Top 5 Quarterbacks in NFL

Top 5 Quarterbacks in the NFL

Here I’m going to take a step back from baseball and talk a little bit about Football. Now many people will have different opinions on this one. But here are my top 5 Quarterbacks.

Number 1 Quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady

            Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are two very similar players, but also very different players. To start, Tom Brady is a 38 year old, 6’4” 225 pounds quarterback. Brady also has 16 seasons under his belt and 4 Superbowl rings. He’s now one of the few Quarterbacks with more than 400 touchdown passes (only people including Brady.) Now after we look at total yards, which he has 54,957 yards, which is more than 24,000 yards than Aaron Rodgers. But on the downside Tom has 71 total fumbles to Aaron Rodgers only 39 fumbles. As we look at the average yards per play its 7.46. In the end Tom Brady will only play for 2 more years max, because let’s face it he can’t take many hits anymore.

            Aaron Rodgers is a special guy, after being the back-up QB to legend Brett Favre. Rodgers had some huge shoes to fill. With only 11 years of experience he’s only thrown for just over 30,000 yards and 241 touchdowns. But, what’s very impressive is that he averages 8.22 yards per play and a completion rate of 66%, which is awesome. As I look through his statistics we can see his touch down to interception ratio started very high in his career with throwing 31 int. in his first seasons. But now throwing 27 in 5 seasons, his numbers are now dropping which is nice to see. But with having only winning one Superbowl is a little depressing, hopefully he can win a couple more. 

Number 3 Quarterback Philip Rivers

            I know what you’re thinking, really Philip Rivers. Yes, even though he plays for the Chargers he’s still been very consistent. I have to go with Philip Rivers as #3 not just because of how under-rated he is, but of how good he is at moving outside the pocket and staying in and finding his target early. Despite having an average QBR (Quarterback Rating) of 63.1. The only thing that’s depressing about
Rivers is the fact he’s thrown 127 interceptions, which is roughly 11 per year. Still is 11 per year, but interceptions are never good. But overall Philip averages 7.9 yards per play. Comparing that to Tom Brady who only averages about 7.50 yards per play. It’s okay that he’s thrown 127 interceptions because he plays for the San Diego Chargers. And the chargers are a terrible team.

Number 4 Quarterback Andrew Luck

            As you’re wondering why Luck is so far down on the list, it’s all because he isn’t playing too well. But after all he is Andrew Luck and in his past three years have been pretty good. Andrew Luck is a young lad, he’s only 26. Which is explains a lot of things. Coming in from Stanford I can understand why any coach would love to have him on their team.  He’s so far down on the list because of the crappy season that he’s having so far. In four years Luck has thrown just under 100 passes for an average of 25 a year. Not too bad at all. Luck’s average is 7.1 yards per play and when we look at the 3 quarterbacks above, he isn’t doing too bad. Looking now at his completion percentage of 58.3% which of a young guy like him isn’t too bad also with 14,355 total yards in his career. To add he has 52 total interceptions. All together Andrew Luck is a good quarterback, he just needs to eliminate the interceptions and trust his wide receivers more.

Number 5 Derek Carr

            Now Derek Carr is fairly new to the whole NFL game. Being from Fresno State, he wasn’t in a very good conference. But, he made to the big show and playing for a team that needs more help than their baseball team the Oakland A’s. Carr is showing some positive numbers. Just like his completion percentage is just over 60% and has a little over 5,000 yards in the air. Despite only having three wins last year, the Raiders now have four wins and 3 loses. If you would have told me that the Raiders would maybe have a winning season then I would have called BS. Derek Carr is probably one of the best young quarterbacks in the league. In a couple more years they could maybe make the playoffs. Carr is on the upswing and hopefully the team is buying what he’s selling.

Notable Mentions: Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Colin Kaepernick, and Andy Dalton

The Postseason: Cubs and Mets

                As we look at the New York Mets verses Los Angeles Dodgers games I saw a couple of recurring things. For starter I saw Clayton Kershaw choke yet again, Zach Greinke have another good outing. One the other hand the New York Mets have played fairly well, which was surprising.

                As we look at Game 2 the Mets got out to a rough start with a 3 up 3 down type of first inning. But so did the Dodgers. Things didn’t start to heat up until the top of the second inning when both Céspedes and Conforto hit homeruns against Zach Greinke. Which is impressive because there has been only 14 homeruns hit against him. As the game progressed, it was 2-0 for a while which made the game a little boring. Things didn’t start to heat up again until the bottom of the seventh inning. The real big turning point for the game was when Noah Syndergaard walked Enrique Hernandez and let Chase Utley single to right. But the best decision made by New York Mets was certainly taking out Syndergaard and putting in Bartolo Colon. See Colon is 42, he’s the oldest player in the MLB right now. And he’s dealing just nicely.

