Look at Andy Dalton making some New Orleans Saints history. The veteran quarterback helped his team defeat the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday with an efficient performance that the numbers say was better than it looked — as observed by Nola.com’s Luke Johnson, Dalton’s 149.6 passer rating from this win is the highest single-game performance from any quarterback in the league this year (minimum 20 attempts). He completed 21 of 25 attempts for 260 yards with 3 touchdown passes.
For context, a perfect passer rating is 158.3. The only quarterback in Saints history to accomplish that is Drew Brees, per Stathead, who went 18-of-23 for 371 yards with 5 touchdown passes and no interceptions against the New England Patriots back in 2009. Dalton’s passer rating on Sunday was the highest of all Saints quarterbacks dating back to Brees’ game with the Indianapolis Colts in 2019, when he completed 29 of 30 passes for 307 yards with 4 touchdown passes and no interceptions (resulting in a passer rating of 148.9).
