He inflates his stats with 2 yard TD passes and 15 passing attempts. Other than that Marshawn Lynch does all the work.
Today, he did either dump passes to WR/RBs who would pick up a lot of YAC, and would ONLY hit the open man. ( if you have a sweet supporting cast like he does, most times someone will be open)
He's slightly better than Mark Sanchez was in his rookie year when he too rode his great supporting cast to the AFC title game.
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lol I plussed but the man did way better than I thought he would this year. I have to give him credit.
Lynch SUCKED, and the team had to rely on Wilson for a chance.
He found a hole in the defense about 15 yards down the field behind the linebackers and hit it like 5 times. When you throw it to someone and they pick up YAC maybe it's cuz the QB noticed the running room... Or the guy was just wide open.
Either way without Wilson this would have been a major blowout 42-0 victory for Atlanta
prozach, look at the amount of passing attempts and yards from Wilson compared to RG3, Luck, and Tannehill. Tannehill has the weakest supporting cast but has more yards than RG3 AND Wilson. Wilson has the most tds but a whole hell of a lot less passing attempts with a TON of tds.
what does this tell us? Wilson rarely throws for big yards and much of the work load goes to Lynch with Wilson getting the easy TD
@qwertloup, Wilson has a great supporting cast, on every one of his big plays someone was wide open ( either blown coverage) or good routes.
Wilson also had a lot of time to get throws off for a majority of the plays. Put him on a team with less weapons, and you'd hear a whole hell of a lot less about him.
Holy wow, that might be the single most stupid argument I've heard. OK, if he gets more TD's with less attempts, that has NOTHING to do with yardage. That means he's a much more efficient passer, in fact. Secondly, yards are a horrible barometer for a QB's success. Luck had the most passing yards for a rookie. He also had way more turnovers to go along with it. Third, look at Seattle's supporting cast. Zach Miller (who was hurt), Golden Tate (meh), Sidney Rice (always injured), Doug Baldwin (disappeared this season). None of those guys are a real #1 receiver. Tannehill has Hartline. RG3 has Garcon. Luck has Reggie Wayne AND TY Hilton. Fourth, why does short yardage throws (which is inaccurate by the way. Rewatch this game and the Pats game) make a bad QB? This isn't Madden where you're trying to bomb it down the field every play.
Hartline was nothing before Tannehill got there, he had no deep threats and an inconsistent Reggie Bush to hand it off to.
Wilson only had to throw the ball 15-20 times a game most games because Lynch would set him up well.
The same credit Wilson is getting for using short passes, his running back and defense to win games is the same credit Sanchez used to get. On a team with less talent around him, he'd have a much tougher time.
Also look at Seattle's oline compared to Miami's or Indy's. Wilson was good at utilizing what was around him, but lets not pretend that hes the second coming of Marino or Montana. Hes a good qb with a TON of help, who would be exposed elsewhere.
Again, Seattle's receiving corp is lackluster compared to most teams in the league. There's a reason most mock draft analysts have them taking a wideout in the draft in April.
Compare Wilson from Week 1-6 to Wilson 7-now. There's a BIG difference. It was at around Week 7 that Carroll opened up the entire playbook for him. He was protecting his investment at first. After he realized he could trust him, he started throwing the ball much more frequently. Plus, there's the impact of the option run that was introduced midway through as well, which he executed near flawlessly.
I'm not gonna even address your third point because comparing Mark Sanchez to Wilson is just laughable.
Miami has Jake Long. The best tackle in football! How can you say that his is inferior when he has one of the best blindside protectors in the game? And I never said that Wilson is the savior of the NFL or anything like that, but he's been able to make do with a very subpar receiving corps and suspect linemen, especially on the right side.
Rice and Tate each had over 700 yards and 6 Td's. Lynch had almost 1600 yards and 11 tds.
Jake Long sucked this season and then got hurt. That's the main reason why he likely wont be back in Miami next season. The only elite lineman Miami had all season was Pouncey, but he didn't make All Pro like Max Unger did ( Pouncey got robbed of a pro bowl birth by his brother)
If Jake Long was the old Jake Long, Tannehill wouldn't have had to constantly throw on the run.
700 yards and 6 TD's isn't that good. But Wilson spread the ball around to most of his receivers, so that explains the balance. And yes, Lynch is good, but part of his success comes from the option running game. A system where the QB decides who gets the ball: him or the RB. He's a benefit, but he's not the key to Wilson's success
I wasn't aware of the Jake Long injury, so I can't speak about that too much, but if you've seen a Seahawks game, you'd see that 90% of the time Wilson is throwing outside of the pocket. Part of it is due to his natural scrambling ability, and part of it is because the pocket collapsed.
