Week 6 Passing Stats: The Bills Are Above Average At Passing… For 1941

by Chase Stuart on October 16, 2018

The Buffalo Bills have the worst passing attack in the NFL, and it is not particularly close. The NFL is averaging 6.5 Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt, the 30th-best passing offense is averaging 4.5 ANY/A, and the 31st-best passing attack is averaging 4.1 ANY/A. The Bills? They are averaging 2.0 ANY/A and have reached the cellar by being bad at every facet of the passing game. The Bills rank last in the league in completion percentage, passing yards, passing touchdowns, passing touchdown rate, and yards per attempt. The Bills also have the worst sack rate *and* the worst interception rate in the NFL.

In 1941, the league average completion percentage was 44.3%; the 2018 Bills are completing passes at a 50.6% clip.

In 1941, the average NFL team gained 122 passing yards per game; the 2018 Bills are gaining 123 passing yards per game.

In 1941, NFL teams threw an interception on 10% of passes; the 2018 Bills have thrown an interception on 7.3% of passes.

But if you pick any year more recent than 1941, you might think Buffalo was a below-average passing team. The league average completion percentage has been over 50.6% in every season since 1961. When it comes to interceptions, 1975 and 1971 are the only post-merger seasons where the league average more than 1.5 interceptions per game. And in passing yards per game? It’s been higher than Buffalo’s current average in every season beginning in 1942.

If you want to use yards per attempt, you have to go back to 1935 to find a season where Buffalo’s current 5.39 Y/A average would be above average. The last time the league average ANY/A was below 2.0 was in 1938, and the NFL has never had a NY/A average as poor as the 2018 Bills.

So yes, Buffalo’s passing performance this season has been otherworldly. And it got worse in week 6, as Josh Allen and Nathan Peterman combined to gain just 129 passing yards on 31 dropbacks, while throwing two interceptions. And with 90 seconds left in the 4th quarter of a tie game, Peterson threw a brutal pick six that swung the game to Houston.

Below are the week 6 passing stats, with some familiar names at the top.

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Rk	Quarterback	Tm	Opp	Result	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Sk	Yds	ANY/A	VALUE
1	Matt Ryan	ATL	TAM	W 34-29	41	354	3	0	1	8	9.67	136
2	Aaron Rodgers	GNB	SFO	W 33-30	46	425	2	0	3	20	9.08	130
3	Patrick Mahomes	KAN	NWE	L 40-43	36	352	4	2	0	0	9.5	110
4	Tom Brady	NWE	KAN	W 43-40	35	340	1	0	2	13	9.38	109
5	Mitch Trubisky	CHI	MIA	L 28-31	31	316	3	1	2	13	9.64	106
6	Jameis Winston	TAM	ATL	L 29-34	41	395	4	2	2	6	8.81	102
7	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	CIN	W 28-21	46	369	1	0	0	0	8.46	93
8	Carson Wentz	PHI	NYG	W 34-13	36	278	3	0	1	7	8.95	93
9	Russell Wilson	SEA	OAK	W 27-3	23	222	3	1	1	8	9.54	75
10	Brock Osweiler	MIA	CHI	W 31-28	44	380	3	2	0	0	7.95	67
11	C.J. Beathard	SFO	GNB	L 30-33	23	245	2	1	2	18	8.88	61
12	Sam Darnold	NYJ	IND	W 42-34	30	280	2	1	2	13	8.19	56
13	Philip Rivers	LAC	CLE	W 38-14	20	207	2	1	1	12	9.05	55
14	Dak Prescott	DAL	JAX	W 40-7	27	183	2	0	3	11	7.07	19
15	Case Keenum	DEN	LAR	L 20-23	41	322	2	1	2	25	6.79	15
16	Geno Smith	LAC	CLE	W 38-14	1	8	0	0	0	0	8	2
17	Cam Newton	CAR	WAS	L 17-23	40	275	2	1	1	6	6.44	0
18	DeAndre Hopkins	HOU	BUF	W 20-13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-6
19	Joe Flacco	BAL	TEN	W 21-0	37	238	1	1	0	0	5.76	-25
20	Andrew Luck	IND	NYJ	L 34-42	43	301	4	3	0	0	5.72	-31
21	Andy Dalton	CIN	PIT	L 21-28	42	229	2	0	3	16	5.62	-37
22	Kirk Cousins	MIN	ARI	W 27-17	34	233	1	1	4	17	5.03	-54
23	Josh Allen	BUF	HOU	L 13-20	17	84	0	0	2	16	3.58	-54
24	Alex Smith	WAS	CAR	W 23-17	36	163	2	0	3	7	5.03	-55
25	Josh Rosen	ARI	MIN	L 17-27	31	240	0	1	4	32	4.66	-62
26	Blake Bortles	JAX	DAL	L 7-40	26	149	1	1	3	10	3.93	-73
27	Jared Goff	LAR	DEN	W 23-20	28	201	0	1	5	27	3.91	-83
28	Nathan Peterman	BUF	HOU	L 13-20	12	61	1	2	0	0	-0.75	-86
29	Eli Manning	NYG	PHI	L 13-34	43	281	0	1	4	27	4.45	-94
30	Marcus Mariota	TEN	BAL	L 0-21	15	117	0	0	11	66	1.96	-116
31	Derek Carr	OAK	SEA	L 3-27	31	142	0	0	6	36	2.86	-132
32	Deshaun Watson	HOU	BUF	W 20-13	25	177	1	2	7	35	2.25	-134
33	Baker Mayfield	CLE	LAC	L 14-38	46	238	1	2	5	24	2.82	-184
	Total				1028	7805	53	28	80	473	6.44	0

And in addition, here are the passing stats to date. I am using 15 dropbacks multiplied by the number of weeks in the season to determine whether a passer has qualified. The table has 58 rows, but for ease of reading, I have defaulted to only showing the top 10.

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Rk	Quarterback	Tm	Age	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Sk	Yds	ANY/A	Value
1	Patrick Mahomes	KAN	23	212	1865	18	4	6	26	9.26	606
2	Jared Goff	LAR	24	194	1928	12	5	11	68	9.15	546
3	Drew Brees	NOR	39	190	1658	11	0	8	64	9.16	531
4	Philip Rivers	LAC	37	194	1702	15	3	7	52	9.03	512
5	Matt Ryan	ATL	33	224	1955	14	2	17	108	8.45	475
6	Ryan Fitzpatrick	TAM	36	129	1356	11	5	7	37	9.66	433
7	Aaron Rodgers	GNB	35	254	1997	12	1	19	127	7.56	296
8	Ben Roethlisberger	PIT	36	261	2033	12	6	9	59	7.2	194
9	Kirk Cousins	MIN	30	260	1921	12	3	18	98	6.94	126
10	Carson Wentz	PHI	26	158	1192	8	1	13	96	7.08	103

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