![]() Remember that PFF isn’t especially enamored of Jones - he was 20th in overall passing grade at 71.1 last season. There’s Danny Dimes with a 91.8 PFF passing grade on 20+ yard passes, eighth in the NFL. Here’s another sorting of the same table, this time looking at the top 10 QBs in PFF grade when throwing passes 20+ yards downfield (areas with gray shading at the top are for deep passes): Data from Pro Football Focus It’s a league in which being able to connect on deep passes with pass rushers bearing down on you matters. The NFL isn’t a punt, pass, and kick competition, however. You just have to watch them all a few times to realize that. It’s true that Jones doesn’t have as strong an arm as Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, and several others. You see it on Twitter, in the comments section of Big Blue View, even occasionally from other NFL players. The results above have created a narrative that Jones does not have a strong arm and cannot throw deep. If that continues, there is just about no way for the Giants to become a dangerous passing offense in the modern NFL, and no way that Jones sees all four seasons of his new contract. ![]() Zach Wilson (279 dropbacks), Mitchell Trubisky (195), Taylor Heinecke (292), and Sam Darnold (162) all had more 20+ yard passes than Jones despite dropping back about half as often or even less. Jones dropped back to pass 571 times last season. If that’s not bad enough, look at some of the people ahead of him.34 in the NFL in passes of at least 20 yards last season (the last column in the table), with only 23 in 16 games. Here are the 2022 NFL rankings in number of passes thrown at least 20 yards, the standard for explosive passing plays (if the pass is completed), from Pro Football Focus: Data from Pro Football Focusįorgive the big table, but I want to use it to make two points: One thing he was not, however, was a creator of explosive passing plays. Most importantly, he was 9-6-1 in the regular season, leading his team to a playoff berth and having maybe his finest game as a pro in his first playoff game. He was in the top 10 in QBR and almost in the top 10 in expected points added. He had career highs in passing yards, completion percentage, yards per attempt, passer rating, QBR, rushing yards and TDs, game winning drives, and fourth quarter comebacks. In many respects 2022 was Daniel Jones’ finest season as a pro.
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