Marinlik
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Should just let Gruden do them. Everyone would have a 100 QBR.Well, what else would you expect from a formula partly developed with input from such paragons of QB'ing like Ron Jaworski, Trent Dilfer, and Jon Gruden?
ESPN's Quarterback Ratings are a joke
Check this out: NFL Total Quarterback Rating - National Football League - ESPN
Aaron Rogers, with his 77 yard performance at Denver, is rated ahead of Tom Brady's 356 yard with 4 TD's performance against Miami.
That's awesome.
I am convinced it is a passive-aggressive form of trolling.
It's always a beautiful thing when truth shines through the bullsh.t like that.
Its so blatant its absurd.
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Flacco had a higher QBR than Brady in the playoff game as did Wilson in the SB lol. Isn't that rating suppose to be heavy on fourth quarter stats?
There is nothing that points to the ESPN QBR being statistically based. There is no correlation with performance statistics.
Given the results, it is far more likely that the numbers are the results of a group of ESPN managers selecting numbers. Statistically it is very hard to argue otherwise.
A lot of the reason QBR was created is cause of how imperfect the old passer rating was.
While passer rating is hardly perfect it is a hell of a lot better than QBR and one of the best stats overall to measure a QB by in the long term when compared within era.
If you were to go by something other than Passer Rating that is in the same ball park I'd pick "Real QB rating" on CHFF cause it is easy to understand and while imperfect as well is reasonably fair.
ESPN is entertainment, nothing more. It's futile to be concerned with its lack of journalism or integrity. ESPN is nothing more than Keeping Up With The Kardashians with a football being tossed around in the background instead of Kim putting make up on with a high pressure sprayer. They are WWE wrestling without the Avalanche move creating that big mat slamming sound. When ESPN isn't broadcasting a sporting event or putting on a show that speaks specifically about the stats/workings of the game, ESPN is in business to make you feel the same things you feel when you go into a haunted house at Disneyworld, or get a bird's eye glimpse of the accident scene, or get that unintended glimpse of titillating behavior that goes on behind closed doors.
Most fans just don't seem to realize how powerful the NFL is. A thumbs down from Goodell/the NFL would be a major blow to ESPN. You think ESPN isn't going to think loooong and hard about going negative on the NFL? That they won't carry the water of whatever theme the NFL wants to push (polishing Goodell's apple)? Consider:
(A) What is important to ESPN entertainment? Journalism or revenue/stock price/their jobs?
(B) Disney's news division is a single digit percent of Disney corp's dollar value.
(C) ESPN is 60% of the dollar value of the Disney corp.
(D) ESPN's most important gross revenue is subscriber fees from Satellite and Cable packages that carry ESPN.
(E) Cable and Satellite providers bundle ESPN into most all of its packages with the #1 reason (not the only though) being the NFL.
(F) Without the NFL, which is the biggest draw BY FAR on TV including the highly prized and elusive young demo, cable/satellite is apt to pull back on carrying ESPN on all packages.
(G) the subscriber fee stream gets jeopardized when it is easier for non sports fans to not have to subscribe to ESPN.
(H) Currently a majority of non sports fan that never watch ESPN but have a cable/satellite package that includes ESPN pays 6 dollars a month to ESPN.
(J) The NFL can absolutely look elsewhere for a network to carry a game
(K) The NFL network carries an NFL game but the NFL network doesn't get into enough homes.
(L) The NFL sold the rights to simulcast that NFL network broadcast game to CBS.
(M) CBS not only paid huge money for that, CBS moved its single most popular TV show for the right demo, the Big Bang Theory, to accommodate the simulcast (fyi, the viewership of Big Bang dwarfs virtually everything ESPN broadcasts except NFL).
(N) This clearly spells a threat to ESPN's future for carrying an NFL game. They'll either lose it or pay even more absurdly high $$$ to carry it.
Disney losing the NFL is likely to result in losing billions in stock value and plummeting gross revenue at it's most valuable division, ESPN (along with lots of layoffs). That's not a sports fan's hot air, that is fact. And it means a man like Roger Goodell carries immense power. So do you think Disney's ESPN division and Disney's news division will avoid stories that jeopardize the NFL - Disney relationship if possible??. They don't care one iota if Brady is being railroaded. They have concerns that make that kind of story irrelevant. And that is case with, though not quite as acute as Disney, of Universal, Comcast, TimeWarner, FOX corp, Universal-NBC and a whole bunch of others who below the surface have a massive reach into all corners.
Just is what it is....only cutting the cord can really strike at the heart of ESPN-Goodell.