With six teams on bye this week, that left 26 teams playing in week nine. Not a single one of the main quarterbacks for any of those teams averaged fewer than 4.00 Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt. That’s incredible: overall, quarterbacks this week averaged an insane 7.12 ANY/A. Take a look: the table below shows the passing stats from all 30 players who threw a pass in week 9. I have calculated the Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt for each player as well, along with their VALUE (ANY/A minus league average multiplied by number of dropbacks) provided relative to league average, with one catch: league average is 7.12. As a result, all of the quarterback grades feel a little depressed.

Eli Manning threw for 213 yards and 2 TDs and took zero sacks in a win…. and he was the “worst” statistical quarterback of the week! That’s nuts. As it turns out, it’s the second best ANY/A week since the merger. The table below shows the league average ANY/A in each year-week from 1970 to 2014:

Week Rk Tms Cmp Att Gross Pyd TD INT Sk SkYd ANY/A 2010-10 1 28 648 1032 8090 56 22 54 355 7.24 2014-4 2 26 600 925 7225 54 30 48 261 6.88 2014-3 3 32 728 1108 8221 52 22 54 313 6.85 1990-6 4 24 426 749 6006 45 23 53 393 6.83 1991-11 5 28 548 904 7135 45 23 59 424 6.83 2014-6 6 30 660 1080 8056 56 23 82 447 6.62 2014-8 7 30 693 1081 8260 52 28 73 450 6.58 1980-7 8 28 486 796 6629 44 35 48 397 6.56 2011-1 9 32 685 1116 8420 54 24 89 578 6.51 1989-2 10 28 566 927 7586 54 41 56 424 6.51 2009-5 11 28 573 908 6669 41 19 60 356 6.49 2014-7 12 30 636 999 7309 54 21 76 484 6.47 2011-2 13 32 682 1100 8433 54 33 68 487 6.46 2011-13 14 32 613 1028 7698 45 22 74 494 6.46 2012-9 15 28 591 938 6865 39 19 59 359 6.45 1995-12 16 30 630 1007 7541 57 30 67 432 6.42 1991-12 17 28 547 908 6751 48 22 63 484 6.42 2004-3 18 28 569 927 6892 36 16 77 447 6.42 2012-17 19 32 591 995 7200 49 20 69 461 6.41 2007-3 20 32 649 1022 7791 45 28 69 486 6.37 2013-9 21 26 576 939 7046 44 27 61 367 6.34 2008-8 22 28 614 981 7136 37 21 53 376 6.34 2010-3 23 32 689 1095 8134 50 32 59 389 6.33 2004-9 24 28 515 862 6099 44 17 62 375 6.32 2011-9 25 28 568 951 6766 43 24 45 254 6.32 2012-2 26 32 664 1064 7899 49 28 73 453 6.30 2013-5 27 28 595 977 7503 42 27 77 504 6.28 2002-10 28 28 629 998 7203 39 23 54 339 6.28 2008-17 29 32 596 970 6912 40 23 48 289 6.28 2009-11 30 32 667 1080 7826 52 29 58 420 6.28 1994-2 31 28 586 950 7207 50 34 57 361 6.27 1990-5 32 24 433 761 5897 43 27 57 412 6.27 2004-8 33 28 565 930 6786 50 30 48 328 6.25 2008-6 34 28 559 883 6597 35 24 56 353 6.24 2011-5 35 26 534 882 6583 45 28 57 361 6.24 2013-14 36 32 669 1114 7759 64 27 65 465 6.24 2014-1 37 32 747 1163 8297 48 25 67 462 6.24 2013-1 38 32 748 1183 8710 63 34 81 562 6.23 2012-4 39 30 686 1088 8206 47 32 74 482 6.22 2013-13 40 32 678 1100 8184 48 29 79 521 6.21 1996-13 41 30 639 1048 7701 46 31 57 376 6.20 2014-5 42 30 660 1076 7678 49 27 62 389 6.20 2014-13 43 32 690 1080 8046 54 31 79 548 6.20 2013-2 44 32 741 1213 8693 48 26 77 495 6.19 2012-10 45 28 603 952 6826 47 25 60 382 6.18 1992-7 46 26 475 806 6193 36 23 67 482 6.18 2014-11 47 28 605 967 6957 40 26 53 303 6.16 2007-17 48 32 651 1065 7191 58 22 61 434 6.15 2006-14 49 32 601 999 7251 42 28 58 350 6.13 2008-1 50 32 588 958 6696 39 17 68 429 6.12

So what’s driving the great ANY/A this week? There’s a pretty simple answer to that, too. It’s a really high touchdown rate and a really low interception rate. The highest TD/INT ratio for the NFL in any single week came in week 17 of the 2007 season, when teams threw 58 touchdowns and only 22 interceptions. That’s a 2.64 TD/INT ratio.

Well, this week, teams teams threw 48 touchdowns and just 18 interceptions. That’s a 2.67 touchdown/interception ratio, the highest single ratio in any week in NFL history.