Marcus Mariota is having the typical QB rookie season in the NFL. He has had is ups (Perfect passer rating against the Buccaneers and outplaying Drew Bress in New Orleans) and his downs (Back to back poor games against the Bills and Dolphins) throughout the season. Altogether, his stats show that he is having an overall solid season as he is 19th in yards per game (249.3), 20th in Completion Percentage (62.8), 15th in TDs (16), 14th in Passer Rating (92.8), and has only thrown 8 INTs in 9 games played. His last game against the Oakland Raiders was one of his lows as it was his first game all season that he didn’t complete over 50% of his passes. This was surprising to me as the Raiders have one of the worst pass defense in the league on the surface as they are 29th in passing yards per game allowed (282.7). But the rest of their stats are respectable as they are 14th in Y/A allowed (7.1) and completion percentage (62.6), 16th in TD allowed (19), T-9th in INTs (11), and 15th in passer rating allowed (87.8). This article dives into the film to see why Mariota struggled against an underrated but average Oakland Raiders secondary despite the three touchdown passes. … Article continues here
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There is a trend to focus on the amazing things that happened in the game. For example, I wrote about Eli Manning’s great performance about the Saints last week. But for every amazing performance, there is usually a terrible performance that goes along with it. I want to focus on a terrible performance this week and I decided to look at the Saints rushing attack against the Titans. The Saints have been great on offense this year with the second most yards per game (421.7) and sixth most point per game (26.8) but it has been no thanks to its running game efficiency. They have the 25th ranked rushing attack (95.0) and 30th ranked YPA (3.6) in the league and the game against the Titans was statistically their worst performance of the year in terms of efficiency. This is surprising for two reasons. The first is the Saints looked like they had turned around the rushing attack as in three of their last four games (@Eagles, @Colts, vs. Giants) they had run for over 4.0 yards per carry. The second is the Titans have one of the most average run defenses in the league as they are 17th in yards allowed per game (111.5) and 15th in yards allowed per attempt (4.1). … Article continues here