rating and winning percentage? Does a higher passer rating lead to an increased win percentage?

I mean, it seems intuitive that the two are related, but it’d be nice to finish the thought process here with that data, too.

Interesting stuff.

With his ability to make the long throw, and also fire the ball into tight spots it places much more pressure on a secondary. Having said that, he has not thrown many long passes in his limited play this year. I am looking forward to the Lions utilizing that part of his talent………next year?

Concern 1: Can Stafford stay healthy? I don’t want any answers to this, because there are not any, only time will tell.

Concern 2: How do we improve from here as Shaun Hill and Drew Stanton being in the game still leaves us below average at that position?

By the way I have a bit of a problem with those stats, they clearly inflate the value of Shaun Hill as a starter. Sure he is a good back up, but as a starter he has never been rated above 20th all season, he is a bottom third of the league QB as a starter, and Stanton fares even worse. So while your numbers suggest he is slightly less than average he in fact is worse than that when compared to his peers.

Also to answer my own question above. I think the most effective thing we can do moving forward, to help Matt Stafford, Shaun Hill, Drew Stanton, or whoever it be, is focus on building a real football team instead of following this franchise quarterback dream. Even Peyton Manning is struggling this year and as I have said before, for all of his accolades he has exactly one super bowl ring. Tom Brady while more successful, seems to have a better supporting cast (read coach) to help him.

No my friends I always have, and still do believe that a championship franchise is built on a running game and a defense. We will not see consistent winning here in until that happens. In fact the last time we had a successful team it featured a lot of good names on defense along with Barry Sanders. The problem with the franchise QB model, IMO is that all of your eggs are in one basket, it is feast or famine based on that one guy mainly. Where a running game and defense is build on units and if one guy has a bad game, or is injured for the season, the team is much more able to adjust and compensate for that.

Bad combination: The Chicago Bears are tied for the NFL lead with 26 takeaways this season. In the Detroit Lions’ Drew Stanton, they’ll face a quarterback who has thrown seven interceptions in 104 career attempts while also losing two fumbles. That’s nine turnovers in one start and eight relief appearances. If the Lions are going to take any pressure off Stanton, it will have to be with a running game likely to feature No. 3 tailback Maurice Morris. I don’t like Stanton’s chances of navigating the Bears’ defense mistake-free, which is what he’ll have to do in order to win this game. The Bears have 16 interceptions this season, 13 of which have come against their standard four-man pass rush. That means they’ll be sitting back in coverage Sunday, simply waiting for Stanton to make a bad decision or an inaccurate throw.

History in the making? The Lions haven’t won an NFC North game since defeating the Bears in Week 8 of the 2007 season. Since then, they’re 0-18 against the Bears, Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings. Overall since that 16-7 victory against the Bears, the Lions have lost 46 of 51 games. Only one of their five victories over that stretch has been against a team with a winning record at the time, their Week 8 victory against the Washington Redskins this season. For those hoping or believing the Lions will win Sunday, I present these facts without comment to provide context for how historic such a victory would be. Nfc North last word

We’ve improved at EVERY aspect of the game BUT continue to be stupid when it comes to discipline. Once the 4th quarter begins the team goes into self destruct mode. Rest assured that my friend will get things turned around once his ‘wing’ is healthy. I have suggested sitting the remainder of the season but he’s not having it. Even if it’s the last game, he’s going to go. I wish the team would step in and ‘shut him down’ but they won’t. Matthew is a competitor and won’t sit just to sit!