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[Fiz]

http://footballoutsiders.com/quick-reads/2011/week-1-quick-reads

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With just one season as a starting quarterback in college, Cam Newton was supposed to be a raw product coming out of the draft, an inexperienced talent who was ill-prepared for the NFL.

Whatever. In the Carolina Panthers’ 28-21 defeat to the Arizona Cardinals yesterday, Newton became just the sixth rookie in NFL history to throw for more than 400 yards in a single game.

Total yardage can be misleading, though. Nobody questioned Tom Brady’s election as MVP last season, even though he finished just eighth in passing yards. At Football Outsiders, we measure players by Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement (DYAR). We analyze every play of the NFL season and adjust it for down, distance, score, field position, and other factors. Players are rewarded not just for gaining yards, but also for picking up first downs – a six-yard gain on third-and-10 is worth barely any more than an incomplete pass. (We do not yet calculate Entertainment Value Above Replacement, but if we did, Newton’s air guitar solo in the end zone would probably also score highly.)

Newton finished with 150 total DYAR on Sunday. That’s an excellent figure, the second-highest of the day, but it’s not the best day a rookie ever had.

Here are the top 10 rookie quarterback performances since 1992, judging by total DYAR:

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Newton wasn’t just explosive against the Cardinals, he was efficient, too. Nearly half his dropbacks resulted in productive yardage, while many quarterbacks were successful less than 40 percent of the time. Newton threw for 17 first downs or touchdowns – only four quarterbacks had more (and two of them played Thursday night). Newton was productive on first (11-of-18 for 194 yards), second (9-of-11, 122 yards), and third (4-of-8, 106 yards) downs.

5th best QB of the week per FO

[b]MEANWHILE IN ATLANTA[/b]

Matt Ryan - 25

Wasn't Julio Jones supposed to bring the big play to Atlanta? Only four of Ryan's 14 first-half completions gained more than ten yards. He had nine ten-yard completions in the second half, but by then they were down by two touchdowns the entire way.

[Jase]

Matt Ryan, an overrated dink-n-dunker?

Say it ain't so.

[Shotgun]

and they play the dream team next week :smilielol5:

[jtnc]

Falcons are going into a slump. Where is dtan when you need him?

[Fiz]

remember that dude bankerfalconfan or something like that

he was such a bitch

[rayzor]

FBO is one of the sites i respect the most. always great analyses.

[Marguide]

Good read. Same article...top receiver...

Steve Smith.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Falcons are going into a slump. Where is dtan when you need him?

Wasn't he banned?

[CLTPanther]

Who is Cam?

[CPF4LIFE]

LOOLL!! They have been ripping Matt Ryan over on there board since sunday, somebody even started an Andrew Luck thread LOL. But Ryan has been a solid QB for ATL i think he will bounce back, but if they dont beat the Eagles sunday its not gonna look good for him.

[frash.exe]

has ryan improved at all since his rookie season

[Fiz]

has ryan improved at all since his rookie season

he can dumpoff like you wouldn't believe

[blackcatgrowl]

I'd say the Falcons have an outside chance at Luck.

Frontrunners are the Hawks and Colts.

Broncos have a good shot too. They just went 4 rounds with the Raiders and lost.

The Raiders... who commited over 131 yards in penalties... and had just 289 yards in total offense... just beat them...

BTW, you know who their new head coach is... right?

[CLTPanther]

It is what it is