re: 13 pass attempts of 20+ yards against Auburn is off the charts

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I'll concede that there may be a qb out west or in Hawaii or somewhere with numbers like this. But if so, they are also WAY off the charts.

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, just giving you shite.

The basic measurement of a passing game is contained in yards per attempt. If you're dinking and dunking the ball down the field, your YPA will suffer. If you're going deep at a poor completion rate, your YPA will suffer.

Hopefully the efficiency goes up over the rest of the season for Burrow.

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What's the national completion percentage for this stat? I don't know.

QB completion percentages are padded with screens and short throws, so I would imagine 20-plus yard throws are in the 30 percent range.

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In the 30's to low 40's is about right over the long run. Drops more over 30 yards

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I agree, but it's only 15 yards/spot foul in college. Drawing PI on a deep pass or a crossing route is equally beneficial. There is no added benefit of drawing PI 35 yards down the field.

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The major advantage to the long ball is that there is far less DB traffic. It is almost always one on one. The DB usually has eyes on the WR (so can't see the ball). And a tipped ball has less chance of flopping into the hands of a back-up defender. MUCH safer than a slant.

I think I heard O say this week that their goal is 2 “deep balls” per quarter

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But right now, LSU's receivers are getting very little separation.

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This, but also Burrow is not making good choices with the deep ball. (as far as who's open)

More film and game experience should fix that though.

Do you have info how many of these were on 3rd or 4th down (when we were “forced” to throw for 20+) versus when we choose to throw deep?

like i've been saying

against auburn:
17 yd avg
8 completions over 10 yds - 53%

if i were an auburn fan this week, i would not be happy with steele. they let a first year starter on a new team with a new coordinator and lots of new faces have those stats and have 2 late scoring drives to win the game at their own house.

bama fans and national personalities can keep harping on the overall completion percentage but, he's effectively getting the ball downfield to multiple receivers.

overall (taking out 2nd half against miami and slu):
14 yd avg
19 completions over 10 yds - 53%

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if i were an auburn fan this week, i would not be happy with steele. they let a first year starter on a new team with a new coordinator and lots of new faces have those stats and have 2 late scoring drives to win the game at their own house.

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where steele messed up is even on those 3rd and longs joe had time to throw. I would have blitzed him and made him prove he could make a good quick decision to throw a slant or a quick seam in man coverage while under duress. see if burrow can torch us or see if he would audible to a screen if he read blitz. on that 3rd down QB keeper we shoulda have audibled to a screen. we would have torched that blitz. pre snap was showing blitz and they did blitz.

get ready because kirby and saban will blitz the shite out of us until we can prove we can burn them for big plays.

Here are NFL deep ball stats from the Deep Ball Project from last year. It shows actual completion percentage and has an adjusted ACC/ATT which is the accuracy per attempt percentage. Essentially accurate throws that could have been caught, but were dropped or PI call, etc...

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ACC/ATT is Accuracy percentage takes a look at whether the pass was or wasn't accurate, regardless whether it was caught.There is a wider variety of scenarios that play into accurate passes aside from the typical uncontested drop. These include:

- Typical drops.
- Plays where the receiver fails to win at the catch point despite being given a reasonable angle to catch the ball.
- Plays where the receiver fails to keep two feet in bounds or in the end zone.
- Plays where the receiver stops or runs the wrong route. (These can be subjective or hard to dissect from miscommunications at first glance.)
- Plays where the receiver catches the ball but can't control the ball as he hits the ground.
- Plays where the receiver catches the ball but has it knocked out of his hands.

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Joe stats for the game would have been...
3/13 = 23% completion rate

After watching all the throws... youtube I calculate Joe's ACC/ATT to be
8/13 = 61.5% ACC/ATT

You have 3 completions + 2 PI calls that I consider accurate + 3 passes to Giles that could have been caught.

Football Outsiders

Got to give Coach E credit for guts all day and especially on that last drive. He was going for it with deep passes. Got 2 two penalties when receivers broke open. That last one set up the FG. Got seam, fades, come backs and over the middle routes into the passing game.