Watching last Saturday's game, nothing was more infuriating than watching our QB completely miss designed quick out passes to receivers. It felt like there were a dozen of them. Well, I went back and watched every pass, and I was wrong. I developed a quick rating system for his passes, judging the pass location and receiver setup to come up with a quick-n-dirty way to see which passes were solid and which were lousy. Here's an in-depth review of every pass Tommy threw last Saturday. The simple version is below, the pretty version is here.
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Ian
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| Tommy Armstrong Passing Review vs Michigan State (10/4/2014) | ||||||
| By Ian Badeer | ||||||
| Throw Status | Pass Location | Pass Result | Pass Rating | Receiver | Notes | Quarter |
| Scrambling | Low | Incomplete | Poor | Alonzo Moore | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 1st |
| Slightly High | Complete | Good | Andy Janovich | Beyond Scrimmage | 1st | |
| Scrambling | Slightly Outside | Complete | Fair | Jordan Westerkamp | Beyond Scrimmage | 1st |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Kenny Bell | Quick Out | 1st | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Kenny Bell | Quick Out | 1st | |
| Outside | Interception | Poor | Kenny Bell | Beyond Scrimmage | 1st | |
| Out of Bounds | Incomplete | Poor | Kenny Bell | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 2nd | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Kenny Bell | Check Down | 2nd | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Taariq Allen | Beyond Scrimmage | 2nd | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Taariq Allen | Quick Out | 2nd | |
| Slightly High | Incomplete | Good | Ameer Abdullah | Well covered, not a bad play | 2nd | |
| Scrambling | Low | Incomplete | Poor | Taariq Allen | Nearly intercepted, off CB's hands | 2nd |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Ameer Abdullah | Check Down | 2nd | |
| Outside | Incomplete | Poor | Jordan Westerkamp | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 2nd | |
| High and Outside | Complete | Fair | Taariq Allen | Receiver fell down to catch pass | 2nd | |
| High and Outside | Incomplete | Poor | Ameer Abdullah | Overthrown - Beyond Scrimmage | 2nd | |
| First Half Results | 6 of 16 passes were On Target | 9 of 16 with 1 INT | 6 - Poor (38%) | 3 of 5 - Kenny Bell | 3 of 10 throwing Beyond Scrimmage | |
| 37.5% On Target | 56.3% Competion | 2 - Fair (12%) | 3 of 4 - Taariq Allen | 6 of 6 throwing Behind Scrimmage | ||
| 4 - Good (25%) | 1 of 3 - Ameer Abdullah | 3 Uncatchable Passes | ||||
| 1 of 3 Scrambling | 1 Dropped INT | 4 - Excellent (25%) | 1 of 2 - Jordan Westerkamp | |||
| 8 of 13 Pocket | 1 of 1 - Andy Janovich | |||||
| 0 of 1 - Alonzo Moore | ||||||
| On Target | Complete | Good | De'Mornay Pierson-El | Quick Out | 3rd | |
| Behind | Incomplete | Poor | Jordan Westerkamp | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| Low | Incomplete | Fair | Taariq Allen | Underthrown - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Jordan Westerkamp | Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| Slightly Outside | Incomplete | Fair | Alonzo Moore | Quick Out | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Jordan Westerkamp | In Stride - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| Outside | Incomplete | Poor | Alonzo Moore | Quick Out | 3rd | |
| On Target | Incomplete | Good | Sam Cotton | Pass Dropped - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Jordan Westerkamp | Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| Scrambling | Out of Bounds | Incomplete | Good | Sam Cotton | Threw the ball away to avoid sack | 3rd |
| Behind | Incomplete | Poor | Ameer Abdullah | Nearly intercepted, off CB's hands | 3rd | |
| On Target | Incomplete | Good | Jordan Westerkamp | Pass Dropped - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Ameer Abdullah | Check Down | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Jordan Westerkamp | Under Pressure - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| Outside | Incomplete | Poor | Jordan Westerkamp | Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| High | Incomplete | Fair | De'Mornay Pierson-El | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 3rd | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Jordan Westerkamp | In Stride - Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| Low | Incomplete | Fair | Alonzo Moore | Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Jordan Westerkamp | Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| Low | Incomplete | Poor | Alonzo Moore | Uncatchable - Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| Outside | Incomplete | Fair | Taariq Allen | Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| On Target | Complete | Fair | Jordan Westerkamp | Nearly intercepted, off CB's hands | 4th | |
| On Target | Complete | Good | Lane Hovey | Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| High | Incomplete | Poor | Ameer Abdullah | Check Down | 4th | |
| On Target | Complete | Excellent | Alonzo Moore | Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| On Target | Incomplete | Excellent | Alonzo Moore | Pass Dropped - Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| Outside | Intercepted | Fair | Lane Hovey | Poor Routes - Beyond Scrimmage | 4th | |
| Second Half Results | 14 of 27 passes were On Target | 11 of 27 with 1 INT | 6 - Poor (22%) | 7 of 10 - Jordan Westerkamp | 9 of 22 throwing Beyond Scrimmage | |
| 51.8% On Target | 40.7% Completion | 7 - Fair (26%) | 1 of 6 - Alonzo Moore | 2 of 5 throwing Behind Scrimmage | ||
| 8 - Good (30%) | 1 of 3 - Ameer Abdullah | 3 Uncatchable Passes | ||||
| 0 of 1 Scrambling | 2 Dropped INTs | 6 - Excellent (22%) | 1 of 2 - De'Mornay Pierson-El/Lane Hovey | 3 Passes Dropped | ||
| 11 of 26 Pocket | 1 Dropped TD | 0 of 2 - Taariq Allen/Sam Cotton | ||||
| Final Game Results | 20 of 43 passes were On Target | 20 of 43 with 2 INTs | 12 - Poor (28%) | 8 of 12 - Jordan Westerkamp | 12 of 32 throwing Beyond Scrimmage (37.5%) | |
| 46.5% On Target | 46.5% Completion | 9 - Fair (21%) | 1 of 7 - Alonzo Moore | 8 of 11 throwing Behind Scrimmage (72.7%) | ||
| 12 - Good (28%) | 3 of 6 - Taariq Allen | 6 Uncatchable Passes | ||||
| 1 of 4 Scrambling | 3 Dropped INTs | 10 - Excellent (23%) | 2 of 6 - Ameer Abdullah | 3 Passes Dropped | ||
| 19 of 39 Pocket | 1 Dropped TD | 3 of 5 - Kenny Bell | ||||
| 3 of 7 - Others | ||||||
| Conclusions | Tommy had signifcant issues targeting Alonzo Moore | |||||
| Tommy only put up a good, catchable pass 51% of the time he was throwing. | ||||||
| Nearly 30% of Tommy's passes were poor throws. | ||||||
| Tommy could have finished with 5 interceptions. | ||||||
| If the dropped passes were caught, the completion % would have been 53.5% | ||||||
| If Alonzo Moore made the catch in the endzone, Tommy's final line would've been 21/42, 310 Yds, 1 TD and 1 INT | ||||||
| Michigan State | Completion % | Yards | TD | Int | ||
| Pass Defense (5 Gms) | 50.3% | 225 | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||
| Tommy's #'s | 46.5% | 273 | 0 | 2 | ||
