garyo1954
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None of those kinds of stats matter because wins and losses are achieves by teams not individual players. I am fond of saying that no player in the NFL can win a game all by himself but a QB absolutely can lose a game all by himself. A QB can play okay or even bad and other areas of the team can cover it up. But if a QB is inept enough he can make it impossible for even a great team around him to overcome. But you can only determine that from watching a game. If you didn't watch the game then you have no way of knowing how many of his interceptions bounced off a receiver's hands.. Or how many of his fumbles were caused by a blindside hit because the line whiffed on a block. Having watched every snap of every game Dak has played in his career I can honestly say I have rarely come away from a game feeling like he was the main reason we lost. Sure he has contributed... but I've not often left a game thinking "gee if only we had so and so at QB we would have won. On the flip side I have watched several games where I thought he absolutely bailed us out when the rest of the team wasn't really playing all that hot. He has been remarkably steady overall over the course of his career. He has had a passer rating over 100 in 34 of his 69 starts. Nearly half.. He's been above 90 in another 11. So in 45 of his 69 starts he has had what one would generally consider a good passer rating. He has only had 9 games in his career with 2 or more INTs. And only 11 games in which he has thrown more INTs than TDs. Even over these last 21 games when people are claiming he is "not elite" he has been over 100 passer rating 10 times and has only thrown more 2 or more INTs twice. His TD/INT ratio over those 21 games has been 39 to 15. Almost three to one. He has not failed to complete at least 55% of his passes since week 13 of 2017. And despite not being an accurate passer this kid has had a total of TWO games in his career under 50% completion rate. And both of those were his rookie year.
Just for comparison I looked up some of these same metrics for Russ in his first 69 games. In his first 69 starts Russ had 7 games with 2 or more INTs and 6 games with more INTs than TDs. Good stuff. Russ had a passer rating over 100 in 32 of those games.. and above 90 in 6 others.. So Russ was a little better on the TD/INT scale while Dak is a little better on the passing at a high level overall scale. They were a lot alike. That really proves out when you look at absolute stinker games.. Games with passer rating below 70... Both guys have been really good at staying away from the stinker.. Each had 10 such games in their first 69 starts. THeir TD/INT ratio overall was also very similar. 106/40 for Dak 108/35 for Russ. The more I look at this stuff the more I wonder why people act like it's an insult to say Dak should be paid on par with what Russ got. When looking at similar points in their careers the numbers for their individual play are remarkably similar. Of course Russ won more.. but maybe.. just MAYBE having one of the best defenses in modern history had a little something to do with that.
If none of those stats matter why did you bother looking?