Goff’s excellent night and Daniels’ quick start contributed to the record finishing pace

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Jared Goff and Jayden Daniels in recent weeks they have achieved record results in terms of high passing efficiency.

They’re not alone, as passing has never been easier in the NFL, in part because throws are getting shorter.

Goff completed all 18 of his passes on Monday night, he added to Detroit’s 42-29 victory over Seattle, breaking the record for most passes in a game without an incompletion, set in 2005 when Kurt Warner threw 10 passes against Houston before leaving the game in the second quarter with a knee injury .

According to Zebra Technologies’ NextGen statistics, the probability that the QB would complete all of these passes, based on the probability of completing each attempt, was 0.69%, or 1 in 145.

The performance came a week after Goff completed all 12 passes in the first half against Arizona, making him the first starting QB since at least 1991 to have perfect numbers in back-to-back first halves. The only other player to do so during that span was receiver Mohamed Sanu, who was 1-for-1 in Weeks 2 and 3 of the 2014 season for Cincinnati.

According to Sportradar, the only other pass the Lions gave up was a try from Amon-Ra St. Brown to Goff – marking the eighth time in NFL history that a player threw a TD pass and caught a TD pass from the same teammate, according to Sportradar. It has only happened three times since 1930: Blake Bortles and Marquise Lee of Jacksonville in 2016, Walter Payton and Jim McMahon of Chicago in 1985, and Gary Danielson and James Jones of Detroit in 1984.

If Goff and St. Brown will do it again, matching the feat of Eddie Kawa and Benny Boynton, who did it twice in three weeks for the Buffalo Bisons in 1924.

Impressive run by Daniels he has been playing longer as he has completed 82.1% of his passes in the first four games of his rookie season and has had more scoring tackles (23) than the number of incomplete passes (19) he has completed. Daniels has the best four-game completion percentage of any QB since 1950 with at least 100 attempts, surpassing Peyton Manning’s mark of 81.8% in 2008.

This season, six other quarterbacks have completed at least 70% of his passes, which is the only 15 times in NFL history that a QB has had at least 350 attempts in a full season.

Overall, this season’s 66.1% completion rate is at an all-time high, surpassing the previous record of 65.2% in 2020, thanks in part to an average pass completed 7.4m downfield – the lowest mark since the establishment of the first air shipyards tracked by Sportradar in 2006.

Mahomes at 100

Patrick Mahomes’ fast pace is unmatched by any QB in history.

On Sunday, Mahomes made his 100th start Kansas City won 17-10 over the Los Angeles Chargers, extending his own production records to start his career.

Mahomes won for the 78th time, threw his 225th career touchdown pass and increased his total yardage to 29,328 yards, the best in all three categories for any player in his first 100 starts.

The previous records for these numbers dating back to the NFL’s first starting quarterback in 1950 were 76 wins for Tom Brady and Roger Staubach, 222 TD passes for Aaron Rodgers and 27,980 yards for Matthew Stafford.

Mahomes has already joined Brett Favre as the only QBs to win two MVPs at age 27 or younger, with Joe Montana in second place Super Bowl MVP with three — two to go for Brady.

Mahomes has come this far because of his incredible comeback talent. Kansas City overcame a 10-0 hole to beat the Chargers on Sunday, giving Mahomes his 18th career regular-season or playoff victory after a double-digit lead. In these scenarios, Mahomes is 18-14 (.563), while every other QB in the Super Bowl era has a winning percentage of .149, with no one else having a winning record in at least 10 attempts.

Flipping Sam

A change of scenery helped Sam Darnold transform from one of the NFL’s least effective quarterbacks to one of its best in the first month of this season.

The New York Jets’ third overall pick in 2018 had the worst passer rating of the 39 quarterbacks with at least 1,000 attempts over his first six seasons. He spent three years primarily as a starter in New York, then had two seasons in Carolina, where he started 15 times, and then spent one season primarily as a backup in San Francisco.

Darnold then signed a one-year, $10 million contract with Minnesota that looks like a bargain. Darnold leads the NFL with a passer rating of 118.9 and 11 TD passes undefeated Vikings.

This is only the eighth time in NFL history that a player has thrown at least two TD passes and had at least 105 passing yards in each of the first four games of a season. Five of the previous seven times, a player finished the season as MVP, with Aaron Rodgers winning in 2011 and 2020, Tom Brady in 2007, Peyton Manning in 2013 and Matt Ryan in 2016. Brady also did it in 2015. and Russell Wilson in 2020 without winning MVP.

New yuck, new yuck

The New York Giants and Jets drew more than 160,000 fans to their home games in Week 4, and neither team scored a touchdown for the hosts.

The Giants kicked five field goals in one minute Lost 20-15 to Dallas on Thursday night, and then the Jets made three field goals in one minute Lost 10-9 against Denver on Sunday.

It was the 57th time the Giants and Jets returned home in the same week since the Jets moved to the Meadowlands in 1984. It was the only time in those weeks that neither New York team scored a touchdown, with the previous low being one TD in Week 3 of the 2022 season, when the Giants scored one TD in a 23-16 loss to the Cowboys and the Jets kicked four field goals in a 27-12 loss to Cincinnati.

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