Yesterday, my advisor Tatt Mareeco forwarded around an article by Jason Whitlock with the note, "Obviously Bevormo won't like this."I read the article - which was Whitlock's ranking of, in his view, the 10 greatest QBs of all-time - and noted immediately that the Great One, Dan Fouts, was not on the list.
Obviously I couldn't let this go without a fight. Fouts needed a champion.
A little research was in order.
Taking a look a Pro-Football Reference.com, I found that Fouts ranks right around the 10 spot among QBs in a number of major statistical categories. To wit:
career passes completed - 10th
career pass attempts - 10th
career passing yards - 9th
career passing TDs - 12th
career passer rating - 54th (F this stupid stat, though Phil Rivers is currently #3 all time)
career passing yards/game - 8th (a few guys ahead of him are still active so in theory he could gain here)
career pass completion % - 47th (whatever, he was a gunslinger in different era)
career passes intercepted - 12th
career sacked - 26th (quick release! quick release!)
Without doing an in-depth comparison, and factoring in his tendency for dagger playoff picks, I'd say Fouts is right in the 6-12 range all-time, depending on how you adjust for differences between the eras, playoff success, etc.
Of course, of the QBs never to reach a Super Bowl, he's most definitely #1 (sorry Warren Moon fans), which makes everything in life suck just a little bit more.
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