I benched Luck on all teams this week in favor of Carr, Winston & Eli.

Luck might throw 5 TD's now!

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One of the things that makes me chuckle about people considering whether Newton "deserves" to be the MVP is imagining how much they'd be slobbering Luck if he was the one in that position. Given how the media rushed to anoint him as a top 3 quarterback just for making the playoffs from the worst division in football in previous seasons, I imagine he'd already be a first-ballot lock for Canton if he'd started this season 14-0.

Great point actually. Never thought of it that way.

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No one would prefer Stafford over Luck if given the choice, but Stafford has been pretty good the last 5 or 6 weeks. I think Stafford deal is up with the Lions after this year. I doubt they re-sign him.

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Except everyone that has watched NFL football and isn't stuck in their 2012 belief that Andrew Luck is the next Marino.

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This is clearly a lost season for Luck, but he is certainly going to be better than Stafford going forward. Who do you think will have the better QB rating/QBR between the two going forward? Barring chronic injuries, Luck will outperform Stafford over the next year, few years, and both their careers. He's simply better. You're way off base on this one.

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I'm not even sure you watch the NFL outside the Vikings and Bears, but if you do, you're the only one who does who would take Stafford over Luck going forward.

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Agreed on all counts, but I'll side with Winkel over Frank.

Stafford>Luck

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Except he has had one good season out of his four. What is the indicator that he will suddenly be better than Stafford, who has had many really good years. If we're in the business of removing injury years, Stafford has a career 88.1 rating. Luck, excluding this year, has an 86.6 rating.

Additionally, Stafford has been trending up for 4 seasons. He is suddenly going to lose it?

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Luck was well on his way

QB rating
76
87
95

Then he got hurt.

With that said, Dalton and Stafford were both as good as Luck's best this year.


Dalton seems like a career year. Stafford has shown he can be great before.

Stafford's best seasons were over four years ago. Luck's best season was last year. Luck improved significantly his 2nd and 3rd seasons, then regressed this year and also had injuries derail his season. Stafford's been a middling Cutler-esque WB for almost five years now. There's no reason to think Luck is going to be a career 85 QB rating guy his whole career, if we go by his first three seasons and project forward. There's every reason to think Stafford is that guy. Even when you cherry pick stats, they don't favor Stafford. If you take their entire body of work into account, Luck is head and shoulders above Stafford as the pick going forward. This is an awful sports debate.

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Why is Luck anointed and Dalton and Stafford are just having a single good year?

Over the first 4-5 years of their respective careers, all three of these QB's are doing better than Manning's first 5 seasons. Why is Luck a must have QB and Dalton and Stafford are not?

EDIT: Stafford is having the second best year of his career, and is only slightly away from best year if we're going by rating.

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Part of it is that many of us don't just compare QB ratings, and watch the games. Anyone who's done this the past 3-4 years knows Dalton is a head case who needs everything to be going perfect to play well, and he is also someone who routinely folds in big games and when pressured. Luck, by contrast, has played inconsistent but well overalll in big games, he's one of the better QBs in the league when pressured, and he routinely makes throws Dalton is not capable of making. Stafford actually has similar abilities and poor decision making to Luck, so he's a better comp, but again, Luck can make better throws more consistently, has actually led his team to some playoff wins and regular season wins, and seemed poised to continue to improve before this season started. I have no reason to think a few injury riddled games this year are more indicative of his future performance than the first three seasons were.

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Yeah...see the thing is is that I watch the games also. And since I have statistics that back up my thoughts and you have absolutely nothing besides 'I feel that...' or 'it seems like...'

Sure, you can bring up Dalton's playoff record. Have you seen Luck's postseason statistics? Did you watch those games? Spoiler alert, he was fucking terrible.

You know who also was terrible in the playoffs to start his career? Peyton Manning...one of the Top QB's of all time.

Dalton, Luck, and Manning all had extremely similar starts to their careers. Peyton Manning is HOF, Luck is soon to be HOF, but Dalton is garbage. Makes complete sense.

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Then talk about them, like I did. Don't just copy/paste QB ratings. Also, the stats do not back you up.

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I'm really not inclined to give Luck credit for regular season wins over Stafford due to how much better the latter's division has been. Green Bay's presence alone has made it a far tougher task to win the North, but beyond that even the Bears and Vikings at their worst weren't as bad as Jacksonville or Tennessee have been at various points of Luck's career.

QBR says Luck is better than both by quite a bit. Except this season, of course.

Fair enough. Everything else is still pointing towards Luck being better in the future than Stafford or Dalton.


IMU, let's just put a wager on this since we are not going to agree. I'll take Luck, and I'll give you Stafford AND Dalton. Whoever has the best QB rating of the three over the next 16 healthy games all of them play wins the bet. Since you think Luck is the worst of the three, your odds of winning should be over 2-1.

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QBR

What is "everything else?"

What is considered a healthy 16 games?

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QBR is widely considered superior to QB rating. Very few analysts are still using rating over QBR.

We just have to go with the next 16 games all three play in and finish. Let's say if they dont make it to the 2nd half it gets disqualified as not a healthy game.

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Stafford is signed through 2017.

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Only ESPN uses QBR, and only because they invented it. QBR is far more criticized than even MLB's WAR is.

Look up the term "QBR" on Google. Half the Top 10 results are articles bashing the hell out of it. CBS doesn't even acknowledge is at a statistic on their NFL site. Of course, NFL does not either.

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Most other sites like Football Outsiders will use their own stat like DYAR and DVOA, but also like QBR. They don't usually analyze QB rating. QBR is much more analogous with DVOA and DYAR than QB rating. If you want to compare it to baseball, you're basically judging batters by batting average and RBIs and thats it.

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Results are what matters. Passer rating judges things that happen. Passes completed, passes attempted, touchdowns, interceptions, etc. Actual, valid statistics.

QBR "analyzes" (what is the formula? What is factored in? Please Dilfer, let us know) and tries to compare one incompletion to another? Sure, both Tyrod and Cousins missed their receiver....but Tyrod was under more pressure so his throw was harder and therefore we'll count it as a completion. What? The? Fuck?

Passer rating is more like OPS.

QBR is like WAR...if the statisticians behind bWAR and fWAR were way more secretive about the formula... and they tried to judge one pop-up flyout as better than another pop-up flyout.

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You sound like one of those 80 year old baseball fans lamenting these new metrics. Of course not all incompletions and completions are equal. There's definitely value in adding context to the numbers. When you dont have that context, you get dopes like you suggesting Dalton is the next Peyton Manning, even though he couldn't throw 40 TDs in a season if his entire family's life depended on it.

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But you're trusting....who?.... to tell you which completions and which incompletions are better than others? And that entity refuses to disclose any information as to how they come up with these ratings. And then you have Charlie Batch going 12-17 with 3 TD and 2 INT and he has a 99.9 out of 100 QBR for that game? 12-17 with 3 TD and 2 INT is the best game ever?

When you sort WAR and OPS, it makes sense.

When you sort passer rating and then you sort QBR and you put them side by side...passer rating makes way more sense. The statistics and the 'eye test' put passer rating's list way closer to the top QB's than QBR does.

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There are major questions about Luck after this year. I was a strong believer but you have to wonder if he just isn't going to ever get there.

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Once again I disagree with pretty much all of this.

So.... about that wager?

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