11-08-2015, 07:25 PM
(11-08-2015, 06:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: He was 6th in the league in passing tds and 9th in yards in 1999 when he led the Seahawks to the playoffs.
NBot exactly "great" but plenty good enough to give him a level to "come back" to.
You're cherry picking good stats. He're the other stats:
18th in passer rating
5th most INT's
somewhere below 29th in completion % (pro football database only listed the top 29)
Simply put, he was not "great". He wasn't even good.
Now compare that to when he won the award, 4 years later:
9th in passer rating
10th in completion %
5th in TD passes
7th in yards
10th most INT's (tied with 3 others)
It wasn't a "comeback" for Kitna, it was a career year. His previous high passer rating was 77.7. He was at 87.4 in 2003, which was nearly a 10 point jump.
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