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Colt McCoy
Here are all of his plays in GFY form.
Articles written about Colt McCoy on a weekly performance basis:
Kirk Cousins lost the quarterback job after McCoy led the Redskins to a comeback victory against the Titans in Week 7. The following week, McCoy led the Redskins to a Monday night upset victory over the Cowboys in AT&T stadium. It must be noted that the defense played exceptional all evening led by rookie cornerback Bashaud Breeland’s stellar play. RG3 returned from injury to reclaim the starting quarterback position in Week 9 against the Vikings, but was benched in favor of McCoy after two horrible games against the Buccaneers and the 49ers. McCoy made some good throws and probably would have kept the starting quarterback position for the rest of the season, but he suffered back-to-back neck injuries against the Rams and Giants in Weeks 14 and 15, respectively, and was put on injured reserve for the remainder of the season.
Against the Titans, McCoy threw with anticipation on short routes like in his first pass of the game. It was a simple hitch route that was excellently thrown to Garcon that resulted in a 70 yard score due to Garcon’s running ability. In Week 13, McCoy looked very impressive against the Colts defense. He started the game shakily missing some routine throws, but ended up putting a good game together even though the Redskins were blown out by Luck. The same can not be said about the Wweek 14 matchup versus the Rams however.
Against the Rams, McCoy missed a lot of easy throws and was generally inaccurate. A very dissapointing performance that ended early with a neck injury. McCoy was cleared by the medical staff, but suffered a second neck injury at the end of the first quarter against the Giants (Week 15) and was placed on injured reserve shortly after.
Let’s take a look at some of McCoy’s throws to illustrate a few points about his game:
1. Accuracy (Short/Medium/Deep) - Rank: #2/3
a. Short-Medium Accuracy
Play 2 - McCoy has trips right and finds Roberts on an out-route for the first down. Excellent ball placement to make sure Roberts was the only player that could come down with the ball.
Play 5 - Play-action bootleg to the left, McCoy finds Jackson over the middle on a crossing route for what could have been a huge gain. Instead, McCoy places the ball inaccurately behind and low not allowing Jackson any yards after the catch. This is a throw that McCoy NEEDs to get better at. Very dissapointing as this was an easy opportunity.
Play 17 - Quick slant route to Reed. Excellent short throw over the middle.
Play 20 - Easy drag route pass that McCoy misses high and behind to Garcon.
Play 25 - Overthrown ball over the middle to Grant on a post-route that was intercepted.
b. Deep Accuracy - Rank: #2/3
Play 9 - McCoy throws off his back-foot deep left to Jackson on a go-route. Underthrown ball from backfoot. He was about to be hit though.
Play 25 - Excellent inside shoulder deep go-route throw to Jackson. Davis was beat off of the snap, but was overpursuing so the underthrown, short throw was actually well placed.
2. Vision and Decision-Making - Rank: #1/3
Play 6 - McCoy led the Redskins to a victory against Dallas, but it wasn’t all pretty. In this play, McCoy stares down his receiver and completely doesn’t see the safety in Cover 2 when he should have thrown short to Jackson in the flat. Awful decision and throw.
Play 10 - McCoy trips in the backfield and is able to scramble up the pocket for 7 yards. Excellent recovery and decision showing his very underrated mobility.
Play 15 - McCoy stares down his first wide receiver and ends up taking a sack. His receiver was covered the entire play, he needs to continue through his progressions.
3. Pocket Presence - Rank: #1/3
Play 4 - McCoy senses the pressure coming from the stunts between the RT and RT so he scrambles outside avoiding the sack. If McCoy could have kept the ball in-bounds this would have been a touchdown.
4. Arm Strength - Rank: #3/3
Play 7 - Underthrown deep ball to Jackson on a deep-post route. Jackson had the etnire defense beat. This needs to be thrown 5 yards longer for Jackson to catch it in stride.
Play 14 - McCoy throws the ball to Jackson on an out-route. The ball is left underthrown for what could have been an easy completion based on Jackson’s separation from his defender.
5. Anticipation - Rank: #1/3
Play 1 - McCoy’s first pass of the season after replacing Kirk Cousins was to Garcon on a hitch route. Garcon’s YAC-ability should definitely be noted, but it was McCoy’s excellent anticipation on this throw that allowed Garcon to make a move unimpeded after the catch.
Play 22 - Excellent anticipation on comeback route to Jackson.
As you can see from these plays, McCoy made good decisions most of his plays. Automatically, based on Gruden’s system of short passes and crossing routes, McCoy will look better due to his excellent anticipation and surprising mobility, but his lack of arm strength and inconsistent accuracy especially in the Rams game does not give the Redskins a chance to win in the long run unfortunately.
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On the final page we look at a full comparison between the three quarterbacks.
