Jimmy James
You sit on a throne of lies!
Originally posted by uncle_joe
A backup QB could come in on the finaol play of the game and win the game for his team, earning himself the victory, as a repky to your 'laughable' statement.
Actually, it seems that the QB who starts the game is the one who gets credited with W/L according to whoever determines this crap. This is why Brian is said to have gone 3-2 this year even though Jay came in and made the difference in the Redskins game.
As to your other points: Saying that guys like Marino and Favre get credit for wins is like saying that we should count wins for Pedro and Clemens but not for the Eric Miltons and Mike Maroths of the world. It's far too arbitrary a system to even suggest.
I'm not going to fault Dilfer for the loss to Miami in Baltimore's championship season because Tony Banks was the QB at that point. It's clear that the switch from Banks to Dilfer was what took this good team and made them into a Super Bowl calibur team, so I have absolutely no problem with crediting Dilfer with the wins he got. Look at the following year, too. Grbac wasn't so good, was he?
You're always going to be able to point out a game like the Patriots-Dolphins game and ask whether a QB deserves credit for that one just like I'm going to always be able to ask if Billy Koch really deserved a win for pitching an inning and blowing a save during the June 28 game against the Cubs. Sometimes, statistics are wacky. Teams threw away from Darrell Green for most of his career, and this inflated the interception numbers for the corner who started opposite him because QBs felt it was less risky to throw into tight coverage on that side of the field than to even consider throwing to Green's side. Do we say that that guy didn't deserve his interceptions? No.
I think your mind was made up on this issue before you ever created this thread, and I know my mind has been made up by participating in this thread. I highly doubt you're going to find the above any more persuasive than I found what you said to be...