In first full season (16 game season) for 1. Drew Brees, 2. Peyton Manning, 3. Ben Roethlisberger, 4. JP Losman and 5. EJ manuel (thus far at 13).
My point from stats below isn't that he'll be great or terrible. he could be kyle orton and just stay at this level. but most QBs, it seems, have very similar paths when starting. EJ is still 3 games shy of a full 16. i can't think of who a worse qb was than losman, but i would suspect his first 16 games would be in this general company.
I think once we hit 20-25 games, we start to see who plans to develop and who is going to fade away. the 3 guys who got it, got better the following year. Only Brees struggled for another year before he took off. Losman steadily got worse.
So really the only point of this is to say, I don't really know where EJ is going. I have a lot of concerns on the accuracy in terms of all the throws on the passing tree (clearly not a stat) and how that plays out long term. i think we need to see 20-25 games before we have a good feel for him. and i would be willing to go a full season with him to conclusively prove he isn't the answer than to prolong that period of figuring out who he will be by benching him this season. My expectations for this season were pretty low and i really just want to know if we need to look again for a QB next year or not. I would hate to have this situation where we all know the guy has failed but we stick with him through another 1-2 seasons like we have the last 4-5 qb's we've had.
1. Completion percentage - 60.8%,
3,284 yards,
YPA - 6.24,
TD/Turnovers - 0.94x
QBR - 76.9
2. Completion percentage - 56.7%,
3,739 yards,
YPA - 6.5,
TD/Turnovers - 0.87x
QBR - 71.2
3. Completion percentage - 66.4%,
2,621 yards,
YPA - 8.89,
TD/Turnovers - 1.42x
QBR - 98.1
4. Completion percentage - 62.5%,
3,051 yards,
YPA - 7.11,
TD/Turnovers - 0.90x
QBR - 84.6
5 Completion percentage - 59.8%,
2,585 yards,
YPA - 6.58,
TD/Turnovers - 0.82x
QBR - 80.6
My point from stats below isn't that he'll be great or terrible. he could be kyle orton and just stay at this level. but most QBs, it seems, have very similar paths when starting. EJ is still 3 games shy of a full 16. i can't think of who a worse qb was than losman, but i would suspect his first 16 games would be in this general company.
I think once we hit 20-25 games, we start to see who plans to develop and who is going to fade away. the 3 guys who got it, got better the following year. Only Brees struggled for another year before he took off. Losman steadily got worse.
So really the only point of this is to say, I don't really know where EJ is going. I have a lot of concerns on the accuracy in terms of all the throws on the passing tree (clearly not a stat) and how that plays out long term. i think we need to see 20-25 games before we have a good feel for him. and i would be willing to go a full season with him to conclusively prove he isn't the answer than to prolong that period of figuring out who he will be by benching him this season. My expectations for this season were pretty low and i really just want to know if we need to look again for a QB next year or not. I would hate to have this situation where we all know the guy has failed but we stick with him through another 1-2 seasons like we have the last 4-5 qb's we've had.
1. Completion percentage - 60.8%,
3,284 yards,
YPA - 6.24,
TD/Turnovers - 0.94x
QBR - 76.9
2. Completion percentage - 56.7%,
3,739 yards,
YPA - 6.5,
TD/Turnovers - 0.87x
QBR - 71.2
3. Completion percentage - 66.4%,
2,621 yards,
YPA - 8.89,
TD/Turnovers - 1.42x
QBR - 98.1
4. Completion percentage - 62.5%,
3,051 yards,
YPA - 7.11,
TD/Turnovers - 0.90x
QBR - 84.6
5 Completion percentage - 59.8%,
2,585 yards,
YPA - 6.58,
TD/Turnovers - 0.82x
QBR - 80.6
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