Flacco is the only playoff QB not to throw an INT

[Jay D83]

WEBB - MINN - 1INT
DALTON - CIN - 1INT
SCHAUB - HOU - 2INT
LUCK - IND - 1INT
RGIII - WAS - 1INT
MANNING - DEN - 2INT
RODGERS - GB - 1INT
KAPERNICK - SF - 1INT
WILSON - SEA - INT
RYAN - ATL- 3INT
BRADY - NE - 2INT

I think that stat is amazing and deserves some celebration!

[callahan09]

Very nice. Thanks for the stat. Flacco is currently in the midst of a 162 pass streak with no INTs, his career best.

[Uncle Dready]

...Further proof that Joe is the new "Joe Cool". No picks this deep into the P/O speaks for itself.

[Hjulmann]

I think it's a great stat too, but please don't jinx it!

[Jay D83]

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I think it's a great stat too, but please don't jinx it!
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Well, the playoffs are over. The Superbowl is the Championship. Another brand new season lol.

[JohnnyBoy8102]

Joe has 15 TDs & 2 INTs in his last 7 Playoff Games.

[Ed_Reed20]

He's taking care of the football and slangin' it with confidence.

Go Joe!

[Moderator 3]

Joe leads all playoff QBs in all statistical categories on the stat sites I have checked: best rating, most yards, most TDs, least INTs. What more can anyone ask?

[Tank 92]

There's a reason no one is talking about it....shhhh.

[PuRock]

There were a few throws the past few weeks that had potential. Joe is playing lights out, but sometimes there is some luck involved as well. And I am sure some of the QBs INTs weren't necessarily on them.

[Alexir]

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He's taking care of the football and slangin' it with confidence.

Go Joe!
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Yeah, he really is making smart decisions.

P.s. I think McKinnie might of earned himself an extension, he is keeping Joe clean in the post season.

[jdynamite]

I told my older brother last night, I said Flacco was average in the Regular season but in the playoffs he has 8TDs, 0 INTs, at the time I said near 1,000 yds passing, well I was wrong about that its 853 yds but that's still great. Contract talk will be insane now, he surely will be playing under the Franchise now because his agent will demand Top 5 money...

Just Win that SuperBowl baby the rest will follow!!

[ravenraven]

No one's talking about it because it's the kiss of death. Now we can expect one in the most important game of the year. GREAT.......You never talk to a kicker before a big kick, you never talk to a pitcher who's pitching a no hitter, and you never mention that a QB is the only one who has not thrown a pick in the playoffs. Our only hope now is to have Ray Lewis start a prayer chant for Joe.

[T3hRaven]

[quote name='callahan09' timestamp='1358781311' post='1323897']
Very nice. Thanks for the stat. Flacco is currently in the midst of a 162 pass streak with no INTs, his career best.
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Some people better start knocking on wood before we mess this up.

[callahan09]

[U]Record 1[/U]

Joe Flacco has now set a new NFL post-season record for the [I]most pass attempts without an interception in a conference play-off run[/I] (that is, playing to get to the Super Bowl, not including the Super Bowl).

His 93 attempts with no interceptions in the conference play-offs beats the former record holder: Daryle Lamonica in 1968, with 86 pass attempts and no interceptions.

[U]Record 2[/U]

He also happens to be in 4th place on another interesting list. [I]Most consecutive pass attempts without an interception in a single post-season[/I]; Current top 5:

Eli Manning (2011) - 112
Drew Brees (2009) - 102
Eli Manning (2007) - 95
Joe Flacco (2012) - 93
Tom Brady (2001) - 90

He can move up the list into a third place tie with Eli Manning as long as he doesn't throw an INT in his first 2 attempts. He would have to avoid an INT in his first 9 attempts to tie Drew Brees for second place. To tie Eli Manning in 1st place he would have to avoid an INT in his first 19 attempts.

20 attempts without an INT will put him in first place for this leaderboard.

[U]Record 3[/U]

He could potentially find himself on top of another leader board as well, though this one is more volatile, as if he throws an INT he will wipe himself off the list entirely, as opposed to the first 2 records I mentioned, where he is cemented in there already no matter what happens in the final game.

