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I hear you.Not really disagreeing with you per se but noting it is a bit more involved than that.
QB rating has largely changed due to rule changes. It's not a straight line adjustment of X years equals X points.
As passing has become more prevalent and necessary the ratings have gone up.
As to Winston well the QB rating is a bit of a wildcard stats that ignores a lot of negative plays like Winston's fumbles and charges him only a small negative for an INT that ends up a pick 6.
That's really more an issue with the scoring than it is an era discussion.
And again lots of sources have different scores.
Probably one I most trust copies pro football reference.
https://www.footballdb.com/leaders/career-passing-rating
It places Dak tied for 5th all-time.
And no I do not think Dak is the 5th best of all-time.
But it has him significantly ahead of his peers as well as just historic QBs.
And Aikman was far better on the field than his QB rating suggests. --probably why he created his own rating system.
I'm just saying that those numbers are not really adjusted.
I'm going to guess that Dak is still top 50, even adjusted for era.
I just did a quick look at 1977 vs 1987
Sure enough
- 1977 average QB rating for top 10 QBs was 78 (Staubach was 2nd..his 87 would be about a 110 now)
- 1987 average top for top 10 was 89 (but was exaggerated by crazy high outlier Montana..so prob closer to 88)
- 2017 average was 100