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NFL Top 10 Quarterbacks through Week 16 – Christmas Edition

Week 16 showed us again two faces of the Quarterback performances. I.e. great performances by Brees, Rivers, Pennington and Peyton Manning and on the other hand this non-performance by Kurt Warner, who might have played himself out of NFL MVP contention…

Rank	Quarterback	Score	last week	comments
1	Drew Brees	6767	(1 – 6533)	The inapt Lions just came right for Brees to defend his #1 position of the Top 10 NFL Quarterbacks. 75% completion rate for an average of 8.8 yards per attempt and 2 TD, no interceptions of fumbles – did not even got sacked. The only negative 3 rushes for -3 yards came from the final 3 kneel downs – Comment: Kneel downs shouldn’t count as rushes in the official stats – will have to count them out for the 2009 ranking system
2	Philip Rivers	6558	(3 – 6258)	Who would have believed after week 13 that the Chargers at 4-8 with 3 games behind would still have a chance to win their division – now also due to the great performance of Rivers over the last 3 games, they do. He’s also the only QB in the NFL still with a 3-digit passer rating at 104.0. Last week beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with 4 TD, no interception, no fumble and just 1 sack, 67.7% completion rate for 9.3 per attempt moved him up to position #2, and should the Chargers win over the broncos with a convincing performance by Rivers he might be my NFL MVP!
3	Chad Pennington	6533	(4- 6200)	Quietly behind all the fuss about the “Wildcat-Formation” Pennington established himself as one of the top QBs in the league. 76.5% completion rate for 3 TD and only 1 interception, no sacks or fumbles and his 2 rushes for -2 were also just kneel-downs.
4	Peyton Manning	6117	(7 – 5817)	Finally Manning shows what he’s capable of: 85.3% completion rate with 10.7 yards per attempt and 3 TD, no interception, no sack, no fumble and a gigantic 140.7 passer rating moved him into #4 position – just his early season flatness hurts him in moving further up the rankings.
5	Kurt Warner	5867	(2 – 6267)	What? 33.3% completion rate for a total of 30 yards (1.7 yards per attempt) and a passer rating of 42.4. Only good: no interceptions, no fumbles and just 1 sack for minus 7. Anyway he dropped from being the hardest challenger of Brees all the way down to #5. And his NFL MVP ambitions, well, IMHO: Gone!
6	Tony Romo	5783	(5 – 6117)	Again a loss vs a AFC-North opponent with a way below average performance: just 53.3% completion for 252 yards and 5.6 yards per attempt. Only good: 2 TD, 2 rushes for 2 yards but also 2 interceptions and 2 sacks and 1 fumble.
7	Matt Ryan	5633	(8 – 5700)	Ryan keeps winning enough to stay in the contention of making the playoffs his about average performance, with 54.2% completion rate for just 134 yards and 5.6 yards per attempt with 1 TD, no interceptions and 3 rushes for 2 yards allowed him to stay in front of Schaub and pass the dropping Rodgers.
8	Matt Schaub	5567	(9 – 5667)	At first glance his stats don’t look that bad (255 yards passing, 7.1 per attempt, 2 rushes for 10 yards) but no TD, one interception and 3 sacks combined with just 52.8% completion rate, were just good enough to pass the falling Rodgers.
9	Aaron Rodgers	5550	(6 – 5850)	The packers keep on losing – even though you can’t blame Rodgers for Crosby missing one field goal attempt and having the winning FG attempt blocked. But the loss combined with 2 rushes for -6 yards and no big plays let him drop down to #9
10	Jay Cutler	5417	(10 – 5617)	Don’t the Broncos want to win the AFC West? Well, Cutlers performance seems to suggest just that: great 359yards, 8.0 yards per attempt, but no TD, 1 interception, 1 sack, and only 55.6% completion rate – but on the other hand he had 8 rushes for 30 yards and 2 TD – that way he could at least defend his listing in the Top 10 NFL Quarterbacks.