you seem to cherry pick 1 certain stat per season to make a case lol. i still dont see these stretches where they where worse then flacco. take rivers. his 3 seasons with a high int % where 2007 , 2011 and 2014. thats not a stretch. 2011 rivers had 4624 yards 27 TD 20 INT 62.9 completion % 88.7 QB rating and 63.38 QBR. this would 1 of flacco best seasons to date.... flacco has never thrown so many yards , only 1 he threw so many TDs, has 1 season with more picks , only 1 season with a better comp %, only 3 seasons with a better QB rating and only 1 season with a better QBR. 2012 3606 yards 26 TDs, 15 INT, 64.1comp % 88.6 qb rating and 41.53 QBR all while taking 49 sacks. this is a pretty darn good season when you consider the amount of sacks he took. flacco 2013 season was way worse and he took 1 less sack. 26 TD would be flacco 2nd best total of his career, 64.1 comp% would be a career best, 88.6 QB rating would be 4th best of flacco career. you can consider these 2 seasons a bad stretch for rivers but for flacco it would be among his better seasons lol. for romo i seriously dont know what 5 seasons you are talking about. 2006 he became the starter after 6 games and had a decend season. 2007 he had a huge season throwing for 4211 yards 64.4 comp % 36 TD 19 INT 97.4 QB rating and 71.21 QBR. you can argue about his his 3.7 int but this would be by far flacco best season ever if he had these stats lol. 2008 3448 yards 61.3 % 26 TD 14 INT 91.4 QB rating and 48.99 QBR in 13 games. flacco had statistically worse seasons then this... 2009 4483 yards 63.1 % 26 TD and 9 INT 97.6 QB rating 62.07 QB rating. easily be flacco best season ever. 2010 played only 6 games. he actually had 4 seasons with a high int % with 2010 a season he only played 6 games, 2006 being his 1st season as a starter , 2007 would be 1 of flacco best season ever and 2008 would be a middle of pact at least season for flacco. 2013 and 2014 he may threw for lesser yards but he threw for way more TDs, far lesser INT ,higher comp %, much higher QB rating , much higher QBR. Overall still statistical better seasons then flacco ever had. 2011 and 2012 where not bad either so im still wonder when was the stretch he was supposed to be doing worse then flacco? Eli is about the only 1 you can make a case but you would have to go back to 2006 and 2007 to consider it a stretch. he seems to be the type that has 2 good seasons then 1 terrible 1 and then 2 good seasons and then 1 terrible 1. 2004,2007, 2010 and 2013 are his bad seasons statistically 2008,2009,2011,2012 and 2014 all where season that would statistically be among flacco better seasons. also its hard to win games when you aint in the play offs though so not sure why you brought that up. but since you went there im pretty dammm sure Eli is a 2 time SB MVP. its also nice to make the play offs and win games but the ultimate goal is still to win the SB and Eli has certainly made the most out of his shots. 4 play off appearances with 2 SB victories is better then 6 play off appearances and 1 SB...... tbh its hard to argue someone had a bad stretch when you focus on just 1 stat per season, even more so when the other stats are similar or better then anything flacco has done so far. you are right about keap , smith and RG3 and such but rivers,romo and to a certain degree Eli have put up similar if not better stats then flacco so its really not a surprise people rank them higher.