Typical Peter King Stupidity

Here we go again.  SI writer Peter King ranks all the starting quarterbacks in the NFL.  I'm pasting his top 12 below.  Why top 12, you ask?  Let's see:

1 – P. Manning
2 – T. Brady
3 – D. Brees
4 – C. Palmer
5 – M. Bulger
6 – M. Hasselbeck
7 – V. Young*
8 – P. Rivers*
9 – J. Kitna *
10 – J. Cutler*
11 – T. Romo*
12 – D. McNabb

And of course, here's the obligatory lame-ass reasoning:

It's not that I don't like Donovan McNabb. I do. I just don't trust him to stay healthy. I rank the Eagles' QB 12th because I have no confidence that McNabb, at 30 and having missed a combined 13 games over the last two years, will be upright in December.

So that's why he's got him ranked below five guys who haven't even been starters for two years (that's what the stars mean).  Look, quarterbacks get hurt.  It's why the league has changed so many rules over the past few years to try to keep them healthy.  Palmer had a worse knee injury than McNabb, but I guess that wasn't enough to keep him out of the #4 spot.  Brees had an awful shoulder injury, and even dislocated his non-throwing elbow in last year's Pro Bowl, but he's not injury-prone either?

I'll give you Brady and Manning, however.

Oh, and he gives McNabb a "7" for intangibles.  He gave Favre an "8." 

Guess intangibles doesn't equate to not throwing stupid passes into triple coverage just when your team looked like might have a chance to come back and win.  And clearly it doesn't equate to veteran savvy, since Philip Rivers, AKA the Human Handoff Machine, also rates a 7.

King's a greater writer and I like his stuff, but he's got his head up his ass on this one.

Pardon the language.