I'mWithDan
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Ok so I just took a quick look on stathead.com to build some scenarios to get a sense of how we have been in 4th quarter drives where we need to score. I don't have a subscription with them so the teams that have logged the ten most number of drives that fit the search's criteria do not show up for me. I was able to get data for the Browns on a search that queries all drives beginning with six minutes or left in the 4th quarter, while trailing by 4 to 8 points. Basically, a situation late in the game when we need to score a touchdown.
Baker has converted 3 out of 8 drives (37.5%) fitting this description for touchdowns. FYI, the search actually returns 5 out of 10 successful drives, but I went back and checked the first couple games of 2018 when Tyrod Taylor was playing and found out that TyGod was 2 for 2 in that span. The league average for converting such drives was 27.7%. If anyone has a subscription to Stathead, feel free to tinker with the filter and dig stuff up that I don't have access to.
With such small sample sizes, it's hard to really quantify how clutch a QB is. With Baker, he's delivered in the past, but perhaps it gets wiped out of our memories because the defense goes on to give up a GW drive. I specifically remember Baker's first home game against Baltimore when he hit that sweet pass to Willies to put us in position to win in overtime. Since it was overtime, it doesn't count toward the search I just referenced earlier, but let's not act like Baker shits the bed at crunch time any more than the rest of the league.
That tool seems very broken to me.
I searched Browns, 4 min or less in games of 8 points or less and it gave me 1 drive from the Tennessee game where we kneeled.
It somehow doesn’t even pick up 2 that happened this year (KC, LAC).
Without a subscription, not sure how reliable those queries are.