Quote:He also threw a td for a "game winning drive" which their "clutch" metric should like and had a higher comp % and more yards.


Traditional QB Rating


Blake 91

Mariota 81


That seems better to me


On a side note. JT was open, the ball was in a bad spot. Further outside or like you said over the defender and it's a 1st down.

 

I'm a much bigger fan of the traditional.  I'm not saying Blake had a horrible game, but I can see why someone who puts some sort of model together could give Blake a grade lower than Mariota would have had.  Blake had two turnovers and one passing td.  Mariota had the one rushing td and no turnovers.  Blake did more going beyond that than Mariota did and I think that's where ESPN misses the mark.

 

Blake throws the ball down the field and Mariota is a short/mid range guy.  Their only scoring guy was throwing it down the field and praying for a penalty.

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