I'm surprised it's 40% overall (especially since 2001).
Google says in the past couple seasons, any given drive results in a touchdown ~22% of the time and points 37% of the time... and the TD stat only rises to 30% if the ball is at/inside the 50 to begin the drive.
The playoffs have a far higher percentage of clutch QBs and good offenses, of course, but it's still only 60 seconds... plus the best not-Mahomes QBs are only 50% means the rest of the league is probably close to that 40% number (as opposed to Brady, Brees, Mahomes, etc; all being 75% and then the rest of the league being trash). And it's not like there are enough great QBs to fill in a playoff bracket, and many of them play each other in the early rounds.
Maybe out of those 125, 90 only needed a FG.
:-)
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Originally Posted by In58men:
Yeah. Mahomes, like other some other great ones, is lazy. Hard for him to get up for the Raiders on Xmas. Or some regular season game. He is smart enough to not sacrifice his body in these games as he should. He knows his value but when the game is on the line and the lights are shining bright he takes up not only his physical ability but his mental acumen as well.
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