Dalton vs. Bortles article

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(01-16-2018, 03:05 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Sorry for thr OT post but....


From '05 through '15 league passer rating increased 9 out of ten years.  Over that time it went up over 10% from 78.2 to 88.4.  Over the same time passing yardage increased almost 20% from 203.5 ypg to 243.8.

However in each of the last two seasons both passer rating and passing yards have dropped.  In '17 the league passer rating was 85.1 and yards per game was 224.4.

Two years is a little quick to judge a trend, but after the consistent rise for a complete decade it now seems that the pendulum might be swinging back toward the defense.

I am not so sure it's due to swinging back towards the defense, so much as there is a LOT of bad OL play these days in the NFL.

But either way, how nice would it be to have a nice simple singular number to just look at and immediately know how much better or worse than average a QB was that year?

I'm way too lazy to go about doing that, but it'd sure be cool if someone else did. Lol