Painters Qb Rating Was 115.8

[mightisright]

He had a great great great first half... but the fact of the matter is that he failed to make throws in the second half. He went 3 for 10 with 40 yards in the 2nd half, and that's unacceptable. The running game was bad too. He could have been better, and because of his bad play in the 2nd half, we had to rely on the defense, and that's the reason why lost, because we relied on the defense too much, and that's because the offense didn't do anything, and that leads back to the QB, and the QB is Curtis Painter

what I want to know is why was it only 10 attempts in the second half? yeah, let's rely on Donald brown to win the game for us. That's a good idea....

[Mouthfire]

For a young QB who was only starting his second game of his career he did just fine. He and the offense gave the defense a 24-7 lead and the defense could do nothing in the second half. Coyer made no adjustments in the game to combat their passing and running game. Our offense did not help much because we went into conservative mode of run, run, pass, and then punt. Heck one drives in the third was run, run, run, and the punt.

It was poor game management combined with horrible play calling in the second half that put our defense in a bad decision. The defense just made it worse by playing like crap from the beginning of the second half and Coyer did nothing to adjust to anything the Chiefs did.

This.

I have a hard time attributing this loss to Painter. Kravitz feels the same way, btw (the last time I'll ever agree with that guy). http://www.indystar....z-s-report-card

The bottom line is, we lost the game because:

1) The defensive secondary coudn't stop anyone.

2) Poor coaching that refused to adjust to anything. We had the game won in the first half in Painter's hands. So, the Colts take it out of his hands in the second half and run it all day. That's fine when we're up by 21 points, but late in the game when we're losing??? Yeah, run run pass punt, ad nauseum. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan....

Only 10 called passing plays for Painter says it all. Painter, for once, wasn't the problem here. Coaching and playcalling gets the blame.

Edited October 10, 2011 by Mouthfire

[hawkeyes]

yeah but he was 152.4 in the first half. it took a lot of bad play to bring it that far down

Nope, just 4 or 5 dropped passes no fault of his and BAM its down!

[bdogg]

Huh?

When the coaches tell him not to pass the ball, instead hand it off and run it up the middle regardless of the fact that it usually results in a loss of yards, that is pretty much telling him not to play.

[bayone]

a better way to judge QBs outdistances Painter from rest of AFC south QB's yesterday even more

By Paul Kuharsky ESPN

Indianapolis’ Curtis Painter had the best quarterbacking day among AFC South signal-callers on Sunday.

All four teams lost, but by both QBR and the traditional passer rating, Painter outdistanced the competition by a good margin.

But QBR, which includes more factors like game ending IT in endzone,Schaunb & late fumbles from the shotgun Gabbert

Comparing QBR with passer rating for AFC South quarterbacks from Sunday:

AFC South Quarterbacks in Week 5

Quarterback -- Total QBR -- Passer Rating

Curtis Painter -------- 70.2 (8th) -- 115.8

Matt Hasselbeck ---- 45.5 (18th) -- 72.0

Matt Schaub ---- ----- 27.1 (21st) -- 72.0

Blaine Gabbert ---- ---- 26.1 (22nd) -- 91.5

Passer rating maxes out at 158.3; QBR goes to 100.

For a game, QBR can be interpreted as a percentile, so a score of 80 means a QB’s performance was better than 80 percent of all QB games.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bbnG4