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Now that the Panthers have officially released Jake Delhomme, a quick look at their quarterbacking situation is in order. They’ve got Matt Moore coming back, and Michael Vick earlier in the week identified Carolina as the team he would most like to join.
I think it will be Moore. There are questions about how effective Vick can be. He’s never been a great passer, and he’s starting to lose some of the mobility that earlier in his career made him arguably the best running quarterback ever.
Moore was surprisingly good last year. He went 4-1 as a starter. In those games, he completed 63 percent of his passes, with an 8-1 ratio of touchdowns to interceptions.
If you convert those numbers to the passer rating system the NFL employs, that works out to Pro Bowl type production (particularly with the way they’re running the Pro Bowl now – with the Super Bowl teams sitting out).
By our count, only three quarterbacks had higher passer ratings than Moore during the second half of last season. Delhomme, on the other hand, had the lowest passer rating before being benched.
PASSER RATING, SECOND HALF OF 2009
(showing all quarterbacks with at least 100 attempts).
117.0 Philip Rivers
113.4 Drew Brees
108.4 Brett Favre
104.9 Matt Moore
103.2 Aaron Rodgers
101.4 Kurt Warner
99.2 Eli Manning
99.2 Tony Romo
96.9 Matt Schaub
96.6 Ben Roethlisberger
93.4 Peyton Manning
92.5 Tom Brady
91.3 Donovan McNabb
87.1 Joe Flacco
86.3 Jason Campbell
85.5 Kyle Orton
85.3 David Garrard
83.7 Trent Edwards
82.8 Vince Young
82.0 Bruce Gradkowski
80.8 Alex Smith
79.2 Matt Ryan
76.2 Carson Palmer
73.9 Chad Henne
69.4 Brady Quinn
69.3 Jay Cutler
67.6 Matthew Stafford
65.9 Matt Hasselbeck
63.8 Matt Cassel
56.6 Josh Freeman
56.6 Mark Sanchez
54.3 Jake Delhomme
—Ian Allan
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