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..... I find most stats to be very lacking, consider this: a QB throws to an open receiver with great ball placement but the receiver bobbles the ball and the DB grabs it out of the air, that counts as an INT just the same as a QB throwing right into the arms of the DB without a receiver anywhere around. Are those numbers indicative of the QB's skill and decision making? Of course not, which is why getting too obsessed with these stats leads to inaccurate conclusions.
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So, my criteria is very simple for judging a player, do they do what you need when you need it.
So you have a very subjective way of measuring a QB.
You remember the bad decisions and poor plays and forget all the
great throws and critical good plays he made.
Then you try to compare that to years past.
Do you even remember the many poor plays Brady made in the Championship years? Well he did make them.
There were even 4 int games.
So get out your handy dandy good/bad play recorder and give us some
objective evidence to support your claims. While doing it be sure to
include other contributing factors to the bad plays.
(assuming you know what all other players were suppose to be doing,
how the plays were suppose to be run and the effect the defense
had on contributing to the bad plays in question)
I remember BB in one conference when discussing Brady. He said he
would ask Brady why he made such a play when BB didn't think he should
have. With Tom's answer, BB said he went back looked at the film and found Brady was right.
Stats as much as you dislike them Snake, give an indication of how well
a player did for a WHOLE season. Not just three or four games.
