Josh Allen 2019 Regular Season at 58.8% Completion Percentage

[Foxx]

all i know is.... the discussion today is no different than that of the past two decades plus. change out the culprit and it is the same. i long for the day when the conversation changes and the argument whether he is good or not, becomes one of just how good he is.

 

oh wait... that's the same argument isn't it?

[JaCrispy]

29 minutes ago, YattaOkasan said:

I'm struggling with the point I think @Mango is trying to make.  I think we know Allen has a lot of responsibility at the line, and I agree with you we can't really quantify how much of the blame is on Allen because we don't have the information.  But I think the things such as setting protections and getting to the right play are where hes gonna need to take the biggest jump.

 

Over the season as information about the McVay communicating with Goff at the LoS and reflecting on Brady/Manning I started thinking you need your true OC to be taking the snaps.  I totally think Allen has improved a lot in the mechanics of being a QB and also still has a long way to go.  However, the real question I have now will be how does HE game plan week to week?  How does he read the defense and audible?  We know the Bills gave him the control, but is he exerting that control and correctly. 

 

Overall, I'm hopeful because of things like his wonderlic score and his lack of football coaching prior to reaching the NFL.  I have actually been pretty impressed with how cerebral he is; so I will be very interested to see his growth in the mental aspect of the game in the next season.

Agreed...not long ago I called for Allen to start calling his own plays next season for that very reason...I also feel it would help to speed up his learning curve...

[YattaOkasan]

5 minutes ago, JaCrispy said:

Agreed...not long ago I called for Allen to start calling his own plays next season for that very reason...I also feel it would help to speed up his learning curve...

I think he had a lot of power to change plays, but I just dont know how often he did.  Then I also don't know how successful he was when he did it.  But agree I hope its speeding the curve up and will ultimately make a better end product.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

25 minutes ago, YattaOkasan said:

I'm struggling with the point I think @Mango is trying to make.  I think we know Allen has a lot of responsibility at the line, and I agree with you we can't really quantify how much of the blame is on Allen because we don't have the information.  But I think the things such as setting protections and getting to the right play are where hes gonna need to take the biggest jump.

 

Over the season as information about the McVay communicating with Goff at the LoS and reflecting on Brady/Manning I started thinking you need your true OC to be taking the snaps.  I totally think Allen has improved a lot in the mechanics of being a QB and also still has a long way to go.  However, the real question I have now will be how does HE game plan week to week?  How does he read the defense and audible?  We know the Bills gave him the control, but is he exerting that control and correctly. 

 

Overall, I'm hopeful because of things like his wonderlic score and his lack of football coaching prior to reaching the NFL.  I have actually been pretty impressed with how cerebral he is; so I will be very interested to see his growth in the mental aspect of the game in the next season.

 

Well, first of all, it's not clear how much control the Bills have really given Josh, if you listen carefully to what Daboll says.  For example, when asked after the Ravens game about Josh being responsible for setting the protections, he said "Sometimes he is.....Sometimes we just 'gap it up'"    Second,  when one assesses some of the spectacularly failed plays, sometimes the blocker is just getting his butt whipped.  I think if there's a blocker right there and he's left feeling the breeze of someone charging by him, that's not an Allen problem.

 

Likewise, I'm not sure about the "right play".   Again, Daboll has been cagy about what he says - has said things like "he has the ability to get us into most of the things he needs" or words to that effect  (this was after the Browns game).  There's still an offensive framework.

 

OK, I should put out there - I don't disagree with you that Allen needs to take a jump in terms of identifying the defense, setting protections, and making the right reads.  I'm just not at all sure what the boundries being placed on him by our coaching staff are: how much control Allen has and how much freedom of choice he has.  I'm sure he has presnap reads see this, this, this, check to a run....but then I'm sure he has limited, specific run plays he's supposed to check to.  That's not a knock on Allen, I think that's true of all but a small subset of QBs in the league.

 

 

[YattaOkasan]

6 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Well, first of all, it's not clear how much control the Bills have really given Josh, if you listen carefully to what Daboll says.  

Fair.  I really dont know but its what im most interested at this point.  I thought I had seen some posts that he was getting a lot of pre snap responsibilities but maybe I misread.  I'm really hopeful thats where he takes a leap cause it feels like thats where Brees, Brady, Manning separated from the rest of the league.

[BringBackOrton]

4 hours ago, thebandit27 said:

I think this characterization is a bit off. I think there’s a major difference between pointing out that the guy didn’t get much help around him this year to add context vs shifting blame for areas that he needs to improve.

