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Old 08-04-2014, 12:34 AM   #79
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Re: Madden NFL 15 AFC/NFC North Player Ratings Released

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Originally Posted by Yeah...THAT Guy
From ESPN:

"2. Downfield passing
After Bridgewater’s pro day, questions emerged about his accuracy and velocity on downfield passes.

Bridgewater’s statistics in his final college season confirm the scouts' concerns. He completed 39.1 percent of his passes thrown 20 yards or farther downfield, the second-lowest percentage of the top 10 QB prospects ranked by Scouts Inc.

The issue is arm strength. As noted above, Bridgewater is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the nation on intermediate passes, but when he has to throw it farther downfield, the ball tends to hang in the air."

http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/po...dy-bridgewater

So that's probably why his arm strength and deep accuracy weren't great. Manziel doesn't have a great arm in terms of strength either, but they probably had to bump it up a bit so that he could make the deep throws because in Madden, a QB with low throw power tends to underthrow on deep balls even if they have high accuracy.
I would love to know why ESPNs stats don't match up with Rotoworlds stats.

http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/cf...back-conundrum
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