Offensive Passer Rating

Through Week 11 of the 2012 Regular Season

About Offensive Passer Rating. Offensive Passer Rating is merely the commonly used measure of quarterbacks, applied to the entire team, so it measures the performance of each quarterback on the roster. Passer rating is often criticized by ignorant football "analysts" for being overly complex. But its usefulness as a measure of team success is truly underappreciated in the football community. Passer Rating has a much higher Correlation to Victory than volume stats, such as passing yards. Almost all great teams in history were very strong in Offensive Passer Rating, Defensive Passer Rating or Passer Rating Differential. The Cold, Hard Football Facts have issued countless studies of the importance of those stats, each of them critical Quality Stats, including here on SportsIllustrated.com in the summer of 2011. We spoke about the importance of all three measures of passer rating at NFL Films in the summer of 2012.

Rank	Offensive Passer Rating_R	Team	Att	Comp	%	PYds	PY/A	TD	Int	OPR
4 ↑ 1	4	New England	396	257	64.90	2993	7.56	21	3	102.18
30 ↓ 1	30	Miami	327	190	58.10	2251	6.88	7	11	72.31
18 ↑ 2	18	Minnesota	316	206	65.19	2027	6.41	12	8	85.25
23 ↑ 5	23	Jacksonville	349	199	57.02	2231	6.39	14	7	81.25
32 ∼	32	Kansas City	335	196	58.51	2104	6.28	6	15	64.32
7 ↑ 5	7	Houston	335	218	65.07	2563	7.65	18	9	94.91
26 ↓ 1	26	Indianapolis	412	235	57.04	2965	7.20	12	12	77.17
19 ↓ 5	19	Detroit	440	275	62.50	3160	7.18	14	10	85.23
1 ∼	1	Green Bay	356	239	67.13	2646	7.43	28	6	108.19
22 ∼	22	N.Y. Giants	366	224	61.20	2645	7.23	12	11	81.60
5 ↑ 3	5	New Orleans	402	251	62.44	3076	7.65	28	9	99.89
29 ↑ 1	29	N.Y. Jets	321	174	54.21	2077	6.47	11	9	73.96
16 ↑ 1	16	Oakland	417	253	60.67	3039	7.29	17	11	85.61
27 ↓ 3	27	Philadelphia	394	228	57.87	2588	6.57	12	12	75.14
11 ↓ 5	11	Pittsburgh	370	234	63.24	2561	6.92	17	5	93.31
14 ↓ 1	14	San Diego	340	228	67.06	2461	7.24	17	14	87.63
3 ↑ 1	3	San Francisco	266	184	69.17	2180	8.20	15	5	104.84
12 ↓ 2	12	Seattle	255	159	62.35	1875	7.35	16	8	92.52
21 ↓ 3	21	St. Louis	337	206	61.13	2323	6.89	13	9	83.48
15 ∼	15	Baltimore	345	208	60.29	2525	7.32	13	7	86.93
8 ↓ 5	8	Atlanta	397	268	67.51	3072	7.74	20	12	94.78
2 ∼	2	Denver	373	255	68.36	2975	7.98	24	7	105.92
28 ↓ 1	28	Arizona	382	216	56.54	2291	6.00	10	8	74.19
9 ↓ 2	9	Tampa Bay	319	180	56.43	2505	7.85	21	7	94.63
10 ↓ 1	10	Cincinnati	345	222	64.35	2632	7.63	21	11	94.50
25 ↓ 2	25	Chicago	297	177	59.60	2015	6.78	13	12	77.77
6 ↑ 5	6	Washington	287	191	66.55	2304	8.03	13	5	98.83
24 ↑ 2	24	Carolina	304	174	57.24	2441	8.03	9	10	79.40
20 ↑ 1	20	Tennessee	353	217	61.47	2304	6.53	13	7	84.52
17 ↑ 2	17	Buffalo	324	202	62.35	2179	6.73	17	11	85.40
13 ↑ 3	13	Dallas	404	274	67.82	3005	7.44	14	13	87.74
31 ∼	31	Cleveland	371	205	55.26	2298	6.19	11	12	70.34

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