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Offline AKDejaVu

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« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2002, 08:23:46 AM »
Way before my time... which is the downside to "who's the best".

I think we always remember our favorites as being better than they actually were.  We then weigh the modern quarterbacks against fond memories.

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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2002, 09:12:07 AM »
I think the big problem with "best" QB, is how the passing game has changed over the years. Dan Fouts would have fallen asleep with all the short outs and ball control passes that made Montana a monster to play against.  That doesn't even get into "Favorite vs. Best" It's hard to drag your subjective opinion out of a question like that. For example... I'd reather watch Stan Humphries toss the ball deep, compleat with his 75 carreer QB passer rating, than watch Steve Young dink, dunk and run all day long.

So when I say Elway was the best, I say it with all the above considerations. He was playing "during my era" he represents the evolution of the passing game that makes him hard to compare with QBs from the 70s and before, and perhaps I've just seen more of him (since he was an AFC West QB during most of my Football Watching days)

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« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2002, 09:14:21 AM »
Unitas.
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« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2002, 10:24:40 AM »
Farve without a doubt

his record at home is incredible.

his starting streak will probably never be touched.
(and he's still going)

Lifetime QB rating as good as any

3x MVP in a row (only to ever do that)
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« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2002, 10:58:05 AM »
Otto Graham- he won like 10 championships in a row. There was never a QB as dominant for as long as Otto Graham was.

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« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2002, 11:21:48 AM »

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« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2002, 11:30:25 AM »
Bradshaw
Staubach

nuff said

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« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2002, 02:22:40 PM »
So many variables.

Otto Graham - Played on the most dominant team of the era hard to say what he was capable of if he were with a lesser team.

Slinging Sammy Baugh - My god there still has never been another pure passer like him.

Johnny U. - The man was a winner, called his own plays, good teams, bad teams, whatever, he won.  Played in the non wuss era, no face cages just a single bar, no halo rules, no rib pads, no roughing the QB calls, In today's game the man might be a god.

Joe Montana - Another winner, not always surrounded with the "best" talent (except the offensive line).  The man made the system work, the system made the man a star.  Had that intangible ability to carry a team on his back when things were not going well, and the ability to get every ounce out of the team. Leadership far more important than raw talent.

All the others ... well that is why they are the others.
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« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2002, 02:32:37 PM »
well... at least nobody has said "Joe Namath".

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« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2002, 02:59:12 PM »
Burt Reynolds- did you see the way he passed the ball in "The Longest Yard?"

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« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2002, 07:28:41 PM »
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well... at least nobody has said "Joe Namath".


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« Reply #26 on: October 28, 2002, 07:41:34 PM »
LOL!

Well.. if you said Joe.. it might as well be nobody. ;)

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« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2002, 09:40:20 PM »
Staubach
Unitas
Marino