 

For example, there’s no question that Allen needs to improve his deep throws. You can certainly argue that his timing with his targets is off, and that a few were dropped or mishandled by WRs, but that in no way absolves him from needing to get better.

 

Same with regard to accuracy. It’s more than fair to be critical of those that claim he’s the most inaccurate QB in the game by pointing out that he’s 21st in on-target throw percentage. That is in no way/shape/form a claim that he doesn’t need to continue to improve his accuracy.

 

A good number of people seem to be unable to get away from extremes when it comes to this kid. My observation has been that the detractors are more aggressive in the application of Allen extremism, and I’m not too sure why.

Where did Allen “not get much help?”

 

Let’s do a deep dive on his receiver’s stats. His top two targets ranked 47th and 78th in drop rates this season. John Brown’s yards per target was higher than Kelce, Sanders, Julio, Kupp, Landry, Woods, Cooks, Allen, Tate, Adams, Hopkins, Odell.

 

Oh no! Some one is bringing up stats that don’t make Allen look like he’s throwing to Wyoming level receivers!

[Mango]

4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I understood your point, I'm saying that I think assigning 50% of that to the QB is totally arbitrary and capricious.  It totally is a quantifiable question how much of the blame goes to the QB on each play, but to quantify that requires information none of us have, but the team does.

 

You can stand by your idea all you like, but it's 1) way too simplistic and 2) probably wrong.

 

The point about your characterization of EP offensive system is that it's fairly meaningless whether or not you can run a ton of plays from a single formation, or the same play from a number of formations, with regard to the ability to beat Blitz0.  What matters is can you effectively execute THE CORRECT PLAY CHOICES TO BEAT BLITZ ZERO?  Can you run screen plays successfully?  Do you have more than one guy who can get open quickly on hot reads and are the plays designed to get them open fast?  Do you have guys on the OL, TE and RB who can block and hold their blocks effectively while the deep route develops?  Can your QB hit that deep post?  (Allen is responsible for that last, and this past season the answer was "no" more often than not)

 

If you don't, you're like the Devil's Dictionary definition of Consultant: "Guy who knows 500 ways to Make Love, and doesn't have a Girlfriend"

 

3 hours ago, YattaOkasan said:

I'm struggling with the point I think @Mango is trying to make.  I think we know Allen has a lot of responsibility at the line, and I agree with you we can't really quantify how much of the blame is on Allen because we don't have the information.  But I think the things such as setting protections and getting to the right play are where hes gonna need to take the biggest jump.

 

Over the season as information about the McVay communicating with Goff at the LoS and reflecting on Brady/Manning I started thinking you need your true OC to be taking the snaps.  I totally think Allen has improved a lot in the mechanics of being a QB and also still has a long way to go.  However, the real question I have now will be how does HE game plan week to week?  How does he read the defense and audible?  We know the Bills gave him the control, but is he exerting that control and correctly. 

 

Overall, I'm hopeful because of things like his wonderlic score and his lack of football coaching prior to reaching the NFL.  I have actually been pretty impressed with how cerebral he is; so I will be very interested to see his growth in the mental aspect of the game in the next season.

 

2 hours ago, JaCrispy said:

Agreed...not long ago I called for Allen to start calling his own plays next season for that very reason...I also feel it would help to speed up his learning curve...

 

2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Well, first of all, it's not clear how much control the Bills have really given Josh, if you listen carefully to what Daboll says.  For example, when asked after the Ravens game about Josh being responsible for setting the protections, he said "Sometimes he is.....Sometimes we just 'gap it up'"    Second,  when one assesses some of the spectacularly failed plays, sometimes the blocker is just getting his butt whipped.  I think if there's a blocker right there and he's left feeling the breeze of someone charging by him, that's not an Allen problem.

 

Likewise, I'm not sure about the "right play".   Again, Daboll has been cagy about what he says - has said things like "he has the ability to get us into most of the things he needs" or words to that effect  (this was after the Browns game).  There's still an offensive framework.

 

OK, I should put out there - I don't disagree with you that Allen needs to take a jump in terms of identifying the defense, setting protections, and making the right reads.  I'm just not at all sure what the boundries being placed on him by our coaching staff are: how much control Allen has and how much freedom of choice he has.  I'm sure he has presnap reads see this, this, this, check to a run....but then I'm sure he has limited, specific run plays he's supposed to check to.  That's not a knock on Allen, I think that's true of all but a small subset of QBs in the league.

