Flacco Best Big-Game QB In NFL Today

[cravnravn]

Statistical proficiency always trumps emotion. You can win with proficiency and emotion, and you can win with just proficiency. But nobody wins purely on emotion, not in the NFL. The statistical signatures of victory are so easy to identify in the NFL and Flacco's Ravens are a near-perfect case study.

 

The reality is that the Ravens are rolling because Flacco is rolling, and right now he’s a giant avalanche statistical awesomeness trucking down the hill of big-game excellence and right into the Superdome.

 

Here’s Flacco’s performances in his last seven postseason games, a period during which the Ravens are 5-2, have reached consecutive AFC title games and now the Super Bowl for the first time in 13 seasons.

 

There are a couple key numbers. The first is 15-2, an incredible TD-INT ratio that spells victory in any era by any quarterback. He’s topped a 95 rating in six of those seven games, and 100 in four of seven.

 

Now, here’s what’s most interesting statistical signature: Flacco has thrown just two INT in these seven games. No coincidence that it’s the two games that Baltimore lost.

The Ravens are 7-0 in the playoffs when Flacco does not throw a pick.

The Ravens are 1-4 in the playoffs when Flacco throws a pick. The lone win with a pick came against New England in the 2009 postseason, on a day when Flacco completed just four passes for 34 yards.

 

That’s how the NFL works: you lose games when your quarterback makes mistakes; you win games when he does not, especially in the postseason.

And right now the Ravens are the NFL’s reigning postseason dynamo because their quarterback does not make mistakes – while combining that care for the football with a devastating downfield passing attack (awesome 9.2 YPA here in the 2012 postseason).

 

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/content/cup-statistical-joe-flacco-best-big-game-qb-nfl-today/21071/

 

 

[RavenMad]

Flacco is the only QB in the league this season to not throw an INT when throwing the ball further than 20 yards downfield. We may hate his constant overthrows but he is putting it in a spot where his guy comes down with it or it's incomplete.

[thundercleetz]

Once Flacco wins the Super Bowl then we can anoint him the best Big-Game QB.

[cravnravn]

I love the chart (thats in the link) Has last 7 playoff games he's been off the charts..And if Evans catches the dam ball, we are REPEAT CHAMPIONS