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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216
of course. they throw short passes too. ive mentioned that pages ago lol. but the west coast system was built for exactly that
im not evne sure what argument youre attemptin to make
i guess that yds/att is a valuable stat cause pats run a specific offense?? lol really not sure
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Well the WCO utilizes deep passes pretty often as well, despite it's reputation as a short yardage scheme. If it didn't, teams would just play man-to-man, and that wouldn't be a very effective scheme, using short yardage passes against man-to-man is like trying to run when the other team is blitzing the house in a 46 package. So, you mix it up, just like with every other scheme, to try and keep the defense on their heels. This is called randomizing your playcalls, and Bill Walsh was the best at it.
And no, that's not the argument I'm trying to make. It's that YPA isn't a useless stat because you think that completing a short pass that goes a long way is somehow a valid argument, when in reality every good scheme utilizes a mix of short and deep passes, as well as the run. In a nutshell, you only had to read one sentence to see what I was getting at, I asked you if a 2 QBs with the same amount of attempts, the same amount of TDs and the same amount of INTs are being compared, but one has more YPA, then wouldn't that make the one with more YPA the more productive QB? It absolutely, literally does make him the more productive QB.