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Nick Foles was worse than his conventional stats looked
Posted by Michael David Smith on February 18, 2016
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Rams quarterback Nick Foles had a bad season last year, which is why he went from being anointed as the franchise quarterback to getting benched for Case Keenum. But Foles’ season was even worse than his stats suggest.
Foles completed 190 of 337 passes for 2,052 yards, a completion rate of 56.4 percent and an average of 6.1 yards per pass. Those numbers aren’t particularly good on their own, but those bad stats are dwarfed by another stat that shows just how terrible Foles really was: Failed completions.
As explained by Scott Kacsmar of FootballOutsiders.com, failed completions are complete passes that fail to gain 45 percent of needed yards on first down, 60 percent on second down or 100 percent on third or fourth down. An eight-yard completion on third-and-10, for instance, would pad a quarterback’s conventional stats, but it would be counted as a failed completion.
And Foles has elevated failed completions to an art form: A whopping 41.1 percent of Foles’ completions were failed completions. That’s by far the worst rate in the NFL this season, and it’s the worst rate in the NFL since at least 1989, which is as far back as Football Outsiders’ stats go.
In other words, for as bad as Foles’ stats look, he actually padded his stats with a lot of four-yard completions on second-and-10, or nine-yard completions on third-and-12. Foles had an ugly 69.0 passer rating in 2015, but he was even worse than his stats suggest.
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Having watched every game, I’d say that he was even worse than that. He was complete garbage.
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Foles looked bad, really bad. But he had little in the way of receivers, no offensive line, and a bad offensive coordinator.
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If you blame the Rams OL, you have exposed yourself as someone who knows ZERO about the 2015 Rams.
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I watched every game and his play was up and down until the Vikings game and then he imploded.
Foles is bad when he is constantly under pressure, but once they lost 3 of their 5 starters on the OL their whole offense went in the tank, including Gurley. Keenum fared better with the makeshift line, but he also benefited from better play calling.
Havenstein coming back finally stabilized things because it allowed them to shift their backups into their correct roles.
I really hope the Rams make a move in FA or the draft for a QB, but if they don’t I wouldn’t be shocked to see Foles looks better than Keenum in training camp. He’s the better of the two when the OL and receivers are performing well. Maybe the Rams will remember his 2015 meltdown and stick with Keenum even if Foles plays better.
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As a former Ram fan it truly was the worst quarterback play I’ve ever seen. He had no business being on the field.
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Everyone knows Uncle Rico was the one with the arm in that family.
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Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Akili Smith, Tim Couch and Dan Orlovsky want to thank FootballOutsiders for finding someone worst than them……
Nick Foles was worse than his conventional stats looked
Posted by Michael David Smith on February 18, 2016
Rams quarterback Nick Foles had a bad season last year, which is why he went from being anointed as the franchise quarterback to getting benched for Case Keenum. But Foles’ season was even worse than his stats suggest.
Foles completed 190 of 337 passes for 2,052 yards, a completion rate of 56.4 percent and an average of 6.1 yards per pass. Those numbers aren’t particularly good on their own, but those bad stats are dwarfed by another stat that shows just how terrible Foles really was: Failed completions.
As explained by Scott Kacsmar of FootballOutsiders.com, failed completions are complete passes that fail to gain 45 percent of needed yards on first down, 60 percent on second down or 100 percent on third or fourth down. An eight-yard completion on third-and-10, for instance, would pad a quarterback’s conventional stats, but it would be counted as a failed completion.
And Foles has elevated failed completions to an art form: A whopping 41.1 percent of Foles’ completions were failed completions. That’s by far the worst rate in the NFL this season, and it’s the worst rate in the NFL since at least 1989, which is as far back as Football Outsiders’ stats go.
In other words, for as bad as Foles’ stats look, he actually padded his stats with a lot of four-yard completions on second-and-10, or nine-yard completions on third-and-12. Foles had an ugly 69.0 passer rating in 2015, but he was even worse than his stats suggest.
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Having watched every game, I’d say that he was even worse than that. He was complete garbage.
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Foles looked bad, really bad. But he had little in the way of receivers, no offensive line, and a bad offensive coordinator.
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If you blame the Rams OL, you have exposed yourself as someone who knows ZERO about the 2015 Rams.
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I watched every game and his play was up and down until the Vikings game and then he imploded.
Foles is bad when he is constantly under pressure, but once they lost 3 of their 5 starters on the OL their whole offense went in the tank, including Gurley. Keenum fared better with the makeshift line, but he also benefited from better play calling.
Havenstein coming back finally stabilized things because it allowed them to shift their backups into their correct roles.
I really hope the Rams make a move in FA or the draft for a QB, but if they don’t I wouldn’t be shocked to see Foles looks better than Keenum in training camp. He’s the better of the two when the OL and receivers are performing well. Maybe the Rams will remember his 2015 meltdown and stick with Keenum even if Foles plays better.
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As a former Ram fan it truly was the worst quarterback play I’ve ever seen. He had no business being on the field.
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Everyone knows Uncle Rico was the one with the arm in that family.
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Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Akili Smith, Tim Couch and Dan Orlovsky want to thank FootballOutsiders for finding someone worst than them……
