Alex Smith week 10 QBR

[Thepatty13]

ESPN NFL QBR ranks: Alex Smith and Ginn's drop

Points out why a lot of people are skeptical of QBR.

 

[shouldakepowens]

They don't like when you make duplicate threads

 

[Thepatty13]

I know but that Alex Smith QBR thread I made was old. Move it is you guys see it necessary.

 

[MHSL82]

Just because this thread was repeated, felt this should go with it and let the prior thread go.

"(Drops are) not all a receiver's fault... because he wanted to run before catching it, because the defense distracted him"? How is that NOT the receiver's fault? What about bad decisions to throw into coverage "because the QB didn't want to get sacked" or "because he got distracted by the pass rush"? Neither should excuse them.

"If the defender was there a half second before, the defender would have knocked the ball free and it would have been called a 'defended pass,' not a 'dropped pass.'" This one is more reasonable but saying that the ball could have been PD, shouldn't excuse a drop any more than an INT could have been an INC/COMP/TD if the defender were there half a second later.

This goes to ALL QBs, not just Smith.

 

[clyde_carbon]

I don't trust the QBR or QB rating.

 

[imac_21]

Tebow had the 6th best QBR this week.

His rating was roughly the equivalent of what Smith would have had without the INT.

 

[tomikcon1971]

Based on that, it has to be a solid metric....

 

[tomikcon1971]

The best thing about Tebow is the youth of today can see what the QB position looked like in the 1940's.

 

[numone9er]

I don't trust the QBR or QB rating.

Do you have an idea for a better way to rate the QB?

 

[Flyingiguana]

Do you have an idea for a better way to rate the QB?

qb rating comes the closest.