Are You Ready for Some Football?I took a quick look at the NFL quarterbacks and came up with a fairly simple method of rating them. I just took their 2004 stats, multiplied them by two, and added them to their 2003 stats. Then I looked at the ratio of touchdowns to interceptions:
Peyton Manning 4.23
Daunte Culpepper 3.12
Donovan McNabb 2.89
Drew Brees 2.24
Tom Brady 1.98
Trent Green 1.70
Jake Delhomme 1.67
Brett Favre 1.67
Aaron Brooks 1.65
Matt Hasselbeck 1.56
Chad Pennington 1.50
Jake Plummer 1.47
Marc Bulger 1.28
Jeff Garcia 1.23
Byron Leftwich 1.22
Joey Harrington 1.20
Drew Bledsoe 1.16
Patrick Ramsey 1.10
David Carr 1.00
Kerry Collins 0.98
A couple of points: I only included QBs who qualified for the NFL passer rating title in both 2003 and 2004. Unfortunately, this leaves out two of the more interesting quarterbacks in the league, Michael Vick (who was injured for most of 2003) and Ben Roethlisberger (who was a rookie last year). Vick would slot in between Bledsoe and Harrington, near the bottom of the list at 1.18. Roethlisberger would rate a 1.55, putting him right about middle of the pack. Obviously, with his relative youth (23), he seems on the verge of being one of the very best players in the league.
If I were to adjust this, I'd put Brady at the top of the list (three Super Bowl wins and a 9-0 record in the postseason) and bump Favre up a couple spots for similar reasons (while recognizing that he's gotta be close to the end of his career).