Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was coming off a season in which he suffered a torn ACL that forced him to miss games for the first time in his career when he entered the 2016 season. That didn’t prevent him from coming back and setting records, inauspicious though they may be.
According to Scott Kascmar over at Football Outsiders, Flacco threw more ‘failed completions’ during the course of the 2016 season than anybody else since at least 1989, and likely in NFL history, given that quarterback throw the ball vastly more often in today’s game than they did in the 80s and further back.