Every week, win or lose, we have taken a closer look at the premium stats from Pro Football Focus and identified three stats to know from the previous Cincinnati Bengals game.

This week, we're going to focus on all the ways that Jake Browning's breakout performance came to life. We'll also compare them to what they were last week when the Bengals failed to get him going against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Let's see what the advanced stats had to say about Browning's incredible Week 13 performance against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Time To Throw

• Week 12: 2.70 seconds
• Week 13: 2.30 seconds

Browning got the ball out much quicker against the Jaguars in pretty much every trackable situation. On 28 attempts where he was kept clean, the ball got out on average of 2.12 seconds, 0.09 seconds faster than last week. The biggest difference came when he was under pressure. The ball got out at 2.78 seconds on average for his nine throws under duress. His average last week was all the way up to 3.82 seconds. That's a testament to having quick options in those circumstances, and Browning pulling the trigger.

Play Action & Screen Usage 

• Week 12: 25%
• Week 13: 45%

What are the easy plays for quarterbacks? The plays that involve the ball getting out immediately without the quarterback having to process after the snap, and with simplified reads while the quarterback is on the move. The Bengals spammed the play sheet this with quick wideout screens to Ja'Marr Chase, and had more play action opportunities for Browning. The fewer standard drop backs for him, the fewer chances he has to hold the ball and take unnecessary sacks. Keep the field easy for him to diagnose once the play is live. 

True Pass Sets

• Week 12: 12 (36.4% of pass blocking snaps)
• Week 13: 11 (25.6% of pass blocking snaps)

Compared to last week, the Bengals' offensive line spent a smaller percentage of the game pass protecting for standard drop backs, which means Browning ended up taking fewer standard drop backs. True Pass Sets "excludes plays with less than 4 rushers, play action, screens, short drop backs and time-to-throws under 2 seconds," per PFF. For reference, the healthy Joe Burrow offense (Weeks 5-10) had the o-line protect 46.6% of the time with true pass sets. Not only does this make life easier for the quarterback, it helps the line neutralize tougher pass-rushing units.

Empty Sets

• Week 12: 12 
• Week 13: 0

A goose egg! Just as it should be. Trusting a backup to handle empty protection and quickly distribute the ball based off where the unblocked pressure comes from is madness. That's why you draft a guy like Joe Burrow who can handle that with incredible efficiency, and even he runs into trouble from time to time. Browning should never be in empty unless it's for a bubble screen. This was the most obvious change from the Burrow offense to the Browning offense. Good on the play-calling committee. (H/T to PFF's Andrew Russell for this one.) 

Average Depth of Target

• Week 12: 5.6 (8.7 yards per attempt)
• Week 13: 4.1 (9.6 yards per attempt)

Doing less and getting more is the ultimate recipe for helping out your quarterback. Browning pushed the ball down the field at times when needed, but the high rate of screens kept this figure down where it belongs. The 76-yard touchdown to Ja'Marr Chase certainly didn't hurt his Y/A.  

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Lessons were learned in Cincinnati, and a near-perfect game plan came out of it.