about 3 years ago I made a video on here ranking the 10 best quarterback seasons in NFL history I went and looked back at it and there were some things that I myself didn't agree on and I felt like I needed to make a new video and a new version of it rearranging some of the rankings that fit my criteria now for example I am placing more emphasis on playoff performance than I did in my previous videos I also am once again going to be using my total defensive adjusted value stat which I'm going to explain and go over right after this before I begin I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of today's video factor factor makes meeting your nutrition goals easier than ever by delivering fresh never Frozen dietitian approved meals right to your doorstep their team of gourmet chefs create each meal using only ingredients with Integrity to help you feel your best all day long factors delicious ready to eat meals make eating better every day easy wherever tomorrow takes you be ready with 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line that ends with an adjusted net yards per attempt of 2.42 Marino had an 8.67 adjusted net yards per attemp that's a difference of plus 6.5 which is monstrous then you multiply that because he drop back 30 times you multiply 30 by 6.25 and you get 187.5 that means that Marino's performance generated 187.5 value and this is just one example but this is I guess the best way that I can try and get you to understand when looking at regular season games I do not use playoff games I try to keep it regular season only but when I am looking at how a quarterback performed in a playoff game I do include both the regular season and how his playoff opponents perform defensively in their other Playoff games as well for a larger sample size let me just give a random example like in 2011 Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons went oneand done in the playoffs versus the New York Giants they didn't play the Giants in the regular season but I would take Ryan's adjusted net yards per attempt from that playoff game compare it to the Giants regular season and the three playoff games that the Giants played after they beat Atlanta which came against Green Bay San Francisco and the Patriot so that that's just a short little explanation I really am driving this home because it is important and it will help you understand a lot more of this video and plus I think it's a pretty cool stat it's not a mainstream stat I think for the most part it sums up pretty well how a quarterback performed and it also factors in automatically the era and how good of a defense the quarterback was playing against I'm not saying that it's the end all Beall but I do think it gives you a pretty accurate description of how a quarterback played but you're not here for numbers and stuff you're here for clips and commentary so let's begin with number 10 you're probably wondering why at the end there I was showing a lot of clips of 2018 Patrick Mahomes and that's because 2018 Patrick Mahomes does no longer appear on my top 10 list in this Edition the first video I made was made in 2021 since then he's won two more Super Bowls and I felt that his 2022 MVP season deserved a spot albeit not the most high spot in a vacuum I think that he was probably a better player into 2018 but his postseason numbers and just reality do matter unfortunately and it's not like he was just a game manager in 20122 he threw for over 5200 yards in 17 games 41 touchdowns 12 picks had a 105.2 pass rating again I think his regular season no question in 2018 was better but the playoffs are where he got the edge especially in the Super Bowl where his defense allowed 35 points although they did give him a fumble six but he still ended up in the postseason throwing for over 700 yards seven touchdowns no interceptions a couple game-winning drives he finished with a pass rating of 114 14.7 to win his second Super Bowl ring which already feels like old news because he's won another ring and another Super Bowl MVP since then oh yeah did I say Super Bowl MVP yeah 2022 Mahomes is also notable because it broke the MVP curse he won MVP and Super Bowl MVP in the same season for the first time since number nine on my list 1999 Kurt Warner I had Warner's 99 season ranked a little bit higher in my original Edition and there are some reasons for that one was the fact that the 1999 Rams had a historically easy schedule but to their credit they took advantage of it and also Warner's regular season was spectacular but it wasn't quite the same caliber as some of the other seasons on this list in the regular season we all know the story by now Trent green got hurt he was supposed to be the big payday quarterback that the Rams acquired he gets hurt Warner comes in and becomes a folk hero wins the MVP Super Bowl MVP but the Rams honestly were lucky to even be in that Super Bowl which is another reason why he sits at number nine and not higher because in the NFC championship game he threw three picks versus the Buccaneers and had a dreadful 56.2 rating now even when you adjust for how good the Buccaneers defense was Warner had a negative value in that game although he did have a clutch game-winning touchdown pass to riie PE then in the Super Bowl he did his work throwing for 400 yards and two touchdowns overall in the postseason he finished with a 100 pass rating on the dot to win his only Championship still despite only winning one ring he is one of the best postseason quarterbacks in NFL history number eight 1994 Steve Young on the surface if you look at just the accolades Steve Young's 94 season should probably rank higher on this list because he won MVP he won the Super Bowl and he won Super Bowl MVP with amazing stats but much like with Warner he gets penalized because