 

 

 

 

I was originally talking about Allen's clunkers, where he failed to connect on at least 50% of his passes. I was asserting that when that happens, more often than not, most of the blame falls on the QB. Yes there is also blame on things like the OL, Defense, WR, etc. but largely, having a high frequency of games sub 50% is an issue with the passer himself. 

 

For reference, I quickly grabbed sub 50% completion games for QB's in their first 2 years/32 games, since 2000  Here are the bottom 20. It is not a great list

 

Granted there are some outliers, but it is not a great list of QB's. Most (not all) of which we would say were not good passers. The search function on PFR is awesome. 

 

Name	Number of Games Under 50% passing
Tim Tebow	10
Eli Manning	9
Joey Harrington	8
Michael Vick	8
Vince Young	8
Josh Allen	7
David Carr	7
Joe Flacco	7
Blaine Gabbert	7
Andrew Luck	7
Mike McMahon	7
Kyle Orton	7
Patrick Ramsey	7
JaMarcus Russell	7
Mark Sanchez	7
DeShone Kizer	6
Colt McCoy	6
Christian Ponder	6
Geno Smith	6
Brandon Weeden	6

 

 

[John from Riverside]

5 hours ago, thebandit27 said:

I think that the team has done just above the minimum when it comes to supporting Allen. They’ve given him nothing beyond serviceable when it comes to OL and WR. Contrast it to the approach that teams like Philly, LAR, Chicago, and Cleveland have taken to surround their young QBs with not only quality, but also quantity of explosive playmakers, and we’re waaaaay behind.

 

And yes, the Lamar criticism is outrageous. I’ve said many times that I like all 5 of the 2018 QBs, and I still think they can all be good.

I would like to see them do at the WR spot when they did with the OL/DL spots

 

They drafted players high at those spots (and they were the best available at the time which helps) AND they were aggressive in free agency in getting quality guys.

 

Now look at us....we actually have quality and depth at those spots....make it so the 3rd WR coming into the game is better then most teams number primary starters......get guys that can do multiple things.

[YattaOkasan]

7 minutes ago, Mango said:

 

 

 

 

 

I was originally talking about Allen's clunkers, where he failed to connect on at least 50% of his passes. I was asserting that when that happens, more often than not, most of the blame falls on the QB. Yes there is also blame on things like the OL, Defense, WR, etc. but largely, having a high frequency of games sub 50% is an issue with the passer himself. 

 

For reference, I quickly grabbed sub 50% completion games for QB's in their first 2 years/32 games, since 2000  Here are the bottom 20. It is not a great list

 

Granted there are some outliers, but it is not a great list of QB's. Most (not all) of which we would say were not good passers. The search function on PFR is awesome. 

 

Name	Number of Games Under 50% passing
Tim Tebow	10
Eli Manning	9
Joey Harrington	8
Michael Vick	8
Vince Young	8
Josh Allen	7
David Carr	7
Joe Flacco	7
Blaine Gabbert	7
Andrew Luck	7
Mike McMahon	7
Kyle Orton	7
Patrick Ramsey	7
JaMarcus Russell	7
Mark Sanchez	7
DeShone Kizer	6
Colt McCoy	6
Christian Ponder	6
Geno Smith	6
Brandon Weeden	6

 

Yup I was inclined to agree with you that if a QB is sub 50% it is mostly on him. I think it’s because the other parts that fail may still be because of him. But I also agree with Hap that it’s impossible to quantify. I’m so conflicted on this topic of how much his supporting cast let him down (particularly OL) because he has so many responsibilities.  Seeing growth in deep ball and this area is what I want. I’m just not sure how to quantify growth in this like I could the other areas like intermediate passing. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

35 minutes ago, Mango said:

I was originally talking about Allen's clunkers, where he failed to connect on at least 50% of his passes. I was asserting that when that happens, more often than not, most of the blame falls on the QB. Yes there is also blame on things like the OL, Defense, WR, etc. but largely, having a high frequency of games sub 50% is an issue with the passer himself. 

 

For reference, I quickly grabbed sub 50% completion games for QB's in their first 2 years/32 games, since 2000  Here are the bottom 20. It is not a great list

 

Granted there are some outliers, but it is not a great list of QB's. Most (not all) of which we would say were not good passers. The search function on PFR is awesome. 

