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As i get ready to cut up every offensive play for App State (which probably wont be uploaded until tomorrow), here is some small notes for the offense courtesy of CFB Film breakdown.
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Brad Kaaya
For those who arent sure what they are looking at, ill just point out a few things.
-293 out of Kaaya's 512 passing yards (57%) is to the left side of the field. Over 100 yards of that is solely off the screen game, and 123 yards of it came from Ahmmon Richards against App State, where he had 2 notable receptions of 61 and 62 yards.
If you look at this link: https://www.profootballfocus.com/qbs-in-focus-pass-direction/
You can read it and see that Kaaya is simlar to Tom Brady. How? Not only is he efficient on the left side of the field, but he is oddly underwhelming on the right side of the field, just like Tom Brady.
Kaaya is 8 of 18 for passes on the right side (compared to 13 of 20 on the left). Although he has more yardage on the right side than the middle of the field, you have to take into account that about 6 or maybe even all 7 of his passes under 10 yards to that side of the field is a screen play. He is 1/6 for passes over 10 yards to that side, with the one reception being to a wide open Stacy Coley. Speaking of Coley....he was notorious in the statistical CFB world for having a high catch rate when targetted last year. This year however, he has been targetted 8 times for passes over 15 yards and has only 1 catch in such circumstances. I will note however, that "catch rate" takes into account any ball that was touched. So if Coley was targeted, but over thrown, that wont affect his catch rate.
In passes over 20 yards, Kaaya is 4 of 11. Overall, thats pretty average on deep passes, but encouraging considering that when we began to open the play book a little against App State, we got 3 of those completions against them. Its also proving that the opposing teams respect our deep play ability...All the completions of 20+ yards resulted in gains of 45+ yards...but only 1 yielded a touch down. I havent looked at every single play, but thats a sign of having slow receivers who cant get away. But since we know Richards isnt slow, in this case it shows our deep pass was respected enough to have a safety always over top, instead of trusting their CB's on an Island with our receivers.
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Brad Kaaya
For those who arent sure what they are looking at, ill just point out a few things.
-293 out of Kaaya's 512 passing yards (57%) is to the left side of the field. Over 100 yards of that is solely off the screen game, and 123 yards of it came from Ahmmon Richards against App State, where he had 2 notable receptions of 61 and 62 yards.
If you look at this link: https://www.profootballfocus.com/qbs-in-focus-pass-direction/
You can read it and see that Kaaya is simlar to Tom Brady. How? Not only is he efficient on the left side of the field, but he is oddly underwhelming on the right side of the field, just like Tom Brady.
Kaaya is 8 of 18 for passes on the right side (compared to 13 of 20 on the left). Although he has more yardage on the right side than the middle of the field, you have to take into account that about 6 or maybe even all 7 of his passes under 10 yards to that side of the field is a screen play. He is 1/6 for passes over 10 yards to that side, with the one reception being to a wide open Stacy Coley. Speaking of Coley....he was notorious in the statistical CFB world for having a high catch rate when targetted last year. This year however, he has been targetted 8 times for passes over 15 yards and has only 1 catch in such circumstances. I will note however, that "catch rate" takes into account any ball that was touched. So if Coley was targeted, but over thrown, that wont affect his catch rate.
In passes over 20 yards, Kaaya is 4 of 11. Overall, thats pretty average on deep passes, but encouraging considering that when we began to open the play book a little against App State, we got 3 of those completions against them. Its also proving that the opposing teams respect our deep play ability...All the completions of 20+ yards resulted in gains of 45+ yards...but only 1 yielded a touch down. I havent looked at every single play, but thats a sign of having slow receivers who cant get away. But since we know Richards isnt slow, in this case it shows our deep pass was respected enough to have a safety always over top, instead of trusting their CB's on an Island with our receivers.
