Quick Reads Decade in Review: QB Games
via FootballOutsidersBest Games:4. Jared Goff (RAMS vs MIN, 2018) 26/33, 466 yards, 5 TD/0 INT, 1 sack
Goff had one stretch over the second and third quarters where he picked up first downs on six straight throws, gaining 151 yards and two touchdowns in the process. Then he had first downs on seven straight throws over the third and fourth quarters, gaining 123 yards and a touchdown. Each of those 13 throws gained at least 11 yards.
Worst Games:7. Nick Foles (RAMS @ GB, 2015) 11/29, 141 yards, 1 TD/4 INT, 3 sacks
Hoo boy. If opponent adjustments and league baselines hold steady, this will be one of the 25 worst games we've ever measured, and the worst since Teddy Bridgewater's eight-sack day against Detroit in Week 6 last year. (It was not quite as bad as Bridgewater's game, but it was the 26th-worst game on record.) The Rams seemed to know he was in for a bad day; they only asked him to pass four times on first down, and only once in the first half. Eventually though, they got to third down, and then Foles was screwed. All four of his interceptions came on third downs, and all with 7 to 9 yards to go for a conversion. And they weren't on deep balls either -- all four were thrown to receivers within 7 yards of the line of scrimmage. Two of them came in the red zone in the fourth quarter.
