Peter King’s QB Rankings
In Peter Kings column from yesterday, he ranks the top 32 Quarterbacks in the league, and his placement of Chad Pennington (not to mention Jon Kitna within the top ten) makes me scratch my head. All that really matters though is how Football Outsiders ranks QBs after last season, which has Pennington above Kitna.
Peter King — Ranking all 32 QBs
Football Outsiders — Quarterbacks 2006
5 Responses to Peter King’s QB Rankings
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SackDance99 says:
Another flaw in King’s analysis, as pointed out by Bassett, is his love for John Kitna. He does not evaluate Kitna for his (mediocre, at best) talents as a QB, but rather the fact that he’s in a QB-friendly Mike Martz offense, where any decent QB could roll up 4,000 yards and 25 TDs. Put Chad in a dome, where he excels, and in the Martz system and Chad would battle for the MVP. King seems to forget how Kitna could not hold the lead at home against the Steelers in the playoffs in 2004 and he certainly had great weapons with the Bengals. He was incompetent in that game, which was one of the biggest of his career, when his team needed him to come up big after Palmer’s injury. Ranking Kitna in the top 10 is a joke.
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Harlan Lachman says:
The proof that this is tripe is that he has Rex Grossman rated so high ;-)
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billvv says:
King uses no statistical basis for any of his choices, so there’s no way to argue. No Jet on any list of anything comes higher than midway. WR tandems, you can’t find but three better than the Jet’s Coles and Cotchery, yet you will not find them on any list. I just shake my head in disbelief that nothing the Jets do seems to be good enough to be recognized.
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jeff i says:
peter king picked the dolphins to go to the super bowl last year. enough said. just bc you are good enough at kissing a*s to access to high level NFL people doesn’t mean you know the game. peter king is consistently wrong in his predictions and analysis.
Here are the flaws in King’s article.
1) He looks at the last 2 years, which would of course punish Pennington (among others) because he didn’t start for most of the 2005 season. The problem with this one is that he is haphazard as to who he applies this standard to. Some of the players that have not started for 2 complete seasons are rated higher or lower based on his gut feelings, not a basis of statistics.
2) He also does not consider the players around a QB in figuring out his “intangibles”. To me, Pennington should have a higher intangibles number that 6 based on what he did with that offense last year. Let’s face it, early in the season the offense was being held together with duct tape and wires. No RB, rookies on the O-Line, no deep threat or true 3rd receiver.
3) He still shows his Patriots bias. Let’s face it, Brady is King’s binky and he can do no wrong. Yes, Manning passed him on King’s list, but he really didn’t have a choice as the statistics back Manning vs. Brady. And of course it follows that any Jets player cannot hold a candle to their respective Patriots counterpart. I’m not saying Pennington is better than Brady, but I do think King’s love affair with the Patriots affects his judgment when it comes to evaluating Patriots rivals.