Rating NFL QBs

Watched the new Peyton’s Places episode, featuring Kirk Cousins. Cousins is kinda like Peyton. Learned the complicated formula the NFL uses to determine their passing efficiency rating, which is a quarter of the following four components: completion percentage, yards per attempt, touchdowns, and interceptions (below). Cousins career rating is higher than Peyton’s. Later we watched the Manningcast, with guests Jerry Rice and some country music star who grew up in Asheville.

Lotto buzz on the old social media about a certain NFL QB’s performance last weekend. News: at least 30 other QB’s also played. Should a veteran QB be expected to have a good game? Should a rookie QB be excused for having a bad game? Josh Allen had a bad game last week. So did Baker Mayfield. But are Jameis Winston and Jacoby Brissett great? They had great stats but lost. Geno Smith lost to a two win team. 

I’ve listed some stats below so we can compare, to see who had a good weekend, and who maybe not so much. The top 18 NFL QB’s from last week, based on passing yards. Got these numbers before SF and Carolina played Monday night.

YD comp % att-comp rating TD INT team QB result vs opponent’s record

366 50.0% 18-36 093.0…2 TD INT NYG Winston lost to DET 7-4

354 63.9% 23-36 103.2…2 TD INT DAL Prescott beat PHIL 8-3

352 63.0% 29-46 077.5…INT KC P Mahomes beat Colts 8-3

317 67.3% 33-49 092.0…TD Cards J Brissett lost to Jax 7-4

294 62.9% 22-35 087.1…TD INT NE Drake Maye beat CIN 3-8

289 69.2% 27-39 099.2…TD PHIL J Hurts lost to Dallas 5-5

285 68.2% 30-44 093.5…TD Raiders G Smith lost to CLE 3-8

279 66.7% 28-42 091.3…2 TD, INT DET J Goff beat NYG 2-10

273 71.4% 25-35 122.7…3 TD Rams M Stafford beat TB 6-5

256 66.7% 28-42 091.0…TD TEN C Ward lost to SEA 8-3

256 60.0% 18-30 081.4…3 TD 3 INT JAX Lawrence beat ARIZ 3-8

253 70.6% 24-34 067.4…2 INT BUF J Allen lost to HOU 6-5

244 61.5% 16-26 118.1…2 TD SEA S Darnold beat TEN 1-10

243 69.8% 30-43 074.1…INT NO Slough lost to ATL 4-7

239 54.3% 19-35 104.4…3 TD CHI C Williams beat PITT 6-5

222 60.7% 17-28 082.7…INT NYJ T Taylor lost to BALT 6-5

209 55.0% 11-20 087.3…TD INT CLE Sanders beat Raiders 2-9

199 69.6% 16-23 107.0…2 TD, INT ATL Cousins beat NO 2-9

Plenty of football to watch, for five straight days…

100 Thursday Packers @ Lions

430 Thursday Chiefs @ Cowboys

820 Thursday Bengals @ Ravens

1200 Friday #6 Ole Miss @ Miss State

300 Friday Bears @ Eagles

330 Friday #4 Georgia @ #23 Georgia Tech

700 Friday 11-1 Marist @ 12-0 North Oconee

730 Friday #3 Texas A&M @ #17 Texas

1200 Saturday #1 Ohio State @ #18 Michigan

1200 Saturday #13 Miami @ Pitt

1200 Saturday Clemson @ South Carolina

130 Saturday Georgia Southern @ Marshall

200 Saturday Georgia State @ Old Dominion

330 Saturday #14 Vanderbilt @ #20 Tennessee

330 Saturday LSU @ #8 Oklahoma

730 Saturday #10 Alabama @ Auburn

1030 Saturday #9 Notre Dame @ Stanford

100 Sunday Falcons @ Jets

820 Sunday Broncos @ Washington

815 Monday Giants @ Patriots

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MILLER HUGGINS [SABR Bio] received career advice from a future U.S. president. When Huggins was in law school at the University of Cincinnati, one of his more athletic-minded professors was one William H. Taft. Huggins sought his counsel on whether a career in law or a career in baseball would be the better choice. Taft was quick to respond with baseball for Huggins, in spite of Huggins’ diminutive—5'6"—stature. Both men rose to the tops of their respective fields. Huggins was the first manager to guide the Yankees to two straight Word Series defeats, in 1921 & 1922, both to their cross-town rival, John McGraw’s Giants. In ten Hall of Fame votes, Huggins went from 1.2% of the ballots to 63.9%. However the feeling among fans & other baseball cognoscenti was virtually unanimous when he was selected for enshrinement by the Veterans’ Committee. He became a Hall of Famer in 1964, 35 years after his death.