Pressure by Pats, deep ball to Calvin with nobody open against Cards, Jordan Thompson hands, Fuller hands against GB, Fulller slip against Falcons, Griimes play and deep ball to Shields in one on one weren't on him.
Deep ball to Calvin against Carolina that somehow got popped up in the air wasn't on him either.
So really 4 his fault. Not 5. My bad.
Pick to Kennan Lewis, pick Gilmore against Buffal, 2 against Bears. 2 of those games were Lions wins with good Stafford play in second half.
So on a 1st and ten, down by 6, the correct read is a deep ball, that is severely under thrown, to a double covered WR? How in the world can you not put blame on the QB for that one? (Carolina)
Grimes play, while an athletic play, still ignores the fact he missed the wide open WR in the middle of the field for a walk in TD. Ignores the fact he still had 10+ yards of field to work with, again another underthrow. Usually an incomplete pass, but grimes did make a great play. However poor read and poor throw makes it on Stafford. If we ignore great plays, that takes away many yards and a good number of TDs away from stafford. So if you are going to excuse great plays one way, you have to excuse them when he benefits from them too.
Cardinals, while a bit more understandable based on down and distance, still an absolutely horrible overthrow. You can't miss a WR by that much. Blame is squarely on #9 for the INT, but this one didn't hurt as much as the others.
Jordan Thompson, when throwing to a 4th stringer, you need to be more accurate than that. No reason for that throw to be anywhere but between the numbers. Good throw it goes as an incomplete pass because of a drop. Bad throw makes it an INT. While he should of caught it, stafford gets 1/2 the blame. #1 QBs need to make it easier on #4 TEs.
Same with fuller tip INT. The one where Fuller falls is tough break and not on Stafford.
I assume you mean the the interception to House not Shields. That was a poor throw, simply an overthrow. Turned out better than an incompletition, but still on Staff.
Really the only one he had no fault in was when Fuller slipped.
However Stafford in 2014 interceptions were not his biggest issue. While he did have a few brutal ones, overall 12 is probably acceptable. Where he hurt us is the missed opportunity plays. There were too many instances where he missed the open guy or didn't see the wide open guy. 22 Tds in that many attempts is not good enough. He gained more yardage from YAC than almost any other QB in the league. Majority of his yards came from others making plays after he made a short throw. Lions need more to take the next step.
I understand trying to make Stafford get out of the teams way and not losing it for them. Having a top 5 defense last year that was good enough to get to the playoffs. However the goal should be superbowl, for that to happen he needs to take a huge step. No more excuse after excuse. We can't be paying him 22 million in 2016 to do the job of a game manger. He needs top 10 stats no matter what happens in 2015 or it is time to draft a young guy for 2016.
