Thunderhawk":1kqtfpy4 said:
Ultimately a QB needs to be judged on point production. All offensive stats are mostly worthless if they don't produce points. If a QB goes 5/25 but the 5 completed passes were TDs that is better than 25/25 for 400 yards 1 TD. Russ is simply not leading the offense to enough TDs.
Game 1: 1 TD
Game 2: 3 TD
Game 3: 4 TD
Game 4: 1 TD
Game 5: 2 TD
This is a pretty lame argument since there are so many factors that go into scoring Tds, but even going with your premise that an elite QB needs to score a lot of TDs, it's pretty clear that RW matches up well with what the other top QBs have done so far this season, if not better (of course Manning aside who is having one of the best years of any QB ever)
Aaron Rodgers: 4,3,1,1 (152 total pass attempts, 1 TD per 16.8 attempted passes)
Matt Stafford: 2,2,2,1,1 (196 attempts, 1 TD per 24.5 attempts)
Matt Ryan: 2,2,2,2 (173 attempts, 1 TD per 21.6 attempts)
Drew Brees: 2,4,3,1,2 (201 attempts, 1 TD per 16.8 attempts)
Andrew Luck: 2,1,0,2,2 (156 attempts, 1 TD per 22.3 attempts)
Tom Brady: 0,2,2,1,2 (196 attempts, 1 TD per 28 attempts)
Russel Wilson: 2,1,4,3,1 (
127 attempts, 1 TD per 15.9 attempts)
RW's numbers of TDs per game are in line with all of those top QBs, and when you consider that Seattle is a run-first offense with a low number of passes in a game, you see RW has one of the best TD per # of pass attempts this season so far.