More Facts About 400-yard Games
1943 was the first year a quarterback passed for at least 400 yards. In that season, only 40 regular-season games were played, plus one tiebreaker playoff game and the championship game. Since 2002, each NFL season has 267 games (including postseason play), giving 534 chances for a quarterback to try to achieve this milestone every year.
Of the 254 times a quarterback has earned 400 passing yards, only 54% have resulted in a win: 136 wins, 114 losses, 4 ties. The percentage of wins had been 60% (116 of 194 occurrences) prior to 2006, but has fallen to 33% (20 out of 60) since 2006. The number of 400-yard games has varied dramatically, from a high of 20 times in 2011 to just one in 2005, and none at all in some years (most recently 1979).
A quarterback with 400 yards has earned a passer rating of 100 or more 144 times, resulting in 100 wins and 1 tie; every quarterback whose rating has exceeded 131.2 (achieved 29 times) won that game. Only 12 times has a quarterback earned a rating of 140 or more: Peyton Manning did it twice, and has the highest-rated game in the postseason, with a 145.7, while Ken O'Brien threw for over 400 yards and a perfect passer rating of 158.3. Randall Cunningham has the two lowest-rated 400-yard games (50.5 and 52.0, both were losses).
Read more about this topic: List Of NFL Quarterbacks Who Have Passed For 400 Or More Yards In A Game
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