The deeper we look into the numbers, the more evidence we find that point-guard style play resulted in passable quarterbacking and doing too much resulted in disaster.
Quarterback Sam Darnold, who the Panthers acquired in a trade that offseason, started out the season 3-0 with 888 yards, 8.3 yards per attempt, three touchdowns, one interception and only 34 yards lost to sacks. By PFF’s “turnover-worthy play” metric, he only committed three miscues in those three first weeks, making up 2.5% of total plays, 11th best in the league.
Add it all together, you have a total of 247 passing plays and only 2.8% TWP rate since the nightmarish 2021 stretch. Furthermore, he was not great with a clean pocket but when pressured his play was catastrophically bad. Darnold had the fourth worst pressure PFF grade and third worst QB rating. He was 24th out of 30 in average time to throw.But here’s where it gets interesting. Darnold only ranked 19th in the percentage of pressures allowed that were attributed by PFF to the quarterback. His O-line ranked 28th in pass blocking and receivers graded 32nd.
“When you've experienced what Sam's experienced, the positives, the highs, some of the lows that he's felt like have been real learning opportunities,” head coach O’Connell said. We haven’t seen McCarthy take first-team reps but he did look fairly comfortable operating the offense on Thursday. He will need to put some good days together before the pads come on and the intensity ramps up.
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