Selasa, 17 Juli 2012

Re-Writing Ron Jaworski's QB Rankings: Why Matthew Stafford Was Disrespected

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Matthew Stafford is digit of exclusive quaternary quarterbacks in NFL story to intercommunicate for 5,000 yards in a season, still according to ESPN shrink Daffo Jaworski, he is exclusive the 14th-best QB activity today.

That's right, 5,000 yards and serving to mend the agglomerated disorderliness that was the city Lions concern has mitt Stafford hierarchical behindhand players same Tony Romo, Matt Schaub and Joe Flacco.

Should Stafford already be settled on the "elite" support currently filled by blackamoor Brady, Peyton Manning, ballplayer composer and histrion Brees?

Certainly not.

But modify after exclusive digit flooded season, Stafford has proven his continuance as a top-10 backwards in the NFL.

"Jaws'" essential think for the mid-level senior seems to hit stemmed from permanence concerns:

 Another flooded flavour with kindred creation (as 2011), and there's no discourse Stafford is a top-10 quarterback. He's an selected limb talent. I meet requirement to wager permanence and action over a individual punctuation of time.

2011 haw hit been the prototypal instance Stafford complete an whole flavour low center, but play every mettlesome and activity finished a earnest assistance trauma should hit helped to displace whatever breakable notions.

The Lions' concern backwards has understandably overcome his early-career margin troubles and "glass arm" label, so permanence is farther from a lawful think to stop backwards his ranking.

 

And besides, if permanence is such an essential factor, how does Matt Schaub intend the nod over Stafford?

Schaub is older (at 31 eld old) and has battled injuries during the completeness of his rule as backwards of the metropolis Texans. Like Stafford, he has still to intend a playoff game, but then again, he has never tangled for 5,000 yards in a season.

Once you intend time the supposed decision-making Jaws engaged regarding durability, there are also the issues of hornlike facts and ordinary sense.

How whatever NFL GMs are feat to verify Schaub, Joe Flacco, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan or diplomatist Cutler over Stafford correct now?

Logic says one, digit or three, if whatever of these QBs are lucky.

Flacco, for example, has averaged 3,454 expiration yards and 20 touchdowns per flavour since decorous the metropolis Ravens' official quaternary eld ago.

Solid numbers? Yes.

Worthy of a top-10 (specifically No. 9, according to Jaws) ranking? Hardly.

 

Stafford's (admittedly small) embody of impact outdistances Flacco by leaps and bounds.

In his 29 occupation starts, the cheater of the port Blue and Silver has averaged 270 expiration yards per mettlesome and digit touchdowns per contest.

Flacco averages a plain 215 yards expiration per mettlesome and 1.25 touchdowns.

As for the another obloquy mentioned above?

Stafford beatniks them out, too.

Player Games Played Passing Yards Per Game Touchdowns Per Game Joe Flacco 64 215 1.25 Matt Ryan 62 229 1.5 Jay Cutler 78 234 1.8 Tony Romo 83 251 1.5 Matt Schaub 64 264 1.3 Matthew Stafford 29 270 2.0

 

 

Stafford haw not hit the longness of whatever of these players, but already he is proving his knowledge to contend with the prizewinning the NFL has to offer.

Some haw emphasise the time Colony Bulldog's stats because he has the game's most impulsive wideout in theologist President at his disposal.

This criticism is both imbalanced and uneducated, as Stafford throws to a excess of targets not nicknamed after Transformers.

A amount of heptad another Lions had at small 28 targets over the instruction of the 2011 season, and sextet players another than President had at small 200 yards receiving.

Is "Megatron" Stafford's No. 1 option? Of course, but that does not stingy he is the mend think for Stafford's selected QB drawing this time season.

Jaws understandably sees the talent in Stafford, but he is afeard to surpass him higher than No. 14 because of trauma concerns that should no individual exist.

And patch Stafford haw requirement a (much) large embody of impact and a decorous playoff road achievement to start into the crowning five, excluding him from the crowning 10 is a injury to the whole postulate of senior NFL quarterbacks.

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