I think this may have been an attempt to show that if Kelly had been judged on QB stats alone, people would be screaming "off with his head!" (and they were at times).
Like you, Gerry, I was really hoping this season and this team was going to head in the direction of 1986, not 1984, sigh.
BTW: I was looking at stats for the hell of this before reading this post.
STATS for EJ and a 1988 Kelly were quite similar, but the TEAM win/loss record was 12-4 and they had the "blizzard defense" too!
I have not given up on EJ, but I am also not sold.