Iowalaw's Post Game Analysis: Maryland

[DMLadyhawk]

Everyone is looking for a Brees or Rodgers sure, but there are only ever a handful of guys alive that fit that bill. What do the other 28 teams do for a QB? Just forfeit the season because you don't have a HOF QB? The majority of GM's in the NFL will take the game manager over some project with gunslinger potential because it's a safer bet. They will draft projects with lower round picks and stash them until they know or not if the guy has that special thing. A game manager QB with gunslinger potential is relative gold. I can't even think of a QB drafted in rounds 1 or 2 from the last few years who was anything other than that.

Mahomes

 

[Adam]

Mahomes

KC fan here. Mahomes is the most pleasant surprise. Mahomes appears to be a true gunslinger. His game management skills will he put to the test in the playoffs. I am holding my breath, but also optimistic.

 

[HawkeyeDenis]

He is certainly in the discussion on the best Iowa QB since Chuck Long. I think Stanley has a lot of help.

 

[PCHawk]

While blindly touting Stanley as the best thing since sliced bread, even after an objectively bad performance, is cute, it's not accurate. It's easy to blame the wind for him hitting on less than 50% of his passes, but that would only make sense if this game was a statistical anomaly. It was not. Stanley's super man performance against Indiana was the statistical abnormality, while his Maryland performance was simply, as Jon Miller likes to say, a regression to the mean.

1. NIU game (played in perfect conditions) 11/23 for 108 yrds, 1 td 1 int
2. ISU game (played in perfect conditions) 16/28 for 166 yrds, 0 td
3. Maryland (played in windy conditions) 11/22 for 88 yrds, 1 td 1 int

He laid eggs in 1/2 of this season's games so far. He played really well in half of this season's games as well. That's not "bias" or an "agenda," and it's not the "wind." It's simply stats. Given his body of work, things tend to regress to the mean. NIU, ISU, and Maryland wins were each attributed to our top 5 national defense. Each game would have been won regardless of whether Stanley, Petras or Mansell playing QB.

Here's to hoping Stanley plays above the mean in the games that need it, and saves is "off" performances for the Nebraskas of the world.

Those are the first two games of the season and the last game where the wind was terrible. Your post would make more sense if the two bad games he played were sprinkled in randomly with his good games. The way it is, it just looks like he got off to a bad start and then started killing it. 2 bad games, then 4 good games, then a completely irrelevant game.

 

[PCHawk]

Game manager is code for not very good.

 

[Adam]

Game manager is code for not very good.

But it isn't.

 

[PCHawk]

But it isn't.

Well it is for everyone but you.

 

[Robowe]

Game manager is code for not very good.

See Dilfer, Trent.

 

[IowaLawWasRight]

No offense to Stanley, but a game manager he is NOT. A game manager's role is not to get in the way of a great team's success. Simply putting the ball in his play maker's hands and let them work their magic. Do the little things right, and make no major mistakes. A game manager does NOT throw boneheaded interception after boneheaded interception. He does not take delay of game penalties every game because he is completely unaware of his surroundings. He does not get completely flustered the first time he takes a hit.

See Dilfer, Trent.

 

[HawkPrdatr40]

No offense to Stanley, but a game manager he is NOT. A game manager's role is not to get in the way of a great team's success. Simply putting the ball in his play maker's hands and let them work their magic. Do the little things right, and make no major mistakes. A game manager does NOT throw boneheaded interception after boneheaded interception. He does not take delay of game penalties every game because he is completely unaware of his surroundings. He does not get completely flustered the first time he takes a hit.

Correct!!! Iowa probably also needs to dumb it down for NS and eliminate whatever it is he does at the line as well and just get up and snap the ball.