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Tom Brady Goes 21-for-25, Achieves Perfect Rating

Written by Nick Meyer
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
{mosimage}Something about that just doesn't sound right. As if people had trouble understanding the NFL's QB system before, along comes Tom Brady to throw another wrench into the system. This past Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, Brady completed 21-of-25 passes for 354 yards and six touchdowns to lead his Patriots to an easy 49-28 win. That's all well and good, and it was an incredible performance, but it doesn't account for the strange fact that his game was considered to be absolutely perfect by the NFL's quarterback rating system. Which of course sounds cool on paper but doesn't answer the real question on everybody's mind: just how exactly can a game in which a QB misses four passes be considered perfect? If somebody were to come up to me on the street and ask me what I thought the perfect game for QB would be, I would probably say something like this: 10-for-10, 990 yards, 10 touchdowns. Nothing but 99-yard touchdown passes all day long qualifies as perfect for me. In a way, it's kind of like what happens in the Slam Dunk Contest at NBA All-Star Weekend, where the judges give out scores of 10 to undeserving, good-but-not-great (and certainly not perfect) slam dunks but then end up looking foolish when another player steps up and throws down a dunk that wows the crowd and makes the previous dunk look ugly and simple by comparison. Regardless, Brady's performance was definitely one for the ages. If you compare it to other great regular-season performances, it probably stands up quite well. Six touchdowns is a remarkable feat against any team, even one as bad as the 2007 Miami Dolphins. But to call it perfect just doesn't leave enough room for an even greater performance to get the credit it deserves in the future. It just doesn't make much sense to me. Of course, the entire NFL QB rating system doesn't make much sense to anybody but mathematicians (or BCS computer programmers), so maybe I should just go ahead and take their word for it anyway. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Website Title Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.
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