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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
I love when people use stats - much less cherry pick a specific stat- apparently knowing nothing about the "guts" of the statistics itself, and then try to "win" an argument using it.
Passer rating might be the single most ridiculous stat kept in the four major professional sports.
Complete passes and don't turn the ball over and it considers you the love child of Peyton Manning, Joe Montana and Johnny Unitas.
A QB with a game rating of 124.5 had a great day, right?
Completed 78% and threw for 2 TD's and no INT's.
Phenomenal day.
Until you watch the game, and see that he only completed 14 passes for 90 yards and his team lost by 20. (before you accuse me of a hypothetical, this is an actual stat line)
Passer rating is pointless. And please, would one of you who think passer rating is a perfectly acceptable way to judge a QB, yet thinks ESPN's QBR is skewed, explain why.
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QBR & Passer Rating both have their flaws.
Its kind of like looking at drops and saying we only drop 2 passes a game no biggie while ignoring that the drops drops seem to always come on 3rd down and killed drives when a catch would have meant a 1st down, a large gain, or possibly a score. A drop on 1st or 2nd down really isn't equal to a drop on 3rd down and 5 or a drop on a 10 yard pass on 3rd and 20.
You have to look at the whole picture and while Smith isn't really a top 5 QB he is pretty damn good at "his" game which has resulted in way more wins than losses for 3 seasons now.