I think if people viewed sacks, punts, and failed completions just as badly as interceptions and incompletions, I believe more people would be in favor of his style. I think many fans have been fed by analyst that yards per game and touchdowns are king, completion % is a good measure of accuracy, interceptions are the plague, sacks are the offensive lines fault, and passer rating is the best catch all metric despite there being better alternatives for nearly 15 years.
Correct. One thing I will give the Trent doubters some benefit on is that his stats are very difficult to understand, especially with knowledge only at a casual level. I should've addressed this in the actual article, but it went past me and I'm glad you mentioned it.
Trent is not built for passer rating. Passer rating rewards four things: Passing yards per attempt (which Trent leads the league in 2002), touchdowns per attempt (which Trent also leads the league in 2002, but as I discussed he could've led the league by much more than he did very very easily), completion percentage (which is entirely arbitrary. I don't know why it rewards this, but Trent falls short), but what kills Trent is that the punishment for interceptions per attempt is far too high.
Passer rating is a good stat, but it's more or less an augmented version of TD-INT ratio, which is what leads to it thinking Brad Johnson (22-6) was better than Trent (26-13) in 2002, despite getting about 600 fewer passing yards in approximately the same number of attempts. In real life, Brad Johnson is not even close to Trent, but these two players sit firmly in the blind spot of this stat.
If Trent gets as many TDs as he would have if this were a normal offence (about 33 or 34), his passer rating shoots all the way up to 97.5. This feels silly that it values touchdown passes this much.
In general, Trent's statistical pattern of fantastic results with very low success rates is not a common pattern at all. It reminds me of 2023 Jordan Love if Jordan were significantly better. Generally, top of the league guys do not play like this. Michael Vick plays like this. Perhaps this very unique statistical profile is another reason people just don't get it with Trent.
Jeff Garcia is a contemporary of Trent's with very similar problems for very similar reasons.
I think if people viewed sacks, punts, and failed completions just as badly as interceptions and incompletions, I believe more people would be in favor of his style. I think many fans have been fed by analyst that yards per game and touchdowns are king, completion % is a good measure of accuracy, interceptions are the plague, sacks are the offensive lines fault, and passer rating is the best catch all metric despite there being better alternatives for nearly 15 years.
Correct. One thing I will give the Trent doubters some benefit on is that his stats are very difficult to understand, especially with knowledge only at a casual level. I should've addressed this in the actual article, but it went past me and I'm glad you mentioned it.
Trent is not built for passer rating. Passer rating rewards four things: Passing yards per attempt (which Trent leads the league in 2002), touchdowns per attempt (which Trent also leads the league in 2002, but as I discussed he could've led the league by much more than he did very very easily), completion percentage (which is entirely arbitrary. I don't know why it rewards this, but Trent falls short), but what kills Trent is that the punishment for interceptions per attempt is far too high.
Passer rating is a good stat, but it's more or less an augmented version of TD-INT ratio, which is what leads to it thinking Brad Johnson (22-6) was better than Trent (26-13) in 2002, despite getting about 600 fewer passing yards in approximately the same number of attempts. In real life, Brad Johnson is not even close to Trent, but these two players sit firmly in the blind spot of this stat.
If Trent gets as many TDs as he would have if this were a normal offence (about 33 or 34), his passer rating shoots all the way up to 97.5. This feels silly that it values touchdown passes this much.
In general, Trent's statistical pattern of fantastic results with very low success rates is not a common pattern at all. It reminds me of 2023 Jordan Love if Jordan were significantly better. Generally, top of the league guys do not play like this. Michael Vick plays like this. Perhaps this very unique statistical profile is another reason people just don't get it with Trent.
Jeff Garcia is a contemporary of Trent's with very similar problems for very similar reasons.