I have to laugh when people defend Flacco based on his passing yards this year. That's really your only leg to stand on. Of course you're going to rack up yards when you throw more than any other QB in the league. Unfortunately, yards don't win football games- TDs win football games. Flacco is well behind most NFL QBs in that department. Rating is actually an accurate indicator of the quality of your QB because it takes several key stats into account. Flacco is currently ranked 25th in Passer Rating. He's showing some improvement this month, which is good, but the first half of the season he was awful.