re: Anyone seen this? Geno Smith absolutely trashed by Draft Analyst

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When you look at Smith’s passes this year, more than 60 percent of his throws were for nine yards or less. That’s the distance the ball traveled in the air from the line of scrimmage – not the total distance on the play. And only 10.6 percent of his passes traveled 20 yards or more in the air.

Geno Smith is not an NFL QB

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Ok, so that "distance thrown" statistic was bugging me, cause the writer implies Geno hardly ever threw down-field compared to Barkley or Mike Glennon. Anyone who has watched a WVU game knows that is a joke. He states:

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When you look at Smith’s passes this year, more than 60 percent of his throws were for nine yards or less. That’s the distance the ball traveled in the air from the line of scrimmage – not the total distance on the play. And only 10.6 percent of his passes traveled 20 yards or more in the air. When you compare Smith to Barkley and Glennon, there’s a fairly significant difference. Barkley averaged 13 throws of 20 yards or more while Glennon threw 15.9 passes of that distance.

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I couldn't figure out why he was giving a % of throws for Geno, but hard numbers of throws per game of Barkley and Glennon. Then I realized this dipshit was mis-quoting his stats. He probably got his percentages from here:

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I won't paste the actual stats breakdown (thanks to formatting it comes out as gibberish), but basically Barkley threw 20+ yards down-field 13% of the time (not 13 throws per game) compared to Geno's 10.6%.

10-19 yards? 28.4% for Geno, 23.4% for Barkley.

9 yards or less? 61% for Geno, and a whopping 63.6% for Barkley.

El-oh-fricking-el, so much for

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name me one successful NFL QB who throws <10 yard passes 60% of the time? There really isn't anyone in the NFL to compare the guy to that is successful. On the other hand, there are a ton of guys who've played in the NFL that can make every throw, like Matt Barkley can do. Do I think Barkley is going to be successful in the NFL? No. But, history tells me he has a much better shot than Geno Smith.

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