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Originally Posted by daquix
If thats the case, why do you feel Allen has a better completion %, yards, TD's, etc?
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Well, let's see.
Allen has been playing with the same HC and OC for awhile now. So he has the advantage of stability.
For a season Allen had the advantage of a better OL,
and this season he has the advantage of Diggs, who's been effective hiding some of Allen's inaccuracy and timing issues.
Meanwhile Baker has already been through three HCs, and I don't know how many OCs, so multiple systems.
Baker went through last season with a pretty bad OL. At least on passing snaps. And Freddie Kitchens' OCing gaffes every game.
Bottom line, Baker has dealt with a lot more instability in his organization, coaches, and with his team.
This season was a complete rebuild of the offense and learning a new system for Baker, so large swings between good games and bad ones were to be expected, and so his stats reflect that. Another thing that's been helping him indirectly is that Stefanski is using Kareem Hunt much better than Kitchens did last season. Hunt last season was an afterthought for Freddie and the offense. This season Stefanski is putting Hunt in good positions to succeed, and Baker is finding him for positive plays often. But just reviewing the stats, it's been an up-and-down year for Hunt as well, but recently he's been more involved in the passing game.
So, in short, I think Allen has benefited from both the stability he's enjoyed year-to-year, and the addition of Diggs. Neither of which Baker has had the luxury of to date. Especially from a coaching/system standpoint.
And none of this touches on relative strength of opponents, which I don't really want to get into here. For the sake of argument, we'll call it close enough.
Which is just another example of why total stats aren't the be-all and end-all of understanding what's really going on in a game or in a season or whatever.