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According to Next Gen Stats, Cousins’ completion percentage was 11.6 percentage points higher than expected (68.4), which ranked fourth in Week 14. Cousins was asked after the game about his accuracy and drew a distinction between that term and completion percentage.
“Yeah, and I don’t know how much accuracy and completion percentage correlate. You could throw a really accurate pass in a tight window and have it incomplete, or you can throw to a guy who is wide open and really miss the mark, but he catches it because he’s wide open. And the thing you never want to be is ‘Check-down Charlie.’ You can have a great completion percentage, but if you’re taking the easy throw and not the one down the field, that’ll catch up to you too. So completion percentage, I think, what it is, it's a reflection of play calls; they’re getting people open. Offensive line is protecting you, so you’re not having to throw it away, and then players executing so that people are open and you have a place to go with the football.”
Cousins’ deep pass to Diggs was the 20th least-likely pass to be completed in Week 14 (31.6 percent), and his 13-yard throw on the sideline ranked 19th with a completion likelihood of 31.5 percent.
As for the Lions, third-string QB Blough completed 60 percent of his passes, which was 3.9 percentage points below what was projected. Blough’s numbers — traditional and Next Gen — were helped when Kenny Golladay caught a 10-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter. That pass on a fourth-and-5 had a 24.5 percent completion likelihood, which ranked seventh in the NFL in Week 14.