{"id":420,"date":"2020-08-02T23:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2020-08-02T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:07:57","slug":"college-of-quarterback-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/uncategorized\/college-of-quarterback-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Quarterback Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I like to take a look at data I&#8217;ve collected about quarterbacking in the NFL. Examining these statistics is like a history lesson. You can view league totals and averages and see exactly how play-calling has evolved over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put a lot of that work into a spreadsheet that has bits and pieces of demographic information. I haven&#8217;t proofed it against the major databases, but it is a fairly complete list of every game played in the NFL (regular season and playoffs) since 1974, when the rules were changed to open up the passing game.<\/p>\n<p>This post is just a piece of that data &#8211; an attempt to show the last college attended by quarterbacks who have won games as starters in the NFL. This includes 144 colleges and more than 11,000 wins. No analysis here &#8211; it&#8217;s just a list, heavily skewed by the Hall-of-Fame level quarterbacks who add the most to the totals. I thought it would be interesting as discussion continues as to whether there will be a 2020 college football season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/images\/qbwins_college.jpg\" alt=\"QB Wins, by College\" \/><br \/>\n<small>** &#8211; Quarterback had a significant portion of his career prior to 1974, which is not included in the total<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I know people will ask, but I have no news regarding the future of Front Office Football. I believe I am close to a decision, and will post this information soon. If I don&#8217;t have anything to update by the end of September, I will post again at that point regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I like to take a look at data I&#8217;ve collected about quarterbacking in the NFL. Examining these statistics is like a history lesson. You can view league totals and averages and see exactly how play-calling has evolved over the years. I&#8217;ve put a lot of that work into a spreadsheet that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solecismic.com\/frontierblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}