the 49ers were absolutely loaded they had a week schedule and because because in the postseason he really wasn't that great until the Super Bowl where he famously threw six touchdown passes which is still a record that stands today versus the Chargers the other thing is is that he really really got off to a slow start over the first six games of the Season before finally picking it up and going on a rampage over the last 10 weeks or so where he caught his Groove young really wasn't much of a value Merchant he was an efficiency guy and also the fact that he basically got handed the keys to a Ferrari when he took over from Montana does do him a bit but throwing six touchdown passes in the Super Bowl and defeating the Cowboys in the mid90s with help from his defense deserves props it's just weird that this was the only time he was able to really put together a good postseason as a starting quarterback number seven 2011 Aaron roders this is probably the biggest example of me placing more emphasis on playoff performance than I did in my original Edition because regular season wise 2011 Aaron roders is probably one of the two or three best regular seasons ever the consistency specific specifically over the first eight or nine weeks or so was just unbelievable now there are a couple things that Rogers had going for him this was 2011 the lockout season where stats were up all across the league defenses took a bit to adjust but still his numbers in the regular season were Bonkers in 15 games he threw for 5600 yards 45 touchdowns just six interceptions had the still-standing single season passing passer rating record of 122.5 and had 1,800 total defensive adjusted value in 15 games he probably or he could have possibly broken 2,000 which is like the Holy Grail had he played in week 16 the famous Matt Flynn six touchdown game but we get to those pesky playoffs and really nobody would know it at the time but this was fresh off of rogers's first and only Super Bowl win and the hiccup versus the Giants where they got blown out at home where Rogers was not great despite some drops going 26 of 46 for 264 yards two touchdowns one in garbage time he took four sacks he had a lost fumble overall his defensive adjusted value was A- 49 by far the worst of his season but you didn't really need that stat to let you know that it's just puzzling that this 15 win team and I know that the 15 win Packers in 2011 didn't have a great defense which also made rogers's MVP season all the more incredible in real time but as time went on and the larger sample size we see with Aaron Rogers losing in the playoffs 2011 goes down as one of his biggest failures and one of his biggest missed opportunities so it has to be at the bottom part of the top 10 here but still just from an eye test perspective this is probably number one or two number six 2016 Matt Ryan I have no idea how to rank 2016 Matt Ryan because first of all when you think of Matt Ryan you think of a very good quarterback you think of a hall very good quarterback you're not thinking about Montana or Payton or Rogers or Brady or Breeze he he was never really in that tier of quarterbacks except for one season which was 2016 now when we look at the success the quarterbacks have had under Kyle Shanahan at after 2016 obviously we all know Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the Falcons in 2016 when Ryan had this ridiculously consistent and great season R threw for nearly 5,000 yards 38 touchdowns and seven interceptions with a stellar 117.1 passer rating maybe some of that was Juiced a bit who knows but really 2016 Matt Ryan and in my last video my most recent video I made about the five best playoff runs by a quarterback that ended without a championship Ryan was the easy number one because he some got even better statistically in the playoffs this wasn't an example of him falling off and his regular season was amazing but this story you know how the story ends in the two conference games Atlanta went 11 and5 and got the second seed it's ironic that despite Ryan's incredible historic season the Falcons still lost five games because of course including one on a two-point conversion interception which is just so Falcons it should have been a forewarning of how it would end but he was a absolute monster versus the Seahawks and the best game really I think of his career in the NFC Championship game versus the Packers to send the Falcons to their second Super Bowl in franchise history and then we all know what happened even in the Super Bowl in his worst moment his stats were phenomenal 17 for 23 284 yards two touchdowns but you see I think this is a good example of why my defensive adjusted value stat is important because if you look at the raw numbers you would say oh Matt Ryan had one of the best games of the season in the Super Bowl versus I mean 144.000 pass rating just unbelievable he had a great adjusted net yards per attempt but if you really really look at it his Super Bowl he had still very very good 124.5 value but that would have ranked ninth for him on the season in terms of his most value added games so that kind of gives you the feeling and encapsulates better in my opinion the feeling of Ryan's Super Bowl performance which was it was good it was even very good but it wasn't great and it wasn't great enough to get the job done then you have the other things that have all the that was out of his control but there were a lot of things within his control in the final 17 minutes of the Super Bowl that he could have done like not taking a sack on several drives in Patriots territory or getting into field goal range with a minute left which people forget about and pull a Stafford to Cooper cup which is what they did in 2021 Matt Ryan had that opportunity and Ryan had actually done that in the