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(QBER is short for Quarterback Efficiency Rating, a more comprehensive and easily understood rating system that places the emphasis where it belongsùthe ability of a quarterback to advance the ball, avoid turnovers and score touchdowns in comparison to his peers. A rating of 100.0 is the league average.) Any discussion of NFC darkhorses should begin with the team that has the most efficient quarterback through the first five weeks of the ...

HereÆs what I got out of the SteelersÆ 38-28 victory on Sunday night: Boy, is that Bruce Arians a genius or what? Four hundred and ninety-eight yards of total offense? Aggressive play calls from start to finish? An option pass for a touchdown? Center Doug Legursky in the backfield. Heck, I even saw Stephan Logan at wide receiver for, Heaven's sake. I mean, if Dick LeBeau isnÆt careful, Arians may get to ...

(QBER is short for Quarterback Efficiency Rating, a more comprehensive and easily understood rating system that places the emphasisáwhere it belongsùthe abilityáof a quarterbackáto advance the ball, avoid turnovers and score touchdowns in comparison to his peers. A rating of 100.0 is average.) á ááááááááá Tony Romo may get the hype, but according to QBER, Matt Schaub is the best quarterback in Texasùand itÆs not even close. ááááááááá On the strength of a ...

HereÆs my take on the SteelersÆ 23-20 defeat on Sunday afternoon: 1. ThereÆs a fine line between experienced and past-your-prime, and this could be the season that theáSteelers defense crosses it finally. The D came up short in the last two fourth quarters, and the failures had nothing to do with effort and everything to do with a lack of speed and quickness. When the games were on the line, 30-somethings James ...

The Monday Afternoon Quarterback goes deep while he wonders if the Steelers really did select Rashard Mendenhall one spot ahead of Chris Johnson in the 2008 NFL Draft... á First down Look, IÆm not here to spread doom and gloom, but thereÆs something eerily similar about this season and the 2006 clunker. As you may recall, in the regular season opener three years ago, the defending Super Bowl champions struggled to beat the Miami ...

Here’s what I got out of the Steelers’ 17-14 defeat on Sunday afternoon: 1. There are good losses and not-so-good losses. And then there is the kind that the Steelers had against a very beatable Chicago Bears team. If you’re the defending Super Bowl champions, then this shouldn’t happen. Except for the absence of safety Troy Polamalu—and granted, that was a large exception—the Steelers had everything in their favor here. They had nine ...

The Monday Afternoon Quarterback goes deep while he waits for the Black-and-gold Eyed Peas to take the stage...     First down There’s one hyphenated word that scares Steelers World like no other. And it’s even printable. No-huddle. Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians switched to the no-huddle offense against the Tennessee Titans in the regular-season opener, and the results were only slightly short of sensational. But these are the Steelers, right? The physical, aggressive team that runs ...

Everyone from coaches to players to fantasy league geeks make a point to check out the NFL quarterback ratings each week. And more times than not, they find it difficult to tell up from down, good from bad.  Meet the NFL passer rating system, which is the most maligned, least understood individual statistic in all of professional team sports. “In a number of cases, I wouldn’t say the current system is an ...

Here’s what I got out of the Steelers’ 13-10 overtime victory in the regular-season opener: + So there it was, the first quarter of the first game, and I couldn’t help but wonder what the Steelers personnel people were thinkin’ when they decided not to address the o-line problems after last season. I mean, this hadn’t been a problem for a couple or three months. It had been a problem for ...