Denard's 2011 B10 Passing Statline
Denard B10 Passing (8 Games)
| Completion% | Touchdowns | Interceptions | Yards | Yards/Attempt |
| 59.4% | 12 | 8 | 1432 | 8.68 |
Compare this to Denard's Overall Passing Season:
| Completion% | Touchdowns | Interceptions | Yards | Yards/Attempt |
| 56.1% | 18 | 14 | 2056 | 8.68 |
Brian mentioned a few times that Denard's B10 Season was much better than his overall season so I wanted to look at the numbers. He was able to retain his yards/attempt while completing a higher percentage of passes. The improvements he made are impressive considering it was against B10 defenses (Minnesota not withstanding) and speaks to his better understanding of the passing scheme. Denard improved immensely in 2010 and in 2011 had to learn a new system. Its reasonable to expect continuity and increased understanding, not to mention his hard-work we all know will happen. Throw in the rushing yards and Denard in 2012 could produce a year we have never seen before.
GO BLUE!
December 2nd, 2011 at 1:26 AM ^
Do these include the game from WMU? If not, they should since the NCAA revised their rule on games being discontinued before end of third quarter. MrVociferous had a post with the details. Plus Denard is going to have receiving targets that understand the scheme better. There was a missed catch almost every game due to receivers blowing routes or reads.
December 2nd, 2011 at 2:00 AM ^
Someone should probably make a thread to share that the WMU stats are going to count.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:24 AM ^
is in the B1G?
December 2nd, 2011 at 2:28 AM ^
Check out MGOBoard... Topic- Add an extra 80 yards and 2 tds for Fits. 140 yards for Denard too.-
Aaaahhhh, sarcasm
December 2nd, 2011 at 2:59 AM ^
I think these numbers show that Denard got more comfortable with his reads as the season progressed. He seemed to be much more efficient later in the season, and the numbers here back that up to some degree. Of course, there were some of the usual Denard headscratching moments. But overall, Borges and Denard were on more of the same page later in the season.
December 2nd, 2011 at 3:15 AM ^
I was curious to see how he stacked up against the other QB's in Big Ten play so I grabbed some stats from ESPN. It turns out Denard had the 3rd highest passer rating in conference play. Here is the table for comparison:
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:41 AM ^
I would say that this is not too shabby for a QB learning another scheme in his junior year, not mention someone that some were apparently willing to demote to WR. Looking at the top two, we didn't play Wisky anyway, and we beat Northwestern. I'll take this and go into the bowl and next year with much anticipation of another overall splendid performance.
December 2nd, 2011 at 7:08 AM ^
I guess I'm not too familiar with how passer ratings are calculated, but Cousins averaged 44.5 yards more per game, completed 2% more of his passes, and threw for 4 more TD's and had 4 less INT's. Do YPA really play that much into the passer rating in that having a 0.6 YPA higher average negates all of the other stat lines? Or am I missing something else in the calculations?
December 2nd, 2011 at 7:47 AM ^
My only guess would be sacks, which I am assuming happened more frequently to the statuesque Cousins than Denard, who, well, not so much.
December 3rd, 2011 at 3:38 AM ^
When I first calculated the passer rating I averaged all of the games together which I now believe is wrong. The reason Cousin's was lower than Denard's is because he had a game with a rating of 60. When I used the formula that justingoblue showed, it returned values of:
Russel Wilson: 179.2
Dan Persa: 155.8
Kirk Cousins: 149.6
Denard Robinson: 146.6
IIRC this means Denard will have the highest passer rating in B1G play of any QB's returning for next year.
December 3rd, 2011 at 4:11 AM ^
For fun I also calculated what the NFL passer rating would be. Here are the results:
Wilson: 129.2
Persa: 106.8
Cousins: 105.1
Robinson: 95.8
Vandenberg: 92.2
Miller: 89.4
Terbush: 89.3
Scheelhause: 86.6
Martinez: 85.5
Gray: 74.2
Mcgloin: 71.8
Roberson: 70.4
December 3rd, 2011 at 4:11 AM ^
For fun I also calculated what the NFL passer rating would be. Here are the results:
Wilson: 129.2
Persa: 106.8
Cousins: 105.1
Robinson: 95.8
Vandenberg: 92.2
Miller: 89.4
Terbush: 89.3
Scheelhause: 86.6
Martinez: 85.5
Gray: 74.2
Mcgloin: 71.8
Roberson: 70.4
December 2nd, 2011 at 7:55 AM ^
Denard had a regular successful season by making significant strides under a new system. I concur that given his off season work ethic he should come back in 2012 as a much improved - more capable QB. We'll get a glimpse of this new Denard on January 3rd at the Sugar Bowl. My only concern there is the D must play their best game yet. After New Orleans serve up the Tide!
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:04 AM ^
To show better play in conference games you should list his stats in non conference games.
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<br> 150 ypg, 6 tds, 6 int, ~50% comp %.
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<br>The improvement was huge. Take out the last quarter of the nd game and the stat line was terrible. Very excited to see what he can do next yr....and in
<br>the bowl game.
December 2nd, 2011 at 11:18 AM ^
It's also important to consider that our non conference games where also the first 4 games of the season, the improvement he made through coaching and experience is evident as the season went along. Denard now is much better than Denard then.
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:37 AM ^
who run screaming to mama every time we go down a TD need to grow a set. :)
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:05 AM ^
with a win over ohio
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:13 AM ^
that diary was surprisingly brief.
December 2nd, 2011 at 11:34 AM ^
You can really see the struggles early on in the new offense and the improvement over the course of the season. In Denard's final 3 games @ Illinois, against Neb and against OSU, which was arguably the toughest 3-game stretch of the season, his stats were:
| CMP | ATT | YARDS | CMP% | TD | INT | R YRDS | RTDS | |
| @ ILL | 6 | 10 | 92 | 60% | 0 | 1 | 30 | 2 |
| Neb | 11 | 18 | 180 | 61% | 2 | 1 | 83 | 2 |
| tOSU | 14 | 17 | 167 | 82% | 3 | 0 | 170 | 2 |
| Totals | 31 | 45 | 439 | 69% | 5 | 2 | 283 | 6 |
It's also important to keep in mind that Denard wasn't just getting used to Borges, but Borges was getting used to the things Denard does well and the things he does not so well.
December 2nd, 2011 at 3:02 PM ^
Weren't the two interceptions a hail mary and a batted screen? Ever since the bye week (before Purdue) his decisions have been pretty solid. Between Purdue, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and OSU he threw four picks. One was a hail mary, one was the obvious PI that bounced off Roundtree's shoulder, and one was the deflected pass against NEB. That's a hulluva improvement.
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:31 PM ^
True, although he did also throw one pass directly to an Illinois defender (who somehow dropped it).
December 2nd, 2011 at 12:24 PM ^
Did he really have the exact same YPA for both Big Ten and overall, or is one of those incorrect?
December 2nd, 2011 at 3:09 PM ^
Wrong thread. I'm dumb.
December 3rd, 2011 at 12:14 AM ^
I think one of his biggest improvements was ball security. Some people may disagree here, and that's okay. He was up and down at times throughout the year but I think most people can agree that most of the time when he dropped back to pass that they weren't nervous wrecks because they weren't quite sure who the ball was going to be thrown to. Most of his bad INT's were thrown off his back foot. That issue seemed to be addressed in practice because I can't recall too many of those down the stretch when he played his best football.
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