By: Christopher Rehman

Christopher Rehman — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:24:00 +0000

To further the discussion, in http://www.footballperspective.com/russell-wilson-and-other-quarterbacks-through-48-starts/ there are scatterplots for the first 48 games of a QBs NFL career. For Doug Flutie, those 48 are spread almost evenly between his pre- and post-CFL NFL stints (and his ‘newbie’ and ‘veteren’ ages, missing his ‘prime’ years). In those games, he was involved in about 66% of his teams’ offense and had above a 67% win percentage. He is quite comparable to John Elway in those plots. The only QBs starting since 2000 to beat him in both categories are Tom Brady and Russell Wilson; beat him on offence but tied in wins: Tony Romo and Andrew Luck; beat him on wins but not offense: Matt Ryan and Ben Roethlisberger. From 87 to 99, only Kurt Warner beat him on both, and while Favre, Peyton Manning, McNabb, Bledsoe and others had better offense, they had 2-9 fewer wins. And in his generation, only Dan Marino beat him on both counts. In the prior generation, no-one beat him on both counts, only Namath on offense. In all eras, only 15 of 159 QBs earned more wins, and 6 tied him; 50-55 were responsible for more offense, and only 5 beat him on both. He was a .500+ winner before he left and after he returned. His CFL play suggests that he would likely have been a game or two over five hundred on average if he were in the NFL. He is thus perhaps on the edge of HOF consideration, but definitely not merely a ‘good’ QB but in a higher tier.

By: Dave Keller

Dave Keller — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:40:00 +0000

Your analysis of Doug Flutie is 100 percent accurate.

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