PFF metric ranks Teddy Bridgewater Top-10; Football Outsiders ranks Denver offense 6th

This week, Pro Football Focus released a metric called Passing Composite Score. This metric combines accuracy rate over expected (the accuracy of throws relative to the average quarterback), EPA/Play, and raw PFF grade to deliver this score.

Teddy Bridgewater ranked 9th on this list, posting a Passing Composite Score of 90.55, .73 higher than Tom Brady and 2.19 higher than Matthew Stafford, who each played pretty phenomenal games in week 1.

It did somewhat surprise me to see Teddy’s accuracy rate dip into the negatives, but looking at the other accuracy rates of other quarterbacks that’s a metric I’m probably the most skeptical about and wouldn’t really worry too much about it.

However, EPA/Play is an intriguing metric here, as this metric is roughly set by the expected value of each play. Teddy generated a pretty high EPA/Play (tied for 4th), which might not have been the expectation for many in Broncos Country coming into week 1.

RBSDM.com, another analytics site, ranked Teddy Bridgewater second in EPA/Play at .597, higher than Stafford and even Patrick Mahomes!

Football Outsiders’ own metrics seemed to back up Teddy’s high level of play as well. While he finished 11th in both DYAR (Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement) and DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average), he ranked first in QBR.

Football Outsiders also ranked the Denver offense highly. Despite some tough sledding against the Giants’ defense, FO ranked them 6th in Total Offensive DVOA, with a 5th-ranked rushing DVOA and the 13th-ranked passing DVOA.

Both the tape and metrics support that Teddy and the offense had a great day on Sunday. That should be a huge confidence booster for the fan base moving forward, as the Giants are one of the better defenses the Broncos will play this season.

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