I have yet to see a reason why I should not consider the kid inaccurate if he completed less than 50% of his passes. Do you have one for me? Or are you going to go with the old "because I said so" defense?
For the third, fourth or fifth time in less than two pages... because being forced to throw the ball away SIX TIMES in only 24 attempts doesn't make a quarterback "inaccurate." Are you going to address this point, or are you going to just keep posting "50%" ad nauseam?
Actually you are the one ignoring the facts. So you would be the one who is ignoring what is right in front of his eyes. You are letting the fact that he brings hope/potential and excusing any issues that he displayed tonight. This is why we keep crucifying our QB's at ND, we fall in love with them at the start and only see positives (while ignoring the negatives) and then when they don't live up to that perfection we throw them to the curb).
Right, except I never said any of that. I have never once deemed Andrew Hendrix the savior of Notre Dame football. In fact, if you wanted to trawl back through the Stanford game thread (I'm not sure why anyone would willingly do this), I actually said at halftime that Hendrix is not the elixir at this point in time. Keep putting words in my mouth and making generalizations, though.
Umm I like the kid as well but numbers and ratios are how we generally measure accuracy.
Tommy Rees is completing roughly 66% of his passes. Is he an accurate quarterback? Well, certain fans would argue (based solely on statistics) that he is; his performances show otherwise. I measure accuracy with my eyes, not with numbers. After all, numbers never tell the whole story. Andrew Hendrix made (accurate) throws tonight that 66-percent-passer Tommy "Accurate" Rees has never and will never make in his entire life.
So because you say he is accurate we are supposed to believe it but ignore the numbers?
No, you're supposed to take the black-and-white numbers and combine them with in-color reality of what happened on the field (multiple throw-aways, an overturned completion, one of the worst drops of the season, etc).
He was 0-5 in the first half. So 11-19, 1 TD, 1INT off of a tipped pass, and 1 rushing TD is pretty damn good for his first time in extended playing time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It seems to me that Hendrix completed 58% of his passes once he was handed the reigns to the offense (and that still includes the Eifert drop, the Toma review, and at least two throw-aways).
So inaccurate!
