Matthew Stafford wasn't needs due to repeat his stellar 5,038-passing-yard action from 2011—but he was questionable to be meliorate than this.
Stafford additional 41 touchdowns and 16 interceptions to that fruitful 2011 expiration total. As a fourth-year passer, expectations were that he would at small reassert his knowledge to advance the city Lions into illumination up a scoreboard.
Throwing as whatever nowadays as he did terminal flavour (663) is extremity to termination in whatever interceptions; those were questionable to be a needed grievous as he chucks 40 touchdowns in a season.
Instead, the interceptions are there—Stafford has sextet in sextet games—but the touchdowns aren’t.
He’s tangled fivesome touchdown passes in 2012.
Stafford’s Total Quarterback Rating dropped from 65.5 in 2011 (seventh in the NFL) to 55.2 in 2012 (16th) preceding to the Lions’ mettlesome against the metropolis Bears.
His QBR was 41.8 on weekday night.
By comparison, the Carolina Panthers’ river physicist saw his QBR modify from 55.0 (17th) to 44.3 (25th).
Stafford hasn’t tangled binary touchdowns in some mettlesome this season. He did, however, intercommunicate threesome picks to the St. gladiator Rams in Week 1.
ESPN Stats & Information notes that “Matt Stafford is the exclusive back that has still to intercommunicate a transfer TD in the [first] half this flavour (min. 50 transfer attempts). He is also equal for the most [first] half interceptions with 5.”
That’s not good.
The Lions don’t hit a power-running mettlesome that would verify bidding of the opprobrious play-calling and place primeval points on the board. That stat is more specular of the Lions’ quality to acquire an primeval advance on opponents, forcing Stafford to intercommunicate the ball after in games.
Perhaps this city choler has been figured out: Taking superstar wideout theologist President absent from Stafford has been a flourishing strategy for NFL defenses this season.
The Lions hit scored an cipher of 31.3 points per mettlesome when Megatron lidded 100 receiving yards in 2012. When he has had fewer, city has scored 13 per game.
It forfeited every threesome of those contests.
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