49ers QB Jimmy G: Starting and Ending 2019 in Similar Fashion
The 2019 NFL season started and ended in remarkably similar ways for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
In his first five passing attempts of the 49ers' first preseason game, he had five incompletions and one interception. The 49ers were playing the Denver Broncos, an AFC West team.
In his final five passing attempts of the 49ers' final postseason game, he had five incompletions and one interception. The five incompletions included this infamous overthrow to Emmanuel Sanders. The 49ers were playing the Kansas City Chiefs, an AFC West team.
During the 2019 NFL regular season, Garoppolo completed 69.1% of his passes
(the fourth-best completion percentage in the NFL). With that percentage, the probability of five consecutive incompletions is (1-0.691)^5 = 0.00028 (assuming that pass attempts are independent of each other). The five
consecutive incompletions at the start and end of the season were his only strings of five consecutive incompletions during the 2019 season.