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Now that the NFL has officially kicked off the 2011 season with the first week of pre-season games, let’s look at a few numbers of interest.
It goes without saying that a quarterback who has a good game will have a positive affect on his team’s success. One of the ways to gauge a QB’s success in a game is the Passer Rating. If we establish a rating of 100 or better as a QB who has had a real good game, how well have some of the teams of the game’s best signal-callers (past and present) done in these games? First, let’s look at some of today’s quarterbacks. (Minimum of 15 regular season games with a Passer Rating of 100 or more)
Active Quarterback W-L Pct.
Jay Cutler 21-0 1.000
Matt Ryan 16-0 1.000
Tom Brady 60-3 .952
Donovan McNabb 43-4 .915
Ben Roethlisberger 38-4 .905
Joe Flacco 17-2 .895
Peyton Manning 73-9 .890
Drew Brees 44-9 .830
Tony Romo 28-6 .824
David Garrard 22-6 .786
Matt Hasselbeck 29-8 .784
Aaron Rodgers 20-7 .741
Matt Schaub 17-7 .708
Michael Vick 17-7 .708
Matt Cassel 12-5 .706
Eli Manning 19-8 .704
Jason Campbell 11-5 .688
WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG FOR A TRIVIA QUESTION: What is considered a “perfect passer rating?” 150, 158.3, 140, or 145.5? Answer at end of blog.
How do these active QBs above compare to some of the NFL’s best? Here’s how some of the retired QB’s fared in regular season games when they had a 100 or higher Passer Rating in a game (the list includes those QBs who passed for 250 or more TDs in their career)
Retired Quarterbacks W-L Pct.
Johnny Unitas 37-0 1.000
Drew Bledsoe 38-2 .950
Brett Favre 99-9 .917
Joe Montana 64-6 .914
Warren Moon 40-4 .909
John Elway 54-10 .844
Dan Fouts 35-7 .833
Fran Tarkenton 62-15 .805
Dave Krieg 46-12 .793
Dan Marino 53-14 .791
Sonny Jurgensen 31-13-3 .691
Vinny Testaverde 32-17 .653
TRIVIA ANSWER: A perfect passer rating is considered to be 158.3.
Did you know? Only three quarterbacks have passed for three or more “perfect games” in their career… Peyton Manning (4), Ben Roethlisberger (3) and Kurt Warner (3)
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The lower statistical ratios are probably related to poor defenses that game or for the season. Would correlate with major defensive characteristic such as takeaway/giveaway ratio which is very accurate; also could correlate with interception/pass completion percentage for the year for that particular quarterback. Good job!
Great observation, Dr. Bob. With some of these QBs, these numbers show that they can have great games and still lose. The next stat re: QBs should probably be what a team's record was when their QB had a terrible game (maybe under a 70 Passer Rating). Might be some very interesting stats!
I’m stunned that Cutler has had 21 games of a passer rating of at least 100.
Tony:
Half of them (actually 10 of those 100+ Passer Rating games) were when he was with Denver. He’s one of those QBs that when he’s good, he’s very good; but when he’s bad… look out!