 

Name	Number of Games Under 50% passing
Tim Tebow	10
Eli Manning	9
Joey Harrington	8
Michael Vick	8
Vince Young	8
Josh Allen	7
David Carr	7
Joe Flacco	7
Blaine Gabbert	7
Andrew Luck	7
Mike McMahon	7
Kyle Orton	7
Patrick Ramsey	7
JaMarcus Russell	7
Mark Sanchez	7
DeShone Kizer	6
Colt McCoy	6
Christian Ponder	6
Geno Smith	6
Brandon Weeden	6

 

I was going to go into this bit by bit, but the board dumped my response - probably just as well.

 

Let's just note that 4 of Allen's 7 games you list occurred his rookie season, when he was thrown into it halfway through Game 1 without the benefit of the 1st string reps (that's one of the games).  In another, Allen's 4th game against GB, we rushed for 58 freakin' yards (of which 19 were Allen's) and asked him to pass 33 times against GB's confusing coverage and rush.  We have the GM openly acknowledging "he didn't do enough" to put an OL and skill weapons around Allen that season.

 

And you want to use that to make a case that it's 50% the QB's fault when he doesn't hit 50% completions, because you assert that it's so?

 

What can I say.  We must agree to disagree, and that's That.

 

I note that there are 20 names on that list.  4 of them are QB with Superbowl wins, playoff appearances, probowl appearances, distinguished careers. 

 

[thebandit27]

1 hour ago, BringBackOrton said:

Where did Allen “not get much help?”

 

Let’s do a deep dive on his receiver’s stats. His top two targets ranked 47th and 78th in drop rates this season. John Brown’s yards per target was higher than Kelce, Sanders, Julio, Kupp, Landry, Woods, Cooks, Allen, Tate, Adams, Hopkins, Odell.

 

Oh no! Some one is bringing up stats that don’t make Allen look like he’s throwing to Wyoming level receivers!

Holy cripes, for real? You’re casting a brutal aspersion here that I think you’re too smart to believe.

 

I don’t know how it’s possible that folks like yourself can continue to brutally straw man this discussion into “nobody can criticize josh111!1!1!!!!2!2!!” It’s tiresome and silly.

 

How did he not get much help? Really? The team scored 35 total TDs this year. Josh had 29 of them. That’s by far the highest percentage in the NFL. Contrast that with Lamar Jackson (who lead all QBs in total TDs)...he scored 40. I’d tell you how many TDs his team scored apart from him, but it would ruin the shock value when you see just how many it was.

 

Look around the league. Most offenses don’t rely darn-near-solely on their QB to out the ball in the end zone.

 

And yes, it’s nice that John Brown has a career year. It’s also nice that Cole Beasley had a career year. Both did so in an offense that attempted fewer passes than all but 8 teams. No way that had anything to do with the QB though.

 

Once again I find myself astounded that the Allen detractors have to go to silly extremes in order to have a discussion. It’s unfathomable.

[BringBackOrton]

1 minute ago, thebandit27 said:

Holy cripes, for real? You’re casting a brutal aspersion here that I think you’re too smart to believe.

 

I don’t know how it’s possible that folks like yourself can continue to brutally straw man this discussion into “nobody can criticize josh111!1!1!!!!2!2!!” It’s tiresome and silly.

 

How did he not get much help? Really? The team scored 35 total TDs this year. Josh had 29 of them. That’s by far the highest percentage in the NFL. Contrast that with Lamar Jackson (who lead all QBs in total TDs)...he scored 40. I’d tell you how many TDs his team scored apart from him, but it would ruin the shock value when you see just how many it was.

 

Look around the league. Most offenses don’t rely darn-near-solely on their QB to out the ball in the end zone.

 

And yes, it’s nice that John Brown has a career year. It’s also nice that Cole Beasley had a career year. Both did so in an offense that attempted fewer passes than all but 8 teams. No way that had anything to do with the QB though.

 

Once again I find myself astounded that the Allen detractors have to go to silly extremes in order to have a discussion. It’s unfathomable.

Maybe the team would have scored more TDs if Josh and the O weren’t 26th in yards and plays per drive. 

 

It’s that pesky conundrum where the offensive positive stats are all because Josh was dragging those bums, and the negative stats are all because the rest of the offense sans Josh are bums.

[thebandit27]

41 minutes ago, BringBackOrton said:

Maybe the team would have scored more TDs if Josh and the O weren’t 26th in yards and plays per drive. 

