WhoDat

Wow - those are some good stats. I\'m sure you guys have heard this already this year, but... did you know...

No team with a top five running back (by yards) made the playoffs this year. Only one (the Giants - Tiki Barber was 7th) made it from the top ten. In fact of the playoff teams this year their running backs ranked

7th - Tiki Barber (first rounf loss)
12th - Ahman Green (first round loss)
14th - Eddie George (bye)
15th - Curtis Martin (first round win)
16th - Duce Staley (bye)
18th - Edgerrin James (first round loss)
21st - Garrison Hearst (first round win)
22nd - Charlie Garner (bye)
24th - Warrick Dunn (first round win)
25th - William Green (first round loss)
28th - Amos Zereoue (first round win) - he was behing Vick!
Tampa doesn\'t even have a gu in the top 30.

However, their quarterbacks, sorted by passer efficiency, ranked:
1st - Chad Pennington (first round win)
3rd - Rich Gannon (bye)
4th - Kelly Holcomb (first round loss) - he started in the playoff game
5th - Brad Johnson (bye)
7th - Peyton Manning (first round loss)
10th - Donovan McNabb (bye)
14th - Brett Favre (first rounf loss)
15th - Jeff Garcia (first round win)
16th - Kerry Collins (first round loss)
18th - Tomy Maddox (first round win)
19th - Steve McNair (bye)
20th - Michael Vick (first round win) (one better than Brooks - hehe).

That means in terms of running backs, the playoff teams had 0 tops 5 guys, 1 top ten guys, 4 top 15, and 5 ranked lower than 20. But as far as quarterbacks go they had 4 top 5, 6 to p10, 8 top 15, and 0 lower than 20.

That\'s bad news for the Saints. Deuce ranked 6th and Aaron ranked 21st. Maybe we have the wrong formula...?

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