But the one play that really is getting heated was the Chase Utley and Ruben Tejada got into a little collision. Chase Utley was sliding into second base when they were trying to turn a double play. At that moment Chase Utley completely missed the base to take out Tejada in result he now has a broken leg. But in baseball, we’re taught to break up the double play, but not that badly. But Ruben Tejada is okay, which is good. As they were introducing players at the next game, the Announcer called out Chase Utley’s name everyone booed at him.

All and all it was a great game to watch.  

The Player Edition: The 48 Year Old Rookie.

When I talk about Will Ferrell, most people will say what a funny guy he is or how many movies he’s made. But I one of his greatest accomplishments is when he played on 10 different teams and playing 10 different positions all in one day.

Now let’s think about this, what’s the real reason he’s doing this? At first I wondered if this was just a huge publicity stunt. And there’s no doubt in my mind that it was. But it was all for a good cause. As I started to watch the documentary and the reviews of this I learned all of this was for “Cancer for College.” College for Cancer is an organization who offers college scholarships to children, teens, and young adults. In a matter of one day Ferrell helped donate one million dollars.

In this 2015 film, Will Ferrell embarks on a journey to play on ten different baseball team, while playing all ten positions. Now you’re thinking to yourself there isn’t ten positions in Baseball!! Ferrell also played Designated Hitter for the Chicago White Sox. The ten teams Will played for were Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and the San Francisco Giants. Now besides him playing all ten positions, my favorite parts are when he got traded from team to team. He threw these fits and threw Gatorade tubs in the dugout. But after that he’d go and change and go to the next team.

College for Cancer and Will Ferrell have been working together for years. As it explained in the documentary Ferrell and Craig Pollard (Founder of College for Cancer) have been friends for years. They’ve been trying to come up with a way to raise a large sum of money for kids. There final idea was a baseball game, which rapidly turned into Ferrell Takes the Field.

As I watched this documentary, I truly felt a part of the game as well. Even though Ferrell said “Was I the best player out there today? Maybe. Maybe? Can you all chant that with me? Maybe maybe maybe!!” At this point in the day it doesn’t matter how cocky he was, the point is that he raised over one million dollars. Pollard and Ferrell gave hope to kids everywhere. And in my book that’s all okay with me. I suggest that you Watch “Ferrell takes the Field.”

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Week 1: Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

     The NFL has many rivalries such as Seattle and San Francisco, Minnesota and Green Bay, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. But, the most notable rivalry in history is the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, dating back to 1921. All of this hype was started by the legendary Coach Vince Lombardi.  

      This rivalry means much more to these fans than what meets the eye. Since 1921 the Chicago Bears have lead the series 93-90-6 which is extremely close for a rivalry that's been going on for more than 90 years. With two of the largest names in the NFL battling it out at least twice in the regular season, Aaron Rogers in slowly putting the Green Bay Packers back on top. On the other hand Jay Cutler is slowly running the organization into the ground. Back in the 1970s and the early 1980s the Bears just dominated the rivalry. Players like William "The Fridge" Perry and Walter Payton were such dominate players, the Packers just couldn't preform in the draft like the Bears did. Now that Aaron Rogers is Quarterback he's now 11-4 all-time against the Bears. The only Quarterback to have a better record against Chicago is Brett Favre.         

      As we saw in the season opener we didn't know what to expect, with Chicago being 5-11 and the Packers being 13-5 last season. Both teams kept the game very close, which was very surprising. Even with the Packers not having Star Wide Receiver Jordy Nelson they still ended up pulling out the win. Surprising as it is, the Bears were the first to score with a field goal. It wasn't until the end of the first quarter that Green Bay finally scored. After a lot of back and forth play in the Second quarter is when the game was all tied up again at 10-10. The game didn't get interesting until the 3rd and 4th quarter, when the Packers started to rack-up the points against the Bears. Once Green Bay got on a roll Chicago couldn't stop them. Every time the Packers scored the Bears came right back with either a touchdown or a field goal, but the Bears just couldn't keep up with them. 

      This was the first game of the season for both teams. As everyone knows, first games never go well and this game was no different. But who knows, maybe one of them could be Superbowl champions. But until next time...





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