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Originally Posted by AzPaul
Most amazing stat in football: Matthew Stafford, in the middle of a 5 year, $135 million dollar contract, starts the season with a 6-52 record against winning teams.
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Losing teams over time almost never do well in stats vs. Winning teams. A single stat has a way of hanging one or two people out to dry when the team dynamic needs to be understood.
I didn’t look at the PF vs PA numbers but - Stafford is the fourth quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 5,000 yards in a single season, being one of three players to do it in 2011, and is the fastest player in NFL history to reach 30,000 passing yards (109 games). Stafford also holds the NFL record for the most comeback wins in a season, recording eight in the 2016 season.
As for the team dynamic...
The Lions went 0–16 during the 2008 NFL season, the year before Stafford was drafted #1 by them. Since then they have had 5 seasons in the winner’s column over the 10 years Stafford has been there. In the 10 years prior to his arrival, the Lions were in the winner’s column just once.
They are also one of four current teams, and the only one in the NFC, to have never played in the Super Bowl.
So is it QB or is it team?
But yes - interceptions will help people go negative when you ink the most lucrative contract.
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