November 28, 2004

The Other Drew

Washed-up Drew Bledsoe threw three interceptions as the Bills squeaked by the Seahawks, 38-9 today. But there is another Drew stalking the land - Drew Brees in San Diego continues to make a statement. Just to steal a march on Easterbrook: I don't wish to alarm you, but the Chargers are 8-3 and Brees has 19 touchdown passes (same as Favre) and three - count them three - interceptions this season (Favre has 11). His QB rating is 105.6, same as Donovan McNabb.

As you may know, Dr. X has developed his own QB rating metric: Interception-Adjusted Yards-per-Attempt. This is the same as Yards-per-Attempt (which football statisticians believe to be the single best rating metric), but is recalculated after imputing a 50-yard penalty for each interception.

The NFL leaders on this metric as of today (name, YPA, IAYPA):
  1. Peyton Manning, 9.1, 8.1
  2. Daunte Culpepper, 8.3, 7.5
  3. Donovan McNabb, 8.2, 7.4
  4. Trent Green, 8.4, 7.1
  5. Drew Brees, 7.5, 7.0
Tom Brady ranks 11th, Michael Vick 15th, Favre 17th, and Hasselbeck 23rd...

Football Outsiders have their own system, which drops Brees down to 7th.

1 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

They got a big boost from the Raiders tonight, who came from behind to beat the Broncos in Denver. BUT: they must win against the Broncos at home next week, or they may not even get into the playoffs.

November 29, 2004 at 12:08 AM  

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