QB Comparisons--2009 season

by Surteal on Jul 7, 2010 6:40 PM EDT

My friend and I recorded these stats off of ProFootballFocus pre-draft 2010. I don't know if the stats have changed since then but i was explaining to this particular Colt-friend of mine that Garrard wasn't that bad and he was slightly impressed afterwards. This takes Manning, Brady, Brees, Garrard and Roethlisberger to the stat sheet. I'm not on my computer so i don't know how to make it a spread sheet. Regardless, the stats should spur an interesting discussion.

I can't get the columns to turn out well, sorry.

P. Manning Brady Brees Garrard Roethlisberger

Hit as thrown 03 09 07 18 12

Batted Passes 09 05 13 12 12

Throw Aways 07 05 05 20 07

Yards 4,518 4,398 4,391 3,597 4,328

Yards per Att. 7.9 7.8 8.5 7.0 8.6

TD 33 28 34 18 26

INT 16 13 11 10 11

Sacks 10 16 20 42 50

Dropped Passes 24 34 20 17 30

P. Manning Brady Brees Garrard Roethlisberger

QB Rating 100.00 96.20 109.7 85.4 100.5

Attempts 571 565 514 516 506

Completions 393 371 363 314 337

Completion % 68.8 65.7 70.6 60.9 66.6

Drop Backs 583 587 539 592 566

*Runs 19 29 22 77 40

*Rushing Yards -13 44 33 323 82

*stats from NFL.com

Make what you want. Im interested to see what all ya'll think.

-Surteal

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Interesting Garrard had the fewest drops

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by Jonathan Loesche on Jul 7, 2010 6:42 PM EDT reply actions

i was really surprised

These walls are cavin in, WHUPS time to raise em then

by Surteal on Jul 7, 2010 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions

did you know

David is ranked above tom brady on PFF for overall QB. now this is mainly because of his insane number of rushing yards but still….

by hawk16lx on Jul 7, 2010 9:06 PM EDT reply actions

These stats

paint a much clear, accurate picture. Garrard is not nearly as good as Brady, Manning, or Brees

by rws591 on Jul 12, 2010 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I still stand by it

If Garrad checked down receivers like he should, he would be a much better quarterback

by hokiewolf on Jul 8, 2010 6:09 AM EDT reply actions

Garrard would be a better QB if theylet him play to his strengths (short pass and he midrange all the time and run freely) They forced him to try and be a gunslinger-in-the-pocket

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by jawsaints on Jul 8, 2010 8:02 AM EDT reply actions

I agree

His biggest weakness is when he has to hold on to the ball and go through his progressions. When he gets rid of the ball quickly, he’s pretty damn good.

You can't reason with unreasonable people.

by JagsAlex87 on Jul 8, 2010 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions

Also, having a half a second more to do that wouldn´t hurt....

by jaxjags.. on Jul 12, 2010 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions

True

But there are plays when he does have time and he just holds the ball too long.

You can't reason with unreasonable people.

by JagsAlex87 on Jul 12, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Statistics are like bikinis...

They show a lot but reveal nothing.

What I see is that he has not progressed as he should at this stage of his career. To paraphrase Denny Green, he is who we thought he is.

Without getting into a classic case of “paralysis by analysis”, you can blame the line, but Ben’s stats nullify that argument. He has the fewest drops but the lowest completion percentage. Tells me he’s scattershot… he panics. We knew that.

I think fumbles would have been a nice stat to throw in there as well as maybe a 3 and out percentage, a red zone percentage stat (TDs/FGs/No points/turnovers). Those are the areas (that have been covered by this site) that I believe keeps Garrard in the mediocre category and if he improved them, could put him in the solid category.

But I am sure he knows that this is his make or break year.

What I see in those stats also is that we played from behind quite a bit last season and could not establish the run as often as we may have wanted to.

by Joe Fisher on Jul 12, 2010 10:53 PM EDT reply actions

nice comparisons

good work on laying out the stats. I think if you threw in a Delhomme/Moore, Collins/Young, Hassellbeck, and Anderson/Quinn with Garrard you’d get a very close spread

by Joe Fisher on Jul 12, 2010 10:56 PM EDT reply actions