Whether it is the Minnesota Vikings or any NFL team’s signal-caller, football enthusiasts relish utilizing “Quarterback Wins’ as a statistic to adjudicate a player’s success or failure. It is probably derived from MLB pitchers as those athletes are assigned a win-loss record based on the baseball team – as a whole – performs.
Just as pitchers are judged by wins and losses as an individual metric, quarterbacks get the same treatment. “How many games has Baker Mayfield won for Cleveland Browns” – is the type of narrative that swirls in sports circles while wholly dismissing accountability for a middle linebacker of free safety.