Giants reporter embarrassingly claims Daniel Jones is better than Aaron Rodgers

For the first time in a long while, most would confidently insist that the NY Jets have a better quarterback than their fellow MetLife Stadium residents, the Giants, following the addition of Aaron Rodgers this offseason.

Rodgers has many believing the Jets could be legitimate Super Bowl contenders this season, while the Giants are seen as more of a fringe playoff team in a very weak NFC. Time will tell if those predictions come true, but that's the consensus right now.

Not according to Bob Brookover of NJ.com, however. Brookover, a Giants beat writer, insists that the Giants, not the Jets, have the best quarterback in New York (ignoring Josh Allen because let's not start that conversation).

Brookover claims that Daniel Jones is a superior quarterback to Rodgers in the year 2023, and he wrote an entire article to prove it. I'll attempt to summarize Brookover's assertion so you don't have to waste your time with that story.

Why one reporter insists NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers is inferior to Daniel Jones

Brookover uses solely stats from the 2022 season to compare the two quarterbacks. He highlighted a bunch of statistics, pretty much all the basic box score stats, to compare Rodgers' and Jones' 2022 seasons.

The conclusion Brookover drew is that Jones had the advantage in more basic box score stats last season thus he must be better than Rodgers. Brookover also threw in some jabs at Rodgers' personality, saying he "doesn’t seem to care too much about saying whatever is on his mind."

Apparently that means he's a worse QB. I guess?

Of course, this largely ignores context or any analysis beyond surface-level box-score scouting. Never mind the fact that Rodgers played most of last season with a broken thumb. Never mind the fact that Rodgers was better than Jones in essentially every analytical category.

And, you know, never mind the fact that Rodgers has been named NFL MVP in two of the last three seasons. Those aren't important details.

Despite Brookover pointing out that Rodgers threw more interceptions than Jones, he conveniently ignores that Jones actually had more turnover-worthy plays than his adversary, per Pro Football Focus.

Jones' average depth of target was also just 6.5 as compared to Rodgers' 8.5. No qualified quarterback averaged a lower depth of target than Jones. Again, you don't need stats to tell you that — just watch the games.

In terms of big-time throws, Rodgers also has Jones beat by a wide margin. Rodgers' 33 big-time throws, per PFF, ranked seventh in the NFL. His 5.7 big-time throw percentage was topped by only Josh Allen.

As for Jones, he recorded just eight big-time throws all season. That's the same as the likes of Marcus Mariota, Baker Mayfield, Mike White, and, yes, even Zach Wilson. Taylor Heinicke had more. So did P.J. Walker.

Rodgers was also significantly better under pressure and ranked as one of the best intermediate passers in the league. Once again, watching both play last season would tell you that, but why do that when you can just look at simple box scores?

After all, if we're using passer rating as a metric of analysis, as Brookover does, Tua Tagovailoa was the best QB in the NFL last season. Jimmy Garoppolo was the third-best QB in the league. Ryan Tannehill was better than Justin Herbert.

Even if you ignore Rodgers' injury and the fact that he was literally the league's MVP in each of the prior two seasons, Jones was still the inferior quarterback last year.

There should be no discussion. Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback who plays home games at MetLife Stadium. It's foolish to entertain any other claims.