Favre's Interceptions

[HarveyWallbangers]

Favre is within reach of setting the interceptions record--mainly because he and Marino have thrown so many more passes than any other QBs. However, I read an interesting stat in ESPN magazine (which I bet won't get played up much if he gets near the record--although kudos for ESPN The Mag for having it): Of the 26 QBs who have thrown 200 TDs or more, Brett actually has the 5th lowest interception rate (only Montana, Young, Marino, and Manning have lower interception rates). He's had 2 or 3 seasons where he's had big interception numbers, but his interceptions (for the amount of balls he's thrown) is historically low. You won't hear that from the national media much.

[RashanGary]

Nice stat HW...

[woodbuck27]

Favre is within reach of setting the interceptions record--mainly because he and Marino have thrown so many more passes than any other QBs. However, I read an interesting stat in ESPN magazine (which I bet won't get played up much if he gets near the record--although kudos for ESPN The Mag for having it): Of the 26 QBs who have thrown 200 TDs or more, Brett actually has the 5th lowest interception rate (only Montana, Young, Marino, and Manning have lower interception rates). He's had 2 or 3 seasons where he's had big interception numbers, but his interceptions (for the amount of balls he's thrown) is historically low. You won't hear that from the national media much.

Harvey:

Wasn't it you that posted the Pick Rate for QB's... considering the number of total pass's? Wasn't Brett Favre third best, in that category?

[MJZiggy]

Beautiful work, Harvey.

[Bretsky]

Favre is within reach of setting the interceptions record--mainly because he and Marino have thrown so many more passes than any other QBs. However, I read an interesting stat in ESPN magazine (which I bet won't get played up much if he gets near the record--although kudos for ESPN The Mag for having it): Of the 26 QBs who have thrown 200 TDs or more, Brett actually has the 5th lowest interception rate (only Montana, Young, Marino, and Manning have lower interception rates). He's had 2 or 3 seasons where he's had big interception numbers, but his interceptions (for the amount of balls he's thrown) is historically low. You won't hear that from the national media much.

Harvey:

Wasn't it you that posted the Pick Rate for QB's... considering the number of total pass's? Wasn't Brett Favre third best, in that category?

Think that may have been Patler

[Homer Jay]

red posted this june 4th:

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ok, so i posted this on another site awhile ago and got 0 responses for it, which sucked, because it took a bit of time to do

a lot of folks out there are making a big deal about the fact that Brett is about to break the record for most career int's, and use this to somehow discredit him. they say he's been too wild and out of control over his career. i thought people should look at the other numbers and compare this with the exact opposite stat td's thrown. so i came up with a little ratio (td's/int's) and compared bretts numbers to the "greats". the numbers even surprised me

all super bowl winning qb's

name td/ints tds per int

Bart Starr 152/138 1.10
Joe Namath 173/220 .79
Len Dawson 239/183 1.31
Johnny Unitas 290/253 1.15
Roger Staubach 153/109 1.4
Bob Griese 192/172 1.12
Terry Bradshaw 212/210 1.01
Ken Stabler 194/222 .87
Jim Plunkett 164/198 .83
Joe Montana 273/139 1.96
Joe Theismann 160/138 1.16
Jim McMahon 100/90 1.11
Phil Simms 199/157 1.27
Doug Williams 100/93 1.08
Mark Rypien 115/88 1.31
Troy Aikman 165/141 1.09
Steve Young 232/107 2.17
Brett Favre 396/255 1.55
John Elway 300/226 1.33
Kurt Warner 119 /78 1.53
Trent Dilfer 106/117 .91
Tom Brady 123 /66 1.86
Brad Johnson 155/102 1.52
Ben Roethlisberger 34/20 1.70

so by my math favre has thrown 1.55 td's for every int for his career. thats 5th best if you look at all the super bowl winning qb's. only behind some guys named montana, young, brady, and roethlisberger. and with time, and without top notch teams, brady and big bens ratio could drop

then i looked at the top 20 qb's of all time based on attempts

D Marino..........8358.....420/252.....1.66
B Favre............7612.....396/255.....1.55
J Elway.............7250.....300/226.....1.33
W Moon ...........6823.....291/233.....1.25
D Bledsoe ........6548.....244/198.....1.23
V Testaverde.....6526.....269/261.....1.03
F Tarkenton.......6467.....342/266.....1.29
D Fouts ............5604.....254/242.....1.05
J Montana .........5391.....273/139.....1.96
D Krieg ............5311.....261/199.....1.31
B Esiason ..........5205.....247/184.....1.34
J Unitas..............5186.....290/253.....1.15
K Collins ............5082.....173/166.....1.04
J Hart ................5076.....209/247.....0.85
S Deberg ............5024......196/204.....0.96
J Everett .............4923.....203/175.....1.16
J Kelly ................4779.....237/175.....1.35
T Aikman ..........4715.....165/141.....1.17
J Hadl ..............4687.....244/268.....0.91
P Simms ............4647.....199/157.....1.27

brett doesn't do too bad with these guys either. 3rd (td/int ratio), only behind that montana guy again and that marino fella

maybe bretts not as bad and wild as some people think he is

[HarveyWallbangers]

Drew Bledsoe has the 5th most attempts all-time?

[the_idle_threat]

Drew Bledsoe has the 5th most attempts all-time?

Bledsoe is up there in a lot of cumulative passing categories. I did a write up on him here, in the HOF class of 2015 thread.

[LEWCWA]

But Brett's are by far the best looking ones of all time!