QB Index by Gregg Rosenthal

[kevin]

(09-10-2015, 04:24 PM)djs7685 Wrote: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000524987/article/qb-index-ranking-the-starters-132?campaign=fb-nf-sf12966187-sf12966187

Interesting, sort of.

He puts Aaron Rodgers at 1 by himself.

This is the "top shelf" under Rodgers.

2. Ben Roethlisberger
3. Andrew Luck
4. Tom Brady
5. Matt Ryan
6. Philip Rivers
7. Drew Brees
8. Tony Romo
9. Russell Wilson
10. Peyton Manning

This is the "next level".

11. Cam Newton
12. Joe Flacco
13. Matthew Stafford
14. Ryan Tannehill
15. Eli Manning
16. Sam Bradford
17. Carson Palmer
18. Teddy Bridgewater
19. Colin Kaepernick

Andy is included with the "stuck in the middle" crowd.

20. Alex Smith
21. Jay Cutler
22. Andy Dalton
23. Blake Bortles
24. Nick Foles

"The rookies"

25. Jameis Winston
26. Marcus Mariota

Finally, "the question marks"

27. Derek Carr
28. Kirk Cousins
29. Ryan Fitzpatrick
30. Tyrod Taylor
31. Josh McCown
32. Brian Hoyer

People always seem to have interesting things to say about Rosenthal's objectivity. I'm not sure if he's being biased, but I disagree with a handful of his rankings. Some of these seem strange. I won't get to really look much more into this until later though, but figured I'd post it before I had to go for a while.

His 1 simple statement about Andy Dalton is "Dalton is a poor man's Smith", and I'm not so sure how accurate that is.

Who is Gregg Rosenthal ???.....I really don't know off hand who he is....and I sure don't know on what he is basing this list on....Big Ben is # 2 and Peyton Manning is # 10.......Tony Romo and Matt Ryan are ahead of Peyton Manning ????......He can't be going on careers.....He can't be going on last season......Does Rosenthal live where they legalized pot smoking ???......This list is based on nothing and he just pulled it out of his rear end. .......So here is Dalton who in 4 years in the NFL has started 64 straight regular season games and taken the Bengals to 4 straight play-off seasons. A team that only won 4 games in 2008 and 4 games in 2010 before Dalton came here, and with Dalton, 4 straight winning seasons for the first time in Bengals History. Ken Anderson, Boomer Esiason, Jeff Blake and Carson Palmer never put together 3 or 4 straight play-off seasons. Dalton has been to 2 Pro Bowls in his first 4 years. Dalton, Dan Marino and Peyton Manning are the only QB's to throw 20 touchdown passes in each of their first 3 seasons. Dalton set the Bengals season record in passing yards in 2013. ...OK, no play-off wins, but it was amazing the lousy awful Bengals were even led by new players to the play-offs in 2011 and 2012, and in 2014 the team had no receivers at Indy due to injuries all season...The 2013 play-off loss to Chargers in Cincy hurt....but, to say Dalton stinks because of this one game is stupid.  With Carson refusing to play, the rookie came in and led this team to 4 straight play-off seasons, twice as many as Ken Anderson who only did 2 in a row once. Dalton right now has the best winning percentage of all Bengals quarterbacks in Bengals history. ....and Rosenthal has 2 rookies right behind Dalton who have not played one game in the NFL yet......This is a very stupid list.

Enough of this stupid list....There are real games to be played, starting tonight. ...It's time to start the regular season....Gee, everybody had RG3 rated way above Dalton also the last few years, what happened....These lists mean nothing. It's time for NFL regular season. GO Bengals, beat Raiders.....

Peyton Manning at # 10 ????????????????????????????????????????

Here is a list of Quarterbacks who have got their teams to last 4 play-offs : Brady, Rodgers, Dalton......that is it, just those 3....and this list is based on facts, not nonsense.