Joe Flacco has struggled mightily throwing the deep ball.
I feel like I’ve seen a lot of deep passes under-thrown by Joe Flacco this season. Apparently, I’m not crazy. Thank goodness.
Steve Palazzolo of Pro Football Focus tweets that Flacco’s accuracy percentage on deep balls is 22.6 percent this season. That’s the worst in the NFL.
Joe Flacco's accuracy percentage on deep balls is 22.6%, worst in the league
— Steve Palazzolo (@StevePalazzolo) November 18, 2013
Yeah, but what about all the dropped passes? I mean, the Ravens receivers aren’t exactly an elite bunch either.
I’m glad you brought that up. Accuracy percentage is an advanced statistic that counts drops as a positive for quarterbacks. It also eliminates throwaways, spikes or balls that were batted at the line.
What is considered a “deep pass“?
Another great question, thanks again for asking. Any pass that travels over 20 yards in the air.
While we’re piling on the depressing stats, Flacco also passed his career high in interceptions in a single season with 13. His two picks in Chicago gave the Bears 10 easy points.
Six-years. $120.6 million. A career-high 13 interceptions. The NFL’s worst accuracy percentage on deep passes. Not a good combination.
You need to talk to Lund. He is still fluffing Flacco so much that it is hard to read. I’ve been saying this for years. Flacco is a mediocore QB that had a good supporting staff and 4 great games in the playoffs. We should have offered him 80 and let him walk because no one would have touched him
Can’t disagree with you that he’s poorly underperformed this season and has regressed, but you do realize he would have gotten paid either way. They wouldn’t let him walk and no, Alex Smith (the game manager) wasn’t an option at any point. Who do you suggest the Ravens made the QB if they let Joe walk?
If we let Flacco walk, who would have come in and played QB? You can’t expect Tyrod Taylor to come in and play any better than what you’re getting right now.
Who is playing QB for the Ravens now? No one!
JarJar has been calling it with MGW and myself for years. Flacco is overrated. In fact, the most overrated player in football. Without good players making outstanding catches on his overthrown balls or having to stop and wait for the ball to get to them like Jacoby Jones had to twice in the playoffs last year, Flacco is now being shown for what he is, average at best.
And Harbaugh lost the true coaches in Reed, Lewis, Pollard, Johnson, etc so now he’s exposed as a fraud as well.
Alex Smith was on the market, and he may not have the ability to Win games but he doesn’t loose them like Joe. Tell me what team would have paid more then 100 for him? I can’t think of any, we could have also put the tag on him. Which now would have been a great deal going into a contract year next year. Joe you won the SB but sucked all year sorry here is your 80 take it or leave it.
You make a good point, I forgot Alex Smith was available.
Look Ravens fans (those of you who know who Michael Jackson is), the Ravens rode the coat tails of HOFers Lewis, Reed, and perennial pro bowlers Boldin, Pollard, Birk to the highs of 5 straight playoff appearances and a Super Bowl title. All the while we heard rumblings from departing players about who was actually running the team.
You cannot take anything away from Harbaugh, like Switzer and Altobelli in baseball, the coaching staff stood back and let their stars take over and they won a championship. Credit them for not getting in he way.
But now the dust has settled and you still have a guy with no true knowledge of offense or defense, poor time management in game, no sense of when to throw a challenge flag, little ability to make changes within the game, and yet we seem surprised?!?
Watch the games, fellas.
Enjoy and relish in their winning a championship, it’s something a few teams have never done and something a few teams haven’t done in decades. Enjoy it.
But don’t kid yourselves, Harbaugh did little more than NOT screw it up.
Nobody has given an answer to Matt’s question above which was the same question MGW was giving back in the summer whenever anyone questioned the great “Buck”. Who do you replace Flacco and Harbaugh with? Smith has only became a winner when he had a top ranked defense playing for him. What was his record in SF before the defense became top notch? He was 19-31, the Ravens defense isn’t good enough to keep a game manager like Smith in the winning column.
I don’t even have to go into Harbugh’s stats because they speak for themselves. Who are you going to hire to replace Harbaugh??
Provide some answers instead of using this blog to further your agenda. Magnify any problem with the Ravens because you don’t like the coach and owner over some slight you felt from the organization. Yet tow the company lineline when it comes to the O’s and cut them any break you possibly can.
Here are the coaches I would have hired when Billick was fired and you can Monday Morning Quarterback them all you want because some are good and some are bad, but I’ve gone on record with this before:
1. Jack Del Rio – Did a pretty decent job at Jax, even more evident now that the wheels have fallen off the wagon down there. He was a Raven who was there during the good times as an LB coach.
Marvin Lewis – Some contend that he was the mastermind behind Billick, maybe so. Again, I see him as a Raven and a pretty shrewd guy who knows defense. He’s struggled in Cincy, but hey, who hasn’t?
I was also pretty excited when they were talking to Jason Garrett. I know he’s struggled in Dallas, but you’ve asked me “who I wanted?”. Hindsight is always 20-20, but I thought at the time he was a good replacement for Billick.
As far as QB, I don’t really have an issue with Flacco. I guess Alex Smith is a good answer, but I don’t recall ever being overly critical of Flacco. I do think his arm strength is WAAAAAAAAAAAY overexaggerated as I continually see him underthrow deep passes.
And while some toss out there “The Orioles need an Ace” with NO real, viable answers, my candidates were all available.
I’m still firmly in Flacco’s corner because he’s shown he can win games for this team and has enough tangibles that he isn’t a complete failure as a QB (see: Kyle Boller) that being said, I’m not stupid or have purple blinders on. I recognize that Joe Flacco will NEVER be able to carry an offense himself like a Rodgers, Brady, Brees. This is evident this season.
It’s not happening.
He can, however, be a part in something to win it all. (See: Last season)
You take the good with the bad, but it needs to be built better around him. The Tandon Doss’ and Ed Dickson’s of the world aren’t cutting it.
At the end of the day they had to pay Flacco. We can talk all we want about how bad his contract is, but it doesn’t change the fact that he earned it. That’s the price Bisciotti pays for gambling and waiting til after he won the Super Bowl.
Rice, Ngata and Webb’s contracts on the other hand…
Agreed, the process in which the NFL structures contracts didn’t give the Ravens much wiggle room. Also agree with Matt, Flacco isn’t elite even if his salary might be in elite status. Flacco hasn’t been able to carry this team on his back whatsoever.
MGW, you’ve given me your picks and none of them have the numbers Harbaugh has, not even close. At least you gave me your choices and were honest with their results to date. We had a discussion today and I appreciate the bantor. See you around campus.