postseason to the Seahawks in 2012 but I digress it was a great season but we all know and quite honestly if one or two things went differently it might have been the best season of all time which Matt Ryan having the best season of all time that would be kind of crazy to say don't you think number five 2013 Payton Manning 2013 Payton Manning is going to stand the test of time for multiple reasons and this is really a great example of you can look at it from the class half full or you can look at it from the class half empty perspective the glass half full is that this is a dude who after neck surgery the guy couldn't even feel his hands this guy somehow went out there and threw for nearly 5,500 yards and 55 touchdowns he let's understand this he broke the single season touchdown record for touchdown passes with the Colts that record gets broken by Brady a couple years later Payton has neck surgery might not even play again goes to a different team and then re breaks the record all while leading the highest scoring offense ever and the Broncos to a 13 and3 record and a Super Bowl appearance which included a dominant performance in the AFC Championship game versus the Patriots but we all know what happened and this is why again if Payton even if the Broncos hadn't gotten blown out by 35 if pton had put up you know three or four touchdowns in a loss in a close loss I still think I would say this might be the best season ever but the ending was so bad and it was so terrible which ironically enough in terms of my defensive value adjusted stat it says that Payton didn't play terrible Payton actually had a positive 39 value in that game now a lot of that is because of garbage time and because the 2013 Seahawks defense was so historically dominant so that number is more about basically Payton doing the bare minimum and juicing his numbers and he threw a touchdown pass when he was down 29 which boosted his stats up a little bit so again this is kind of a my my stat isn't perfect but you know it just it's insane to me that this is a guy pton Manning think about how dominant he was you know what I'll say that for my next one but 2013 pton Manning just it really captures the entire pton experience you get all the records you get all the great games and you then you get the famous flame out at the very very end which leaves you wanting more much like number four on this list 2004 pton Manning oh my goodness you're not going to believe this but in 2004 pton Manning in essentially 15 games had over 2,000 defensive adjusted value he was an absolute monster and this was the first year where they kind of reemphasized the defensive contact rules after the Colts lost to the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game the year before where Payton once again had a meltdown regular season wise this is probably on a per throw basis the best regular season any quarterback's ever had again in just 15 games Payton had 49 touchdown passes and that includes some games where he sat out for the fourth quarter average basically 10 yards per attempt and had an adjust net yards per attempt of 9.78 which is still the all-time record and this I didn't include the last game of the year versus Denver where he only took two throws and sat out for playoff rest but then here we get the perfect Payton experience in the first playoff game versus Denver he continued his amazing season actually having the best performance of the season for the second year in a row he bent the Broncos over a table throwing for 458 yards four touchdowns running for a touchdown an interception and a 145. 7 rating in a 4924 win but again this is pton Manning and unless his defense is having a historically dominant season and postseason you're not going to win a Super Bowl with him despite all the rule changes the next week in Foxboro in the divisional round Payton had his worst game of the year a negative 23.2 value but really forget all the stats forget all the advanced numbers the fact is is that his record setting offense much like in Super Bowl 48 where they went from breaking the single season record for points they put up eight points in the Super Bowl 2004 Colts best offense in the league put up three points and I know the Patriots defenses were a monster but still this is just it's ridiculous to me how pton Manning could be so godamn good and so goddamn consistent and efficient for 17 years really even more like 15 years in the regular season and then come playoff time poop this guy made he made the playoffs 15 times and not one time did he have a clean title run which is insane to me that's crazy to me for how good pton Manning was the two times he did win his numbers were terrible and his defense was the biggest factor it's insane to me that this guy PT Manning never had a single playoff run where he just kind of went at had like eight touchdowns no interceptions and had a 115 pass rating you know and led the Colts or led the Broncos to a Super Bowl win it's not once I'm not asking for five not once that's crazy that he never once had that never had a clean postseason TI one which is crazy to me I just want to get that off my chest but his regular season was so good particularly from 2003 to 2013 that's still probably the best 10year stretch of regular season quarterback play that we'll ever see belongs to pton Manning and 2004 pton Manning belongs at number four on my list number three 2007 Tom Brady back in 2001 when I was still hating Tom Brady more and I still do hate him a lot and his fans I ranked this at number nine out of 10 and that was just me being a little bit delusional because Tom Brady's regular season he had over 2200 defensive adjusted value which is basically the equivalent of running for 3,000 yards in a season for a running back and there's absolutely