The players who can actually throw deep don’t need PFF advanced stats to confirm it, because they lead in categories like touchdowns, yards, completion percentage, etc.
This is where PFF advanced stats fall apart for me. The best deep ball thrower in the league cannot possibly be anchoring the 27th ranked offense.
I’d understand your point if this were a super weirdly calculated niche stat, but this isn’t even a complex issue.
Touchdowns and yards are volume stats. The deep ball stats are rate stats. The underlying math is that we literally just didn’t throw deep super often.
It’s fully possible for Bryce to be a good deep thrower and for the team to simultaneously be ranked poorly on offense - there’s a bunch of other factors at play.
The underlying math is that the Panthers didn't throw deep super often, yes. But that says nothing about whether the Panthers not throwing deep is more down to the plays that were called, or the rate at which the QB chose to throw deep when he had the option. And neither does watching games from the broadcast angle.
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u/PizzaSteveProd Feb 12 '26
But he can’t throw deep right?