All week long from varying sources we've heard about how Bledsoe has surpassed Kelly's attempts record and with three more yards will surpass kelly's team yardage record of the '91 season.
Here's what's interesting:
My first thought was "big deal" b/c yardage doesn't mean squat w/o some points associated with them. That doesn't appear to bother too many others however.
By season's end, Bledsoe should have near 1,000 more passing yards than Kelly's best ever, possibly more.
But what has he done w/ those yards.
W/ 3,844 yards on 474 attempts, Kelly had 33 TDs. That's 1 TD per 14 attempts.
Drew is on pace to finish w/ well over 600 attempts averaging 40 per game. Extrapolated, that would be 630 attempts. He's averaging 1.3 TDs/game over the last 7 games. So 27 TDs +/- is to be expected. He can also be expected to throw for 900 more yards giving him 4,700 total on the season.
Given that, he would have 1 TD per 23 attempts.
Just some food for thought for anyone who believes that simply passing for yardage is any sort of milestone apart from everything else. Efficiency should certainly fit in there somewhere and it clearly doesn't seem to matter.
For Kelly, his numbers reflected one TD for every 116 yards passed for. For Drew, it would represent 1 TD for every 174 yards passed for. Even with his current totals, it's 1 TD for every 167 yards.
Additionally, Henry will do better than Thurman did both in rushing yardage and in TDs and Drew's had far superior WRs than Jim did.
Just some food for thought prior to the game on Sunday sparked by the curiosity at all the hoopla over "attempts" and "team record passing yardage" marks.
In any case, it does make a strong point that yardage apart from TDs is meaningless. Since Bledsoe career accolades are focused almost exclusively around his 'yardage' totals, I found it interesting.
Here's what's interesting:
My first thought was "big deal" b/c yardage doesn't mean squat w/o some points associated with them. That doesn't appear to bother too many others however.
By season's end, Bledsoe should have near 1,000 more passing yards than Kelly's best ever, possibly more.
But what has he done w/ those yards.
W/ 3,844 yards on 474 attempts, Kelly had 33 TDs. That's 1 TD per 14 attempts.
Drew is on pace to finish w/ well over 600 attempts averaging 40 per game. Extrapolated, that would be 630 attempts. He's averaging 1.3 TDs/game over the last 7 games. So 27 TDs +/- is to be expected. He can also be expected to throw for 900 more yards giving him 4,700 total on the season.
Given that, he would have 1 TD per 23 attempts.
Just some food for thought for anyone who believes that simply passing for yardage is any sort of milestone apart from everything else. Efficiency should certainly fit in there somewhere and it clearly doesn't seem to matter.
For Kelly, his numbers reflected one TD for every 116 yards passed for. For Drew, it would represent 1 TD for every 174 yards passed for. Even with his current totals, it's 1 TD for every 167 yards.
Additionally, Henry will do better than Thurman did both in rushing yardage and in TDs and Drew's had far superior WRs than Jim did.
Just some food for thought prior to the game on Sunday sparked by the curiosity at all the hoopla over "attempts" and "team record passing yardage" marks.
In any case, it does make a strong point that yardage apart from TDs is meaningless. Since Bledsoe career accolades are focused almost exclusively around his 'yardage' totals, I found it interesting.
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