Favre td to int ratio

[Tony Oday]

The problem with Favre is, he likes to throw ints at the most opportune time. No one would be talking about 4-26 or 4-1 if not for 1st and 10 in overtime against the Eagles after the Pack defense had just got the ball back. Throw it away, hell even take a sack, and hope would still be alieve and Pack would have gone on to beat Carolina and win the SB.

That game wasn't Mike Sherman's fault.


LOL I love it use a Favre thread to defend Sherman. Was it Favres fault that Sherman lost the guts to go for it on 4th and 1 the way Green was running and let the Eagles Back into the game? Good job GREAT coaching there.

[red]

you also have to consider going for it all at the end of a half, where a qb has nothing to lose and everything to gain if his guy catches it in the endzone

or a third and long situation, where a qb can either check down and find the dump off pass that will come up well short of the first down, and then punt, or throw it up long and maybe get the first down. and if its picked off you are no worse off then if you punted. if you're down by 14 with 5 seconds left in the half and you know your kicker can't make the kick, then you can either throw the hail marry which has a good chance of getting picked off, but doesn't hurt you unless its returned all the way, or you can kneel down and piss off your fans

favre had quite a few of these last year

and also ints thrown while trailing or leading. if a team is down 21 points in the 4th with 5 minutes left, a team and qb are going to take more chances then they normaly would

[pbmax]

or a third and long situation, where a qb can either check down and find the dump off pass that will come up well short of the first down, and then punt, or throw it up long and maybe get the first down. and if its picked off you are no worse off then if you punted.

A good number of West Coast offense routes are designed to be check off length and expect the receiver to make more yardage after the catch.

If time is short, then going deep, regardless of coverage, has merit. But going deep on third and long is not such a sure thing.

I am also dubious of this assertion because not even Sherman Lewis, the man who ushered in the Go Deep era, designed third and long plays that had all three receivers running deep routes. 3rd and 6 doesn't require a Go route or a post. Part of the third down equation has to be the QB making the right read, not just going deep "trying to make a play".

[havanother]

Favre's int's do happen at critical points, but that's when most int's do. third and 20 or a must make 4th down play. At least those are the int's that everyone will remember. Noboday cares about the picks that happen and don't swing the game one way or another. When he throw's a pick on 2 and 8 and then the opposing team goes three and out or just kicks a field goal everyone thinks "okay we dodged a bullet" and it's never talked about.

[packinpatland]

I wish someone (I have limited computer skills) would zip this very well done ratio int/td list to that biased hunk of junk, Dr. Z, over at SportsIllustrated.
Thanks for spending the time compiling the info, great job!