Tanier: The Quarterback Nonsense Index

[JD_KaPow]

No athletes generate as much mass-media nonsense as NFL quarterbacks (well, maybe with the exception of one or two). When they win, it is news. But when they lose, lose badly, lose comically, get paid, get married, get a new tattoo or do anything else besides study playbooks and lift weights, it's bigger news. An entire industry is fueled by quarterback nonsense: ESPN would go dark during the day without it, sports radio would not be a three-station-per-market phenomenon, and the blogosphere would go back to being a concentrate-on-your-jobosphere. Also, I would still be teaching algebra....

You know where this is going: A Quarterback Nonsense Index (QNI). The quantifiable factors are weighted, sums are tallied and we get a rating of which quarterbacks are best at stimulating the kind of prepackaged debate that keeps the lights on over at the First Take studio.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/55968780

Well, it's pretty obvious who's #1 on this list, and the gap to #2 is enormous.

 

[Echo9]

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/55968780

Well, it's pretty obvious who's #1 on this list, and the gap to #2 is enormous.

Long article, but humorous. Nicely mocks the TMZness of sports media.

 

[percyhoward]

This Tanier dude can write.

"Very good quarterbacks doomed to careers of hanging around the edge of the playoffs get stuck with awful reputations that they do not deserve. Doing so while dating country starlets and wearing a star on the helmet only makes things worse."

And that was just from the comments section.

 

[JD_KaPow]

This Tanier dude can write.

Oh yes. He's at the top of my list of required reading for anyone who follows football. Even though he's an Eagles fan.