8/27/2007

Bizarro World of Passing Stats?!?

I know its preseason, and that most defensive coordinators are pretty vanilla with their schemes, but some of the quarterbacking numbers from this weekend's preseason games were ridiculous. Check out these 11 starting quarterbacks and what they did. Two of them (Rivers and Romo) played into the first possession of the third quarter, while Tom Brady played into the second possession of the third quarter and Drew Brees didn't even finish out the first half. The rest played the entire first half before putting on the baseball cap and enjoying the rest of the game.

Ben Roethlisberger – 13 of 25, 247 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT
Philip Rivers – 20 of 29, 282 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT
Matt Leinart – 10 of 16, 196 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Tony Romo – 14 of 22, 197 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT
Eli Manning – 17 of 25, 146 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
Rex Grossman – 13 of 20, 211 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT
Peyton Manning – 23 of 27, 233 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT
Tom Brady – 17 of 22, 167 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT
Vince Young – 13 of 19, 162 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
J.P. Losman – 9 of 20, 180 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Drew Brees – 17 of 19, 182 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT

So to recap, this group of 11 starting quarterbacks went 166 for 244 (68% completion percentage) for 2,203 yards, with 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions this weekend - while playing about one half each! That's a quarterback rating of 111.4. That means they averaged going 15 of 22 for 200.3 yards for about one half of play. Breaking that out to a four quarter average, these guys would be somewhere around 30 of 44 for 400 yards and three touchdowns each. That’s just sick - whether the defenses were blitzing or not. What's next, Brady Quinn shaving his head and turning into a competent quarterback???

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