Paul Hackett Is A Genius

Last Sunday Chad Pennington, the New York Jets quarterback, registered a perfect score in the imperfect quarterback rating system. His single game passer's rating was 158.3. Since the rating system was adopted, only a handful of quarterbacks have achieved its highest mark. But of that group, Pennington is the only one to register a notch in the loss column. So what went wrong?

While Pennington and Co. efficiently scored 24 points on 34 offensive plays, their opponents, the Indianapolis Colts, ran 77 offensive plays. The Jets defense failed to get off the field; New York's defenders effectively took New York's offense out of the game. They were more effective in this endeavor than were the Colts. For the game, New York averaged .7058 points per play while the Colts averaged .4935. For a victory, the New York defense needed only to reduce the Colts' offensive plays by ten to 67. For the season, the Colts averaged 61.7 plays per game.

Sunday's contest was hardly an abomination. New York ranks 31st in both time of possession and number of offensive plays. While they are nearly dead last in each of those categories, they rank tenth in points per play. Had they generated an average number of plays, they could have increased points-scored by 2 and reduced points-allowed by 1.8 per game. In other words, if the Jets could have averaged 62 plays per game throughout the the season, they would have beaten Washington, NY Giants and the Colts to sit in playoff contention at 6-4.

Rank	Team	Plays	T.O.P.	Total Pts	Pts/Play
1	Kansas City	619	29:14	306	0.4943
2	Indianapolis	641	31:15	292	0.4555
3	Minnesota	627	31:05	269	0.4290
4	Green Bay	621	30:31	264	0.4251
5	Tennessee	624	33:17	265	0.4247
6	Seattle	614	28:13	248	0.4039
7	St. Louis	671	32:45	269	0.4009
8	Denver	647	32:49	247	0.3818
9	San Francisco	653	31:21	232	0.3553
10	New York (A)	568	26:37	197	0.3468
11	Baltimore	623	29:48	212	0.3403
12	New Orleans	634	30:40	212	0.3344
13	Cincinnati	654	31:29	210	0.3211
14	Atlanta	564	26:34	177	0.3138
15	Tampa Bay	642	31:14	201	0.3131
16	San Diego	583	27:27	182	0.3122
17	Philadelphia	601	28:08	187	0.3111
18	New England	635	30:18	196	0.3087
19	Carolina	643	30:49	198	0.3079
20	Washington	629	28:38	193	0.3068
21	Oakland	624	28:20	190	0.3045
22	Pittsburgh	633	30:11	190	0.3002
23	Miami	600	29:29	177	0.2950
24	Cleveland	608	31:26	179	0.2944
25	Houston	596	29:25	174	0.2919
26	Chicago	598	29:33	172	0.2876
27	Jacksonville	629	29:28	175	0.2782
28	Detroit	609	27:57	166	0.2726
29	Dallas	666	32:37	181	0.2718
30	Buffalo	609	29:53	159	0.2611
31	New York (N)	707	30:09	182	0.2574
32	Arizona	604	29:22	136	0.2252

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By Jeff (Wednesday November 19 2003 @ 09:08AM EST)

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