 

It’s that pesky conundrum where the offensive positive stats are all because Josh was dragging those bums, and the negative stats are all because the rest of the offense sans Josh are bums.

Oh come on now. You know that’s not what I’ve said. Ever.

 

I have said that Allen is the only player on the offense that opposing DCs actually have to game plan to stop. I’ve also said that he’s simply not consistent enough for the team to produce offensively if he’s the sole focus of the opposing D’s game plan.

 

The fact of the matter with Allen is that he still misses too many throws, and he still fails to identify the easy (take what they give you) plays. I’ve said since March of 2018 that his missing throws is almost always due to him rushing his delivery, which results from the game moving too quickly. I have every reason to believe that he’ll continue to improve on that regard, but clearly he’s not where he needs to be. 
 

Now I shall go snack on a dark chocolate bar as I await the next person to tell me that pointing out an inaccuracy in a take means that nobody can criticize Josh ?

[BBills88]

Josh Allen will be a 64 - 65 % passer next season

[Mango]

50 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I was going to go into this bit by bit, but the board dumped my response - probably just as well.

 

Let's just note that 4 of Allen's 7 games you list occurred his rookie season, when he was thrown into it halfway through Game 1 without the benefit of the 1st string reps (that's one of the games).  In another, Allen's 4th game against GB, we rushed for 58 freakin' yards (of which 19 were Allen's) and asked him to pass 33 times against GB's confusing coverage and rush.  We have the GM openly acknowledging "he didn't do enough" to put an OL and skill weapons around Allen that season.

 

And you want to use that to make a case that it's 50% the QB's fault when he doesn't hit 50% completions, because you assert that it's so?

 

What can I say.  We must agree to disagree, and that's That.

 

I note that there are 20 names on that list.  4 of them are QB with Superbowl wins, playoff appearances, probowl appearances, distinguished careers. 

 

These are every bodies rookie years. Yes some guys panned out as very good QB’s and good passers. Most of them did not and had so Monday games in their first two years under 50% because they simply were not proficient passers (yet). 
 

I don’t know what to tell you man. If want to asterisk Allen’s games individually, go ahead and do it for everybody. I don’t think Allen is in this terribly bad place where we his situation is so much worse then his current and historical peers. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

6 minutes ago, thebandit27 said:

Now I shall go snack on a dark chocolate bar as I await the next person to tell me that pointing out an inaccuracy in a take means that nobody can criticize Josh ?

 

Please be careful.  If that's what you do for each instance, you shall be in danger of becoming pudgy.

2 minutes ago, Mango said:

These are every bodies rookie years.

 

You said "For reference, I quickly grabbed sub 50% completion games for QB's in their first 2 years/32 games, since 2000"

All those QB came into situations like Josh, devoid of OL and offensive talent?

All those QB were not supposed to start/not given 1st team reps during training camp?

 

Baloney.

 

Peace out.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Please be careful.  If that's what you do for each instance, you shall be in danger of becoming pudgy.

 

How do you know he isn't already?

 

 

[thebandit27]

3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Please be careful.  If that's what you do for each instance, you shall be in danger of becoming pudgy.

 

 

IIFYM bruh

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1 minute ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

How do you know he isn't already?

 

 

Maybe Hapless has seen pics of Mrs Bandit and figured that I must be a stud to land that fox ? 

[LSHMEAB]

20 hours ago, Mango said:

You mean like, when you look at him in shorts, it moves a little bit? 

That's not the sign. The sign is contact. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[LSHMEAB]

10 hours ago, pop gun said:

Josh is 5th in the league in how far the ball travels in the air towards it's target, he doesn't just settle for dump offs and he is not a checkdown charlie, which I like. Imagine if he did twice a game for 5 more yards his comp % would be well over 60% and the haters would be silent, but whatever. He's trying to get the ball down the field, he's aggressive, good and getting better. He's going to be a stud.

