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What's happening is in using misleading averages 2 especially bad games tilt the numbers. The problem with averages is that they hid changes.
2 games, 7 turnovers. Indicative or a crisis that got fixed? You are talking about it as indicative. Why? On what basis?
Well it's 3 turnovers total since those 2 games. That includes 2 playoff games with none.
And for the entire season, minus those 2 games it's 10 turnovers including 9 INTs.
So again saying there;s this huge problem is equivalent to saying those 2 games are indicative and dominate the assessment.
But...why? Why isn't it a crisis that got fixed?
I guess people believe what they want.
So with that logic, I guess we would also have to disregard Goff's best 2 games where he had multiple TDs an no TOs...because they "tilt the numbers."
My guess is that TD/TO ratio, which is very poor, would calculate to about the same.
That's not the logic though. That's a caricature of the logic. You exclude the 2 best games if you claim they were significantly different from the other games in a key way--like for example in those 2 games they had drugged the other team before kick-off. That is you have to name a genuine reason why those games are exceptions and it can't just be because they were good or bad.
The claim, which you don't address, is that those 2 games represent a crisis that they worked on and fixed. That is, you are not likely to see 3+ multiple turnovers in more games and there;s a reason for that.
And yeah it was an issue and they fixed it.
In the Jets game and the 2nd Seattle game the same conditions existed that led to JG's mistakes in the Miami and 2nd SF game, but this time they DIDN'T lead to the same mistakes. In fact that applies to the GB game too. In all 3 of those games the defense attacked the OL, overwhelmed it, and put on heavy pressure. Against Miami and in SF game 2 Goff kept pressing to make plays when he shouldn't have. In the 3 other games since then facing the same conditions, he took the sack, he bailed on the play, he ran (and slid), he threw the ball away--he did not try to force a play while in a vulnerable position.
So he learned from those 2 games. Because of that those 2 games are exceptions--having learned from them he was not as likely to repeat the same mistakes that had led to multiple turnovers in the 2 disaster games.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2021 03:41PM by zn.
