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Golden Nuggets: Enjoying Victory Sunday with some playoff football

Related Topics: Brock Purdy, Jimmy Garoppolo

“That aggression can be a double-edged sword, but it forces defense to account for the deep ball and for throws deep and outside of the hashes....Jimmy Garoppolo’s preferred target areas were so damningly predictable that defenses essentially only had to account for passes in between the hashes and passes outside of them if they were 10 yards or fewer past the line of scrimmage....Despite being on par with Garoppolo around 6.8 air yards per target in the regular season, Purdy’s average targets on Saturday were 11.4 yards past the line of scrimmage. Garopplo’s average target distances were 6.3 yards, 6.