Ranking NFL Quarterbacks: Game Manager? Elite? Scrub?

Giselle Mrs. Tom Brady

Since the quarterback position is unquestionably the most important position in the NFL, I thought I'd attempt to objectively review most of the quarterbacks in the league and rank them.  I look at their career passing statistics and their most recent statistics.  I also want to factor in big wins (like playoff and Super Bowl wins) and Pro Bowl honors.  Now I understand that a QB can win a Super Bowl and not be the best passer (I'm speaking to you Trent Dilfer) but I do include it as a factor.   The same with Pro Bowls.  Often times players get into the Pro Bowl on reputation alone.  But it's worth something and I think it has even more significance if a player has gone to multiple Pro Bowls (because it means his performance wasn't just a fluke year).  I'm ranking players by a grading system and categorizing them in a nominal system similar to the Madden video game.

The one QB I forgot to include is Chad Henne, who started some games with Miami last year before getting injured.  He's an average QB (I'd grade him a C); last year he had a 79 passer rating while throwing 4 TDs and 4 INTs and he's a career 77 passer.  He now is in the mix for the starting job with the Jaguars.

I included pictures of some of the QB's wives and girlfriends because I'm tired of the standard QB pics and quite frankly I find their significant others more pleasant to look at.

The Evolution Of The Two Tight End Offense & Tecmo Super Bowl

8 Bits of Over The Top NFL Fun

New England utilizes a specialized passing game that uses two Tight Ends; Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez.  Jim Harbaugh the Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers was famous for utilizing 3 Tight End personnel packages for his power run game which was integrated into his passing game.  With San Francisco he uses Pro Bowl Tight End Vernon Davis and former college wide receiver Delanie Walker in his multi-Tight End offense.  Michael Silver's article for Yahoo Sports about Bill Belichek and the origins of New England's dynamic two Tight End offense got me thinking about an offense I put together for Tecmo Super Bowl.


Tecmo Bowl
Fifteen to twenty years ago I played one of the greatest sports video games ever; Tecmo Super Bowl.  It was simple game that gave a player a limited number of plays to select and some of the star players had some outrageous and over the top abilities that added to the fun.  I think it was in one of the sequels to Super Tecmo Bowl that you were able to move players around in someway.  What I do remember was trying to get all of the best players on one team.  But when that became boring, my brother and I decided to draft players onto opposing teams.  What I came up with is in principle very similar to the two Tight End offenses you see today.  To best use a two Tight End type of offense, I used a Run and Shoot Playbook.

Tebowing in San Francisco

When rumor first started that the 49ers were interested in trading for Tim Tebow, my first reaction was "WHAT THE FUCK????  Mostly because I think he's just not a good quarterback.  But after some more thought, I think it's because he represents the conservative Christian society in sports in the United States.  Something that mostly goes against my personal beliefs and philosophies.  But the more I think about it, for just pure entertainment value, Tebow to the Niners would have been socio-political train wreck waiting to happen.


Tebow's socia-political views are probably most notable in the media: last year, In 2010, Tebow controversially starred in an ad for the right-wing group Focus on the Family, which opposes LGBT rights. In fact, the organization has argued that there "is no evidence that homosexuals, as a class, are discriminated against in the present society."  Athletes have had a history of accepting, tolerating or just keeping their mouths shut about some of the crazy "liberal stuff" that goes on in the San Francisco Bay Area.