Ranking the QB Situations

[soxfan121]

Part 2
Now with 100% more explanation. 
 

It is important to understand that this exercise is not a ranking of starting quarterbacks; if it were, in Part 1, I would not have put Tony Romo at #4. Romo is, even at 34 and coming off back surgery, a very good starting quarterback, albeit one with some known and frustrating issues in “big” games. However, if you had to win one game tomorrow, Romo would be a better choice than all of the quarterbacks we will discuss in Part 2, Part 3, and even some in Part 4 of the Quarterback Situation Rankings.
 
This is, however, a ranking of the entire quarterback depth chart for all 32 teams. There are plenty of articles ranking quarterbacks. The purpose of this exercise to try to think more about roster construction and team planning than about starting quarterback evaluation per se. While the ability of the starting quarterback is a factor, we are more interested in what happens if that starter is, for instance, lost to injury. There are better, more accurate, ways to look at quarterbacks whoplay games. 
 

 

[Bosoxen]

I have a small nit. That EJ Manuel play was screwed, regardless of what he did. If he had lofted the pass, as you suggested, the cornerback breaking on the play either picks the ball off or kills the running back.

Granted, giving up the touchdown is just about as bad a result as you can have (and there's no guarantee the corner doesn't do the same as Watt), but his biggest mistake was panicking in the face of JJ Watt and not throwing the ball to a safety valve on the other side of the field, or throwing it away.