 

 

Games		Passing
Rk	Player	Tm	Age	Pos	G	GS	Cmp	Att	Yds	IAY	IAY/PA ▼	CAY	CAY/Cmp	CAY/PA	YAC	YAC/Cmp
1	Matthew Stafford	DET	31	QB	8	8	187	291	2499	3097	10.6	1609	8.6	5.5	890	4.8
2	Jameis Winston	TAM	25	QB	16	16	380	626	5109	6500	10.4	3249	8.6	5.2	1860	4.9
3	Ryan Tannehill	TEN	31	QB	12	10	201	286	2742	2715	9.5	1494	7.4	5.2	1248	6.2
4	Russell Wilson*	SEA	31	QB	16	16	341	516	4110	4836	9.4	2402	7.0	4.7	1708	5.0
5	Josh Allen	BUF	23	QB	16	16	271	461	3089	4271	9.3	1758	6.5	3.8	1331	4.9
6	Dak Prescott	DAL	26	QB	16	16	388	596	4902	5510	9.2	2984	7.7	5.0	1918	4.9
7	Deshaun Watson*	HOU	24	QB	15	15	333	495	3852	4400	8.9	2170	6.5	4.4	1682	5.1
8	Aaron Rodgers*	GNB	36	QB	16	16	353	569	4002	5005	8.8	1993	5.6	3.5	2009	5.7
9	Ryan Fitzpatrick	MIA	37	QB	15	13	311	502	3529	4442	8.8	2252	7.2	4.5	1277	4.1
10	Patrick Mahomes*	KAN	24	QB	14	14	319	484	4031	4273	8.8	2076	6.5	4.3	1955	6.1
11	Lamar Jackson*+	BAL	22	QB	15	15	265	401	3127	3545	8.8	1767	6.7	4.4	1360	5.1
12	Philip Rivers	LAC	38	QB	16	16	390	591	4615	5031	8.5	2430	6.2	4.1	2185	5.6
13	Baker Mayfield	CLE	24	QB	16	16	317	534	3827	4471	8.4	1992	6.3	3.7	1835	5.8
14	Sam Darnold	NYJ	22	QB	13	13	273	441	3024	3619	8.2	1554	5.7	3.5	1470	5.4
15	Matt Ryan	ATL	34	QB	15	15	408	616	4466	5007	8.1	2816	6.9	4.6	1650	4.0
16	Kyle Allen	CAR	23	QB	13	12	303	489	3322	3938	8.1	1641	5.4	3.4	1681	5.5
17	Carson Wentz	PHI	27	QB	16	16	388	607	4039	4878	8.0	2235	5.8	3.7	1804	4.6
18	Daniel Jones	NYG	22	QB	13	12	284	459	3027	3673	8.0	1619	5.7	3.5	1408	5.0
19	Mason Rudolph	PIT	24	QB	10	8	176	283	1765	2261	8.0	841	4.8	3.0	924	5.3
20	Mitchell Trubisky	CHI	25	QB	15	15	326	516	3138	4102	7.9	1729	5.3	3.4	1409	4.3
21	Jacoby Brissett	IND	27	QB	15	15	272	447	2942	3521	7.9	1437	5.3	3.2	1505	5.5
22	Jared Goff	LAR	25	QB	16	16	394	626	4638	4825	7.7	2388	6.1	3.8	2250	5.7
23	Tom Brady	NWE	42	QB	16	16	373	613	4057	4633	7.6	2233	6.0	3.6	1824	4.9
24	Kirk Cousins	MIN	31	QB	15	15	307	444	3603	3395	7.6	1818	5.9	4.1	1785	5.8
25	Andy Dalton	CIN	32	QB	13	13	314	528	3494	3969	7.5	1834	5.8	3.5	1660	5.3
26	Kyler Murray	ARI	22	QB	16	16	349	542	3722	3987	7.4	1870	5.4	3.5	1852	5.3
27	Gardner Minshew	JAX	23	QB	14	12	285	470	3271	3328	7.1	1687	5.9	3.6	1584	5.6
28	Case Keenum	WAS	31	QB	10	8	160	247	1707	1700	6.9	907	5.7	3.7	800	5.0
29	Joe Flacco	DEN	34	QB	8	8	171	262	1822	1750	6.7	915	5.4	3.5	907	5.3
30	Derek Carr	OAK	28	QB	16	16	361	513	4054	3364	6.6	1932	5.4	3.8	2122	5.9
31	Jimmy Garoppolo	SFO	28	QB	16	16	329	476	3978	3088	6.5	1806	5.5	3.8	2172	6.6
32	Drew Brees*	NOR	40	QB	11	11	281	378	2979	2443	6.5	1495	5.3	4.0	1484	5.3

That's all good and well, but the problem with this stat is that his YPA increased by a mere .1. As much progress as he made, he still only increased that number from 6.6 to 6.7. The key for Allen is not necessarily completion percentage, but yards per attempt. I don't care if his completion percentage remains stagnant if that YPA jumps into the 7.5 range. Air yards only matter if you're completing enough of the shots.