Kaepernick Trade For Dalton?

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(06-09-2015, 02:42 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: So the one with much more yards and TDs and a higher completion % gets a lower rating? How is that judging who's a better QB? The biggest part of passer rating is YPA. All that passer rating shows is who is more of an efficient QB, and not who's the better QB. I mean if you like more efficient QBs that's fine, but that's about the same as liking a smart car over a lamborghini.

Also they take all of the stats that have different common denominators, and try to guesstimate how much value each stat should have in that formula.

More yards and more TDs doesn't mean you had a better game. The NFL needed a way to crown a passing champion. Do they choose the guy with the most yards? The most touchdowns? Raw stats don't determine whether you are better or worse than someone else. They came up with a formula that gauges 4 categories and they use non-weighted numbers so that there is no subjectivity to it.

If you were complaining about ESPNs QBR or PFFs grading system i'd be right with you. Any weighted scale is bunk in my opinion. The standar QB rating system uses static numbers to judge QBs against each other. There is nothing weighted to them and there is no subjective grade given or taken away from them. Every QBs performance is equated using black and white numbers across the board. The guys that complete the highest percentage, for the better YPA and have a better TD/att percentage and a lower INT/att percentage are the guys that spend their time in the top 10. The guys that complete a lower percentage of passes and don't do as well in the TD/att INT/att are the ones outside the top 10.

The Bengals QB is usually upper/middle of the pack in att, comp, yards, tds. Where he falls off is comp% and INT/att percentage. First one is too low and the second is too high. 

I was screaming to high heaven after the '13 season that up until the Ravens finale, Dalton was a 90 rated QB, right at #10. Then he went into that game and threw FOUR freaking interceptions and Kaep passed him up in the QB standings. That's Dalton's fault. Not the rating system's fault.

People keep coming up with excuses as to why he can't seem to break the top 10. Eff the excuses. It's year 5 and if he can't get it done this year, he'll never get it done. 


One thing you can be sure of is, i've spent hours trying to come up with a better gauge for today's QBs. And the one thing that doesn't change is, no matter what numbers i use and no matter how i change them, Dalton stays middle to bottom of the pack. That's not because the world is against him. It's because he's just not shown as a top 10 QB at this point.