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Originally Posted by tolbiny
Favre's best seasons are when he throws the least. If you go to profootball-reference and sort by # of attempts you see that the 7 years he threw the fewest passes are all pro bowl years while none of his 5 highest years of attempts are.
to me this is always one of the worst stats in football.
ooh when a team gets 30 attempts they win. well maybe they got 30 attempts because they were way ahead. its backwards they played really well hence they got to sit on the ball.
same thing with qbs. when they have an efficient day or the offense as a whole has an efficient day there is no need to chuck it around the park as much.
a bad defense that always puts you behind causes qbs to have to throw 50
times in spots that the defense knows you have to throw. hence, your efficiency stats suffer.
measuring an individual players' ability in football is one the toughest things to do.