Re: Cornell Powell

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Aug 15, 2018, 7:31 AM

It wasn't the WR's as much as some of you think.. Hate to break it to you. Cain had issues, but that's about it. Feel free to read below (3rd paragraph if you want to stay in denial on Bryant's stats):

https://www.cfbfilmroom.com/2018/01/16/kelly-bryant-2017-passing-chart/

Kelly Bryant’s downfield passing numbers severely limited Clemson’s big-play ability and appeared to play a role in the play calling. Bryant completed just 25.6 percent of his passes thrown 20 or more yards downfield, a huge dropoff from Watson’s 40 percent a season ago. Additionally, Bryant’s 43 pass attempts at 20+ yards downfield were less than half of Watson’s 90 attempts. In fact, Watson threw more touchdown passes 20+ yards downfield (13) than Bryant had total completions at that depth (11).

Bryant’s struggles as a passer weren’t limited just to deep throws, however. On attempts 10 or more yards downfield, Bryant completed just 46.3 percent of his throws, with eight touchdowns and five interceptions. Overall, Bryant’s average completion traveled just 5.6 yards in the air.

Some fans might be inclined to point out that Bryant was hurt by drops this season, which is true to an extent. Clemson’s leading receiver Deon Cain had a disappointing 12.5 percent drop rate. However, Bryant’s receivers only had an overall drop rate of 8.0 percent, which was actually an improvement from the 10.5 percent drop rate Watson suffered from a season ago.

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People just need to learn how to put the blame where it belongs. The main person that dropped passes was Cain...not Ray Ray, not Renfrow, not Thompson, Powell, Overton, Higgins, or Rodgers. But the lack of a deep ball WAS Bryant.

Let's look at an extreme way of looking at it. Let's "pretend" all of Cain's dropped passes were on a deep ball (yes, I know several were shorter throws but...for proof sake, let's look at the extreme way). So Cain dropped 12.5% of his passes. So, KB had 43 passes past 20 yards. If all dropped of those were Cain, that means Cain dropped 5 of 43 passes at the worst. Since KB was 11-43, we'll remove those 5, so now KB was 11-38 without Cain's drops. That's still only 28.9% completions. Now it says receivers averaged 8%...so let's use that on the 38...that'd be 3 more dropped passes. So now he's 11-35 passes not dropped. Still only 31% completions...which means 69% of his deep throws were either under thrown, over thrown, or had good defending against it.

And that's likely the best you can make it look.

Cornell Powell