NFL: Who are the Best Regular Season QBs Ever?
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tacogeoff
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Matt Stafford AINEC (of course I am joking about AINEC)
he is a beast! would of been a treat to see him play with a better team all these years. Still has done extremely well NFL records wise.
NFL records
Most passing touchdowns in a single game by a rookie quarterback: 5 (tied with Ray Buivid and Jameis Winston)[41]
Youngest quarterback to throw 5 or more touchdowns in a single game (21 years, 288 days)
First player in NFL history to throw for 1,500 yards and 14 TDs over a 4-game span: (2011, Weeks 14–17)
First player in NFL history to complete 60% or more of all passes in each game in a season (2015-2016)
Most games with at least one touchdown pass in a season: 16 (2011, tied NFL record)
Most consecutive 350+ yards passing games: 4 (2011–2012, tied with Drew Brees)[42]
Most yards thrown in a single game without a touchdown pass: (443, December 22, 2012)
Most passing attempts in a season: 727 (2012)[43]
Most pass attempts per game, career: 39.88, 2009–present[44]
Most pass attempts per game, season: 45.44, 2012[45]
Most games with 40+ pass attempts in a season: 13 (2012)[46]
Fastest player to reach 15,000 career passing yards (53 GP)
Fastest player to reach 20,000 career passing yards (71 GP)
Fastest player to reach 25,000 career passing yards (90 GP)
Most passing yards in first 100 games
Most fourth quarter comebacks in a season (7, tied with Peyton Manning)
he is a beast! would of been a treat to see him play with a better team all these years. Still has done extremely well NFL records wise.
NFL records
Most passing touchdowns in a single game by a rookie quarterback: 5 (tied with Ray Buivid and Jameis Winston)[41]
Youngest quarterback to throw 5 or more touchdowns in a single game (21 years, 288 days)
First player in NFL history to throw for 1,500 yards and 14 TDs over a 4-game span: (2011, Weeks 14–17)
First player in NFL history to complete 60% or more of all passes in each game in a season (2015-2016)
Most games with at least one touchdown pass in a season: 16 (2011, tied NFL record)
Most consecutive 350+ yards passing games: 4 (2011–2012, tied with Drew Brees)[42]
Most yards thrown in a single game without a touchdown pass: (443, December 22, 2012)
Most passing attempts in a season: 727 (2012)[43]
Most pass attempts per game, career: 39.88, 2009–present[44]
Most pass attempts per game, season: 45.44, 2012[45]
Most games with 40+ pass attempts in a season: 13 (2012)[46]
Fastest player to reach 15,000 career passing yards (53 GP)
Fastest player to reach 20,000 career passing yards (71 GP)
Fastest player to reach 25,000 career passing yards (90 GP)
Most passing yards in first 100 games
Most fourth quarter comebacks in a season (7, tied with Peyton Manning)
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AfroThunder396
[citation needed]
For reference...
This may explain some of the "legend" status to Marino and Elway. Yeah they didn't win as high of a % games during the regular season, but a higher % of their wins came by last ditch efforts in the 4th quarter, which fans see as superhuman or unbelievable wins. For guys like Big Ben, they don't have the #'s in 4th quarter comebacks because their teams had comfortable leads and were probably running the ball. I think it's so tough to compare QBs because of this.
This may explain some of the "legend" status to Marino and Elway. Yeah they didn't win as high of a % games during the regular season, but a higher % of their wins came by last ditch efforts in the 4th quarter, which fans see as superhuman or unbelievable wins. For guys like Big Ben, they don't have the #'s in 4th quarter comebacks because their teams had comfortable leads and were probably running the ball. I think it's so tough to compare QBs because of this.
According to wikipedia, Fran Tarkenton, not Big Ben, is 7th in wins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_wins_by_a_National_Football_League_starting_quarterback
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Depends, if it's a big regular season game I want nothing to do with Manning or Favre
What the Faulk
You'll know when you go
Yeah, why would anyone want a QB with the 2nd best winning percentage of all time and the most 4th quarter comebacks & game winning drives to go along with big, you know, passing numbers.
Voight
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JordanStaal#1Fan
Good catch. I was using footballdb but I just realized they have a disclaimer about wins pre-1981.
I'll try to put together a new list this afternoon.
