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(QBER is short for Quarterback Efficiency Rating, a more comprehensive, easily understood rating system that I devised to place the emphasis where it belongs—the ability of a quarterback to advance the ball, avoid negative plays, and score touchdowns in comparison to his peers. A rating of 100.0 is the league average.)
Death, taxes and Peyton Manning in an upright position.
Indianapolis Colts veteran Peyton Manning is atop the QBER charts for the third week this season, but his gaudy 156.5 mark doesn't tell the whole story.
Even more remarkable is the fact that, every time Manning drops back to pass, there’s a 98.6 percent chance that he’ll throw the ball. The cleanest quarterback in football totaled three sacks and scrambles in 218 pass plays this season. Heck, the Pope doesn’t get that kind that of protection at the Vatican these days.
In fact, Manning hasn’t been taken down with the ball in his hands since Week Two, a period in which he attempted 154 passes in four games.
Can that be why Manning has time to do all those television commercials?
As for baby brother Eli, he doesn't have it so bad, either. In 210 pass plays, the New York Giants signal-caller has been sacked only a half-dozen times, nearly 50 percent better than the league average.
The QBER leaders through the Week Seven of the regular season:
1. P. Manning 156.5
2. Orton 140.1
3. Schaub 139.3
4. McNabb 138.7
5. Brees 137.2
6. Rodgers 134.5
7. Favre 125.14
8. Brady 125.13
9. Rivers 122.89
10. Flacco 122.87
11. Ryan 122.8
12. Romo 118.9
13. E. Manning 116.3
14. Hasselbeck 114.9
15. Roethlisberger 114.7
16. Palmer 113.4
17. Warner 105.6
18. Hill 103.7
19. Cassel 99.1
20. Cutler 96.4
21. Wallace 89.1
22. Garrard 86.2
23. Edwards 82.1
24. Campbell
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