cage Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Given all the discussion on QBs and in light of Alex Smith trades / extension I thought I would take a look at where current/active QBs rank in regard to playoff record, wins and appearances. My trigger for this was an article questioning the big extension for a QB with a 2-5 record in the playoffs, which by this analysis puts him in the top half of the league and ranks him at #10 when looking at the number of years he's led his team to the playoffs. This also brings into light how difficult a task it has been to find that franchise QB. Only 7 QBs (22%) have a long-standing winning record in the playoffs, that number rises to 31% when adding Bottles, Foles from this year and including Kaepernick as potentially active. Stat % Multiple Years (2+) 56% Multiple Wins (2+) 47% All Winning Record 31% Long-standing Winning 22% Rank QB Wins Losses Years in PO 1 Tom Brady 27 9 15 2 Ben Rothliesberger 13 7 10 3 Aaron Rodgers 10 7 9 4 Joe Flacco 10 5 6 5 Eli Manning 8 4 6 6 Russell Wilson 8 4 5 7 Drew Brees 7 6 7 8 Matt Ryan 4 6 6 9 Philip Rivers 4 5 5 10 Colin Kaepernick 4 2 2 11 Cam Newton 3 4 4 12 Andrew Luck 3 3 3 13 Alex Smith 2 5 5 14 Nick Foles 2 1 2 15 Blake Bortles 2 1 1 16 Carson Plamer 1 3 3 17 Marcus Mariota 1 1 1 18 Case Keenum 1 1 1 19 Andy Dalton 0 4 4 20 Matthew Stafford 0 3 3 21 Kirk Cousins 0 2 2 22 Dak Prescott 0 1 1 23 Jared Goff 0 1 1 24 Tyrod Taylor 0 1 1 25 Derek Carr 0 0 0 26 Jameis Winston 0 0 0 27 Ryan Tannehill 0 0 0 28 Ryan Fitzpatrick 0 0 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Since, by definition, every QB but one finishes the playoffs each year with a loss you almost have to discount that some way. Put another way, the number of losses is pretty close to the number of years they've gotten their team to the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cage Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 36 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said: Since, by definition, every QB but one finishes the playoffs each year with a loss you almost have to discount that some way. Put another way, the number of losses is pretty close to the number of years they've gotten their team to the playoffs. Exactly,... so Alex Smith becomes a top 10 QB by that criteria. Worthy of a substantial extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da webster guy Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 So Bortles has a better winning percentage in the playoffs than Big Ben. Despite his 87 passing yards against us..... I think this means we need to draft crappy qb's from here on out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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