Aaron Rodgers QB Rating

[Guiness]

I don't buy your "QB rating is useless" argument, but I'll concede the point if you can do a couple of things for me:

1) Show me a crappy QB that led the league in QB rating over 1 year.
2) Show me a great QB that trailed the league in QB rating over 1 year.

Didn't Jeff George have the top, or near top rating during his good year in Oakland?

He qualifies as crappy in my book

[Partial]

Yeah...but that 7 in the sacks column stands out like a sore thumb.

Not really. We've been spoiled with Favre. I'd say 2 sacks a game is pretty average. Then again, he played what, 5 quarters total so far?

[BallHawk]

Yeah...but that 7 in the sacks column stands out like a sore thumb.

Not really. We've been spoiled with Favre. I'd say 2 sacks a game is pretty average. Then again, he played what, 5 quarters total so far?

Albeit against two top defenses (Dallas and New England)

[Tarlam!]

Nice comeback from Bobblehead to that attack, which I found appalling from a content side as well as the superfluous name calling.

Classy post Bobble.

[The Leaper]

Not really. We've been spoiled with Favre. I'd say 2 sacks a game is pretty average. Then again, he played what, 5 quarters total so far?

Look at the other QBs in the listing Partial. Very few have taken more than 2 sacks to this point...especially STARTING QBs. Those that have are all very young, inexperienced guys. I don't put Rodgers in that category.

Giving up 7 sacks in the preseason to your starter is ALARMING in my book.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Giving up 7 sacks in the preseason to your starter is ALARMING in my book.

I wouldn't worry about it--unless it happens in the regular season. It's hard to say if a team is prepared properly for it in the preseason. In the regular season, you better be, but it's not unusual for it to be a problem in the preseason. Look at our preseason game vs. San Diego two years ago, and our preseason games vs. Pittsburgh and Seattle last year. We beat Seattle 48-13 or something--mainly because we sacked them into oblivion. They weren't prepared for Atari Bigby blitzing numerous times.

[bobblehead]

Not really. We've been spoiled with Favre. I'd say 2 sacks a game is pretty average. Then again, he played what, 5 quarters total so far?

Look at the other QBs in the listing Partial. Very few have taken more than 2 sacks to this point...especially STARTING QBs. Those that have are all very young, inexperienced guys. I don't put Rodgers in that category.

Giving up 7 sacks in the preseason to your starter is ALARMING in my book.

I agree, holding the ball too long is always a problem with first year starters, hopefully it doesn't become a long term problem.

[SnakeLH2006]

QB rating is useless. show me a QB who converts 3rd and 5, show me a guy who gets it into the endzone once we acheive the redzone, show me a guy who doesnt' turn it over and that is how I judge a QB. Favre was one of the best at the first 2, not so good at the third, thus he was exceptional, just short of all time greatness (my opinion). If Arod can be good at 2 of three he will be damn good.

Not so much....I remember doing a QB rating formula presentation in an advanced Calc. class. Don't have the numbers right now, but the QB's with the best ratings dominated playoff teams. The QB's with the worst ratings dominated the worst teams. It is a useful statistic. I'm happy if Arod plays healthy the whole year with an 80 rating which means 10 wins on a deep team such as ours.

Sacks come into play and wish they put that into the rating (not so much as what that guy does, but to show team levels of sack %)....The highest sacked guys don't do well either. My 2004 Calculus speech went back into 20 years of NFL QB history showing statistical analysis. The QB's with the best ratings/lowest sack %'s did the best. We gotta hope Arod holds the ship steady and doesn't get sacked more than 30 times and has a 80-90 QB rating to be a contender (I'm not even considering the rookie QB's we got, cuz if Arod goes down, so does our season).

QB rating and sack % is a HUGE stat showing team/playoff success based on trends in the NFL over the past 20 years. Oh ya, got an A on that presentation...Dilfer is an abberration in NFL playoff statistical lore.