11-04-2021, 04:25 PM
(11-04-2021, 03:59 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Favre's reputation as a turnover machine isn't really accurate. He only led the league in INTs 3 times in a 20 year career, and his career INT rate of 3.3% was exactly league-average during the time he played (1991-2010).
He just had memorable picks in the playoffs and a few dud games, and I think that plus the fact that he's thrown the most INTs in NFL history leads people to believe it was a worse problem than it really was. Thing is, he threw more times than anybody other than maybe 3-4 guys who all played in the modern era where rule changes have led to fewer picks overall.
So his INT record will probably never be broken.
As for Burrow, his INT rate this year (3.7%) is MUCH higher than than the overall league average (2.2%). That said, it may take years to tell if it's a real problem or if it's just a one year issue that he'll grow out of.
Yeah, it’s definitely overblown. It was just a different era. If anything, it MIGHT come from 1999 on. That’s as far back as I can go with my database, but from 1999-2010, Favre had an INT% of 3.25% whereas the league average dipped to 2.9%. His INT% stayed constant as the league improve. Even still, it’s a 10% difference.
If we’re going to bring up real turnover machines, we can talk about Dilfer. He just wasn’t very good overall lol.
