>>Only one I can think of is Tom Brady... would've expected Roethlisberger, since you're in PA but he hasn't been around that long. And if it hadn't been for last year, I'd guess another PA QB... McNabb, what with all the NFC championship seasons.
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>>Nope, it's not Tom Brady. His ratings the last four years have been 85.7, 85.9, 92.6, and 92.3.
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>>Correct, it's not Big Ben either, he's only been in the league two years. I was surprised that his ratings were as high as they've been (98.1 and 98.6): his TD/INT ratio isn't that high, but his completion % is very good.
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>>McNabb isn't even close. He had one big year (2004), the year with T.O., when his rating was 104.7. But aside from 2004, Donovan has never had a rating above 86 (his completion % isn't great).
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>>OK, a hint. While this QB's current active streak of 4 years with a rating of 90+ has been with one team, this QB has started for more than one team in his career.

I think you attach way too much importance to the QB rating formula. With its emphasis on completion percentage and interception percentage it rewards the dweeby guys who don't do much more than dump off 5 to 7 yarders. You damn Ben Roethlisberger with faint praise, but the fact is he can throw the bomb when needed, something defenses always respect. More importantly, he made a middling team believe in itself and helped take them to a Super Bowl win. The Steelers' title run was half defense and half belief in a kid they had no rational reason to have faith in. You can't quantify that. The exact same thing could be said of Tom Brady and the Patriots.

Here's another way to put it -- Joe Namath. His QB rating is undoubtedly poor between the end of his career after his knees were shot and the high number of interceptions even in his prime. But he was one of the greats on the only scale that matters, winning. He literally made the modern NFL happen by delivering on his promise to beat the supposedly unbeatable Colts in the third Super Bowl, when the game was considered by many to be an exhibition game of sorts between the "real" league, the NFL, and those goofballs from the AFL. The Packers had won the first two Super Bowls decisively. Namath and the Jets showed it wasn't the NFL that was dominant, it was the Packers. He had a gun of an arm -- cornerbacks probably never took a clean breath from when they stepped out of the tunnel until the final whistle blew -- and the cocky confidence that inspires people to follow you wherever, whenever. A guy like that is worth 10 trivia answers like Trent Green.

Mike