[I]Most pass attempts without an INT in an entire single post-season[/I]; Current top 5:

Drew Brees (2009) - 102
Joe Flacco (2012) - 93
Troy Aikman (1992) - 89
Steve Young (1994) - 87
Daryle Lamonica (1968) - 86

If Flacco throws at least 10 passes and 0 interceptions in the next game, he will be the new record holder. Flacco has only thrown fewer than 10 passes once in his career: @CIN in the season finale this year, where he only played part of the first quarter. In games he wasn't rested because we had no reason to play him, he has never thrown fewer than 10 attempts in a single game, and has only thrown exactly 10 attempts just once, when he was severely injured @NWE in the 2009 playoffs. Besides that game, he has never thrown fewer than 18 attempts. So throwing 10 times shouldn't be a problem.

But what are the chances he doesn't throw an INT? Obviously there's no way to know, but we could take a look at some past trends and see if we should be scared or not...

He has thrown 0 INTs in 7 out of 12 post-season games, and 40 out of 80 regular season games. So, in the post-season he has a 58% rate of not throwing an INT, in the regular season a 50% rate, and overall a 51% rate.

When given extra time to prepare (so, in season openers & after byes), Flacco has not thrown in INT in 7 out of 11 games, so that is a 64% rate of not throwing an INT. But that figure has improved in his later seasons than his first couple of seasons. Out of the last 6 games with extra time to prepare, he has thrown just 1 INT.

In those 11 games with extra time to prepare, he has the following stats:

201/323, 2411 Yards, 14 TD, 5 INT
62.2%, 7.46 Y/A, 219 Y/G, 93.0 QB Rating

In the 6 most recent games he has:

107/169, 1423 Yards, 10 TD, 1 INT
63.3%, 8.42 Y/A, 237 Y/G, 107.2 QB Rating

Or if you don't want such a cherry picked stat, I'll give you probably the most relevant version of this information. All 9 of his non-rookie games with extra time to prepare:

173/275, 2153 Yards, 14 TD, 3 INT
62.9%, 7.83 Y/A, 239 Y/G, 99.6 QB Rating

The reason to exclude rookie is because, interestingly enough, it includes his first two NFL games of his entire career. Obviously it includes the season opener of his first season, but then the bye week in 2008 was during Week 2 because we were originally supposed to play in Houston that week, but it was delayed due to Hurricane Ike, so our bye week got moved way up to the front of the season. So since those were Flacco's first two career games, as a rookie who wasn't even supposed to be the starter that season, I figure it's OK to exclude them and look at all the rest of what he's done. In this case, 3 INTs in 9 games means .33 INTs per game, and 6 games out of 9 without an INT means a 67% rate of not throwing an interception.

[A Fish Called Yanda]

I hope he doesn't know about this.

Would make me nervous if I was the QB that could potentially get all of these records

[BloodRaven]

Joe is doing his part, but he can't do it on his own. Everybody has to be on point and win their battles.

[Dudeman]

Look this is all fantastic, I get it and I am proud of Joe too. But I am even more proud of the Ravens coming together as a team.

Remember that this is a team game people! We wonder why analysts and media get all caught up in individual player accomplishments, and that's because we as fans put these stats on some kind of pedastal. But what does it all mean??

It means that the linemen have been blocking their asses off for Flacco, Rice, Pierce AND Lewis. It means the corners are picking/deflecting balls and the receivers are catching them. It means that the coaches are making sound game management decisions.

So in the words of Harbaugh/Schembechler it's about the team, the team, the team!

Go Ravens, go shock the world in the Super Bowl!

[PeRK82]

[quote name='Hjulmann' timestamp='1358781602' post='1323900']
I think it's a great stat too, but please [b]don't jinx it![/b]
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this, THIS

Thats why no has brung it up.

[Giedi]

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Joe is doing his part, but he can't do it on his own. Everybody has to be on point and win their battles.
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Very impressive stats. I think your strong run game has a big part to play in that. You can't rush 4 and drop 7 on Flacco all day and not expect Ray Rice on a draw play or dive to put a stop to that kind of defense.