There has been recent mention of Peyton Manning matching Brett Favre’s record of being the only quarterback who has beaten all thirty-two NFL teams.
But what about the flipside? Which NFL quarterback has lost to the most teams? Has any quarterback managed to lose against all thirty-two teams?
Favre’s come close - the only two teams he never lost a game to are the Redskins and the Texans. So Favre lost at least one game to thirty different teams in his career.
Has any other quarterback matched or exceeded that number? It would have to be somebody since 1995 obviously.
To find him, I looked at a list of the players with the most losses since 1995, with at least one pass attempt (as pro football reference doesn’t seem to let you specify quaterbacks on their search), and I’ve been down the top 20, looking at their splits. Here is the list:QBs with most losses
There may be someone with a “better ranking”.
I’ve had a look at Brett Favre, and Pro Football Reference has Favre losing to the Redskins once, but it seems Billy Joe Tolliver was the main quaterback:
Looking at the play-by-play Brett Favre was the starting quarterback, and Hasselbeck only replaced him with 7 minutes left. If we don’t count that, we are still looking for someone who lost to every team. When is a quarterback credited with a loss?
Not a record since expansion, but Archie Manning played 150 games in his NFL career, with a record of 37-110-3, including losses to all 27 non-Saints teams in the league. Apparently he never played against the Saints during his time with Houston and Minnesota.
I would have thought Ryan Fitzpatrick might have had a good shot at this. He’s played for ten years and started for five different teams and his overall record is 36-56-1. But he’s never lost a game to Buffalo, Carolina, Detroit, or Oakland.
BTW, Blake never played New England or Washington, so he only reached 29.
The best I could find among people not in the top 20 of silverfish’s list was losing to 28 teams. Warren Moon retired before the Texans came into being and never played the Jaguars. He went 1-0 against the Panthers and 2-0 against the then-Oilers. Michael Vick (#21 on the list) has never played the Titans, but could get a shot at them in six weeks. He’s 2-0 against the Bengals, Jaguars, and (oh well) Jets.
My mistake. I was looking at a list of his career stats and I just counted the zeroes and subtracted that from thirty-two rather than counting up the number of teams.
Similarly, I also screwed up my earlier post about Jeff Garcia. He only played against thirty teams in his career (he never played against the Patriots or the Texans). So he only lost games to a total of twenty-seven teams in his career.