We’ve got a lot of time to kill before we see our Phins play again, so I figured this could be a good opportunity for us to do what fans do best: nitpick little things about the team that drive you crazy.
I’ll start with an example: Tyreek running backwards to try to find an angle when he catches a ball at or near the chains. Just fall forward for the first down my dude! Not every play has to be an opportunity for you to show how elusive you are, especially when you usually get tackled almost immediately anyway.
I decided to look at some stats because it felt like Tua has been underperforming during primetime games going back to last season, and the simple stats have shown he has underperformed a lot worse than I thought.
These are Tua’s averages in the 8 non primetime games he fully played in last year:
311 yards
2.5 TD 0.5 INT
69.8% completion
117.3 passer rating
Stats in the 4 non primetime games:
237.5 yards
1.25 TD 0.75 INT
54.2% completion
85.7 passer rating
This year’s stats in the 6 non primetime games:
325.2 yards
2.7 TD 0.83 INT
70.3% completion
114.3 passer rating
3 primetime games:
219.3 yards
1 TD 0.66 INT
66.7% completion
88.9 passer rating
Now those stats aren’t solely on Tua as we tend to deal with more drops, more penalties, and worse playcalls during primetime too. It’s just annoying that almost every time when we have a national audience, we put forth our worst product on offense.
The best performance was against the Bills in the snow game where we put up 28 in a loss, but even then Tua’s performance was below his average statistically (234 yards 2 TD 0 INT 56.7% completion, 104 passer rating.)
It’d be nice to finally see a “WOW” performance from Tua and this offense during primetime instead of us shrinking.