Quote:I would take Blake in a league redraft over at least 25 of the other starting QBs in this league right now if not more. That being said, you're not being honest with yourself by looking at statistics only. Not all interceptions are created equal. Some are harmless (i.e. Bombs that are intercepted that equal a punt), some are bad and some are really bad/devastating (i.e. Throwing pick 6's or INTs deep in your own territory). I was too young to watch marino's early years, but what I do remember later in his career is he didn't make the devastating mistakes that Blake has made too often through his career so far. Comparing interception percentages without using the eye test is at best naive and at worst dishonest. Go look up percentage chance of winning when you give up a defensive TD without getting one back, it's not good. (Blake is responsible for several this year). Also, Blake is tied for the league worst for INTs inside your own 40 with Peyton Manning with 9 (meaning the other team is essentially in scoring position if the INT didn't result in a pick 6 which 3 of the 9 of Blake's did).


Pro football reference wouldn't let me go back further than '94, but using your two examples of Marino and Favre I found the following info: Marino threw a total of 9 INTs inside his own 40 in 4 seasons from 94 thru 97. He threw 7 in his final season in '99. '98 was reporting no one in the league threw an INT inside their own 40 so I'm assuming something was wrong with the site regarding that season.


Favre threw 9 or more INTs inside his own 40 four separate times from '94 thru his final season in 2010 (excluding '98). In '99 he threw 10 inside his 40 and the packers won 8 games. In '05 he threw 13 inside his 40 and the packers won 4 games. In '08 he threw 10 inside his 40 and the Jets won 9 games and finally in 2010 he threw 9 inside his own 40 and the Vikings won 6 games.


Blake had 9 last year and he has 9 this year with three games to go.


Does this stat by itself prove anything? No, but there does appear to be a correlation.


You can want Gus gone, that's ok. But you can't keep holding up Blake as God and Gus as the bumbling idiot "backed up" by your narrow grasp of statistics. Your QB putting your defense in bad spots matters. Hopefully today was the beginning of Blake throwing less INTs and especially back breaking INTs. It's amazing how everything can appear wonderful and rosey, even a bad defense like ours, when you get up big on a team like we did today. And actually the defense (Branch specifically) changed the whole complexion of this game with the sack fumble.