Passer rating doesn't take into account things like game situation (score, down and distance, field position) or things like sacks, fumbles, and throwing distance. QBR has lots of flaws too, but it does take those things into account. Wilson had a passer rating of over 103 against the Jets, but his QBR was 19.6. When you consider that if he simply took every snap and spiked the ball into the turf, he would have ended up with a QBR of 39, you recognize that while Wilson hasn't been as awful as he was last year, he's still nowhere near justifying his $22M cap hit this year, and "pretty well" is not a very good description of how he's played. Yes, he's currently fourth in the league by passer rating, but he's 23rd by QBR, and who was that fumbling away the game down by just three and with plenty of time to at least get into field-goal range late in the fourth quarter on Sunday?
"Pretty well" compared to last year? Sure, but he was a bottom-three-in-the-league QB last season. That's an awfully low bar. This year, his performance could charitably be described as "nothing special," and when you consider the contract the Broncos gave him, you see why people like me who dislike the Broncos consider it "the gift that keeps on giving."
If I didn't still have loathing in my heart for the Broncos from the Seahawks' days in the AFC West, I would feel for Broncos fans, having to endure a team that has a QB who produces stats that his defenders can cherry-pick to argue that the problems are everyone's fault but his, but that's not winning nearly as much as those fans would expect given their QB's (cherry-picked) numbers. I remember what that's like. I understood the Seahawks' problems from 2016-2021 a lot better as the 2022 season progressed.
There are also things that simple stats can't really capture, like Wilson's continuing inability to read defenses, other than sometimes recognizing when the opposing defense is cover-zero blitzing.