no way around it he for the first 10 weeks of the season 38 touchdown passes just four interceptions the 2007 Patriots we all know their story they went undefeated in the regular season Brady broke the the passing record for touchdowns he had 50 you know Randy Moss had 23 of them he had 117.0 pass rating this was the year that Brady went from oh he's just the winner who has mediocre stats not mediocre stats good but he's just the winner this is the year Brady went from being a guy who had good stats and one games to flat out you know Superstar numbers but you know the numbers do also say towards the end of the regular season the last five weeks or so that he started to kind of fall off of a cliff and that continued into the postseason where he had a phenomenal game versus Jacksonville where he completed 26 of 28 passes but his last two playoff games versus the Chargers and famously the Super Bowl vers versus the Giants he was not good and that's why objectively I can't say he had the best season ever because his last two games the two biggest games of the Season he wasn't very good in and honestly if he wasn't playing a quarterback on a torn ACL in the AFC Championship game where he threw three picks which isn't the only time he's thrown three picks and won a conference Championship Game by the way he probably wouldn't have even made the Super Bowl and all the 18-1 jokes and all the undefeated season jokes would have ended 2 weeks early and we would have gotten a Philip Rivers Eli Manning Super Bowl imagine that but but anyway he had negative value in both the San Diego game and in Super Bowl 42 which is one of the biggest chokes ever to his credit he did lead a go-ahead drive in the fourth quarter but I mean dude you're the record-breaking offense you broke the record you can only put up 14 points I'm not going to give you a pat on the bat for scoring 14 points against a wild card team in a Super Bowl when you have the highest scoring offense of all time so his his mediocre postseason is what prevents him from being in my top two number two 1984 d Dan Marino from a pure value added perspective Dan Marino 1984 is the best season of all time if you include regular season and playoffs regular season his value is just behind 2007 Brady but Marino had a better postseason despite the fact that both of them ended in the same spot as Super Bowl losers in second place but yes I I've talked about Marino's 84 season many many times he didn't have a single game in the regular season really or in the playoffs of negative value although his worst game of the season in terms of value came at the worst time which was in the Super Bowl versus a historically loaded 15-1 49ers team you guys know the story by now threw for over 5,000 yards 48 touchdowns 17 interceptions had 108.9 pass rating again he led the league in everything that you could that was good but the overlooked part is in the playoffs the first two games of the playoffs specifically versus the Steelers his hometown Steelers in the AFC Championship game he had one of the greatest if not the greatest championship game performance of all time throwing for 42 21 yards on just 32 pass attempts four touchdowns 135.4 rating he had 334 yards of value which believe me is very very good but then the only reason I couldn't put him number one is because of that pesky Super Bowl and the fact that really it wasn't even close it was a blowout and I went back and watched the Super Bowl and it wasn't Dan's best performance he missed some throws that he should have made the Dolphins actually started out I think they were winning after the first quarter marinho threw a touchdown pass put the Falcons up now maybe if he was playing against the Rams in Super Bowl 53 that would have been good enough to win and he wouldn't have to deal with all these ringless jokes but guess what this was a different monster and the Dolphins ended up getting blown out losing by 22 oh who is the quarterback on the other team that day oh J monana oh guess who's number one 1989 Joe Montana when I think of what's the best season ever I want a season that checks off every box I want a season where you were dominant in the regular season and where you were dominant and you won a Super Bowl and you got better in the post season and that's where Montana in 1989 checks off all the boxes even though he missed three games and even though he was definitely in a great system he was just amazing also the fact that he had a lot of game-winning drives so it wasn't as though every game for the 49ers in the regular season leades was a blowout he also showed his clutchness time and time again he had a 112. four passer rating which in 1989 was like a 130 passer rating today led the league basically in every good stat you could but the real reason 1989 Joe Montana is number number one on my list is because of his postseason he is by far that is it is by far I would say the best postseason any quarterback has ever had by far 800 yards 11 touchdowns no picks he was only sacked once for no yards he had a passer rating in the postseason three games of 146.4 a perfect passer rating is 158.3 he had 664 yards of value in just three postseason games and better yet the 49ers as a team won their three postseason games by a combined 100 points none of the games were close and he capped it off in the Super Bowl with a five touchdown performance where he won his fourth and final ring and Super Bowl MVP I was almost not going to give him it because he missed a couple games but I said you know what when I think of the best season ever that's really As Good As It Gets don't you think look at it this way there's really no yeah but about it he did it he and his team dominated so thoroughly there was no doubt as to who the best was and that's why he's number one
