I feel bad for Higgins and Boyd

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(10-19-2021, 06:32 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: The climb in stats favors your theory. I'm just blown away that (a) the average passer rating has climbed 11 points in the last 10 years, and (b) the "average" passer rating is now 95.2. That used to be fantastic. Even fairly recently.

Same deal with the completion % and TDs.

I also know there was change allowing QBs to throw the ball away outside of the pocket back in the early 2000s, and INTs drastically declined after that. I always bring that up any time people bring up old QBs throwing so many picks. They kinda had to force the ball when modern QBs could just throw it away.

95.2 would have been the 7th best QB Rating in 2011. 
105.1 was the 7th best QB Rating in 2020.
107.9 is the 7th best QB Rating so far in 2021.

It's why more and more (doubly so now with a 17th game) I am ignoring a lot of stats. Like Burrow's 89.8 QB Rating last year and 65.3% completion? That SOUNDS quite good... but then you realize that's 3% below average QB Rating, and 4% above average completion% for 2020. 

The Adjusted Passing numbers are a whole lot more useful. Now I know his 107.9 QB Rating is 16% above average this year.