While I can agree with some of the general conclusions -manning good, darnold bad etc, you are using team records to assess quarterbacks.
There's one little flaw in that though. The other 50 players, 20 coaches, luck of the schedule, division, injuries and refs etc.
Team records are exactly what many owners use to assess QBs (what's that old saying: NFL =
Not For Long). And sometimes it's even more than regular season records and a single playoff appearance - but going to the
Super Bowl is the benchmark. A few examples:
Recall Keenum at Minn in 2017. The starter Bradford gets hurt after just two games. Keenum starts week #3 and finishes the season. He goes 11-3 and the team finishes an amazing 13-3 with a division title. Keenum's stats are pretty good that season and he's named
51st best out of the top 100 NFL players for that year. They beat NO in the first round and play in the championship game one step from the SB, which is to be played at
their brand new palace. Keenum plays poorly and the team gets hammered by the Eagles 38-7. Keenum, a free agent, is
not re-signed and is let go. The owner wants the guy at the Skins and pays a fortune to get him. Most owners would have been thrilled doing cartwheels that their team made it to the conference championship and would have kept Keenum, at least for another year.
Remember Alex Smith? In his six (6) seasons at KC, they were
all winning seasons with 2 divisional titles and all but one playoff appearance. And Smith had some pretty solid stats in some of those 6 winning seasons. But Smith was 1-4 in those playoffs games and couldn't get the team to at least the conference championship game. Obviously, ownership was a tad bit ticked because they didn't fire Reid, but instead traded the house away to get the
Gunslinger, who incidentally took the team to the conference championship in his first full season as a starter. But I say the expectations for KC are a SB appearance or this will be considered a failure, considering they traded so much for Mahomes as they were all ready going to the playoffs practically every year with Smith.
Flacco: A
SB winning MVP QB who goes 8-8 in 2016 and 9-7 in 2017 with no playoffs. In fact, his stats in 2016 were phenomenal with some career highs. But the Ravens were obviously not happy with the
team's 17-15 record over back to back seasons and no playoffs, so instead of firing JH or blaming something else, they blame Flacco and go draft LJ in the 1st rd. Flacco gets hurt halfway during the following season going 4-5 before the injury - insert LJ who goes 6-1 and to the playoffs. So long Flacco and LJ is the new franchise QB exceeding expectations beyond belief this year with a 12-2 record thus far.
Manning:
A two-time SB winning MVP QB goes 3-13 in 2017 & 5-11 in 2018 with phenomenal stats in 2017 (after a 11-5 season in 2016 and a 1st rd playoff loss). Nonetheless ownership selects Jones with the 6th OA pick in 2019 sending a clear message it's time to move on. And the Giants waste no time inserting Jones at the helm by the 3rd game this season. Even Mahomes had to sit the bench his rookie season (started only the last game after the division was locked up). Why not give Manning more offensive weapons to work with? This is a two-time SB winning MVP here and future HOF. This is a
Manning. He's only 38 with no signficant injury history (Brady's
only 42. Lol). The obvious reason was that he wasn't
winning anymore - not enough "W" and ownership had enough. The Manning era is over and barring injury, Jones is
expected to lead the Giants back to the SB glory years.
And look at the mess at Jacksonville this year: The owner opens his checkbook and signs Foles to a four-year, $88 million contract and $50.1 million in guaranteed money (this after dumping Bortels who in 2018 signed a 3 year, $54 million contract extension to stay with the Jags through the 2020 season!). Another
SB winning MVP QB who is supposed to be the answer to all of Jacksonville's problems. Foles gets hurt in week#1 - insert Minshew who goes an impressive 4-5 for a 6th rd pick rookie drafted solely for a backup role. Foles is cleared to play getting his starting job back, but goes 0-3 and is benched for the rest of the season in favor of Minshew. And Minshew now has a chance to compete for the starting job next year. So, going into this Sunday's game you have a 6th rd pick rookie making $2.7 million/4-yrs starting and the
17th highest paid QB sitting the bench making him probably the highest paid backup in the history of the NFL.
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