NFL All Time QBs: Where Cowboys QBs rank?

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Where do the Cowboys QBs rank among the Best All time QBs in NFL History:
( * still active)

1) Tom Brady *

2) Joe Montana

3) Peyton Manning

4) Aaron Rodgers*

5) Drew Brees *

6) Dan Marino

7) John Elway

8) Brett Favre

9) Dan Fouts

10) Pat Mahomes *

11 Steve Young

12 Kurt Warner

13) Roger Staubach

14) Terry Bradshaw

15) Ben Rothlisberger

16) Russell Wilson *

17) Jim Kelly

18) Randall Cunningham

19) Troy Aikman

20) Warren Moon

Honorable mention: Tony Romo, Joe Namath, Phillip Rivers, Eli Manning

I listed mine here in according to the ones I've seen play or had research to some extend. Its so really hard to count those I've never seen play or not enough research tools available; ala YA Tittle, Jonny Unitas, Sammy Baugh, Fran Tarketon, Otto Graham, Sid Luckman Bart Starr etc. etc.
 
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I’m surprised Kurt Warner and Randall Cunningham are on the list.

Dak must not be eligible because of his injury.
 

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Rodgers and Brees always blow it in the playoffs. Their offense is too easy to stop. 1 Super Bowl each isn't good enough for their era. No way they should be that high. That's also not counting the fact that they've never even been to a 2nd Super Bowl.

Aikman is better than 19. Staubach below Mahomes? Get out of here. Let's see how his career plays out first.
 

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Where do the Cowboys QBs rank among the Best All time QBs in NFL History:
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1) Tom Brady *

2) Aaron Rodgers *

3) Joe Montana

4) Peyton manning

5) Drew Brees *

6) Dan Marino

7) John Elway

8) Brett Favre

9) Dan Fouts

10) Pat Mahomes *

11 Steve Young

12 Kurt Warner

13) Roger Staubach

14) Terry Bradshaw

15) Ben Rothlisberger

16) Russell Wilson *

17) Jim Kelly

18) Randall Cunningham

19) Troy Aikman

20) Warren Moon

Honorable mention: Tony Romo, Joe Namath, Phillip Rivers, Eli Manning

I listed mine here in according to the ones I've seen play or had research to some extend. Its so really hard to count those I've never seen play or not enough research tools available; ala YA Tittle, Jonny Unitas, Sammy Baugh, Fran Tarketon, Otto Graham, Sid Luckman Bart Starr etc. etc.

There so much wrong with this list.........

OK, well, whatever.
 
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Where do the Cowboys QBs rank among the Best All time QBs in NFL History:
( * still active)

1) Tom Brady *

2) Aaron Rodgers *

3) Joe Montana

4) Peyton manning

5) Drew Brees *

6) Dan Marino

7) John Elway

8) Brett Favre

9) Dan Fouts

10) Pat Mahomes *

11 Steve Young

12 Kurt Warner

13) Roger Staubach

14) Terry Bradshaw

15) Ben Rothlisberger

16) Russell Wilson *

17) Jim Kelly

18) Randall Cunningham

19) Troy Aikman

20) Warren Moon

Honorable mention: Tony Romo, Joe Namath, Phillip Rivers, Eli Manning

I listed mine here in according to the ones I've seen play or had research to some extend. Its so really hard to count those I've never seen play or not enough research tools available; ala YA Tittle, Jonny Unitas, Sammy Baugh, Fran Tarketon, Otto Graham, Sid Luckman Bart Starr etc. etc.
LOL at Staubach outside of the top 10 and behind Favre, Fouts, Warner, and Young. This list sucks. Staubach is a top 10 all time QB, no question.
 

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Lists like this annoy me. I'm certain it was made by someone who never saw Staubach play live. You can't compare quarterbacks of different eras because the game has changed so much. Staubach played almost his entire career before the infamous bump and run rule change. You used to be able to rough up a receiver as much as you wanted until the ball was in the air. Plus, quarterbacks didn't enjoy anywhere near the protection they have now. QBs regularly got brutally slammed to the turf and it was totally legal. We're now in a pass happy league with QBs very well protected by newer rules. In Staubach's time, it was a grind-it-out on the ground game mostly, and if you went to pass, it was way riskier. To point, when Coach Landry brought in the shotgun formation in 1975, it was a bold and unusual move in such a running league. I'm not putting down current greats like Brady. I'm only saying the game is so different that you can't compare them. It's a little bit like comparing American football players to rugby players.
 

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Disagree with the order. Staubach should be top ten, and I’d take Aikman over Farve, Warner, Bradshaw and Cunningham, at the very least!

I usually get flamed for this but as glad as I am that Aikman is in the Hall of Fame as a Cowboy player, I didn't think Aikman was in the class of HOF'ers such Favre, Warner, Young, Brees, Manning, etc.
and he wasn't an MVP guy either. But he was very good - but not HOF great, but very good,..imo.
Cunningham was actually league MVP of the NFL in Minnesota.

Roger the elusive Dodger was improvising magic in the final 2 minutes of game as one of the league's comeback kids in the clutch. i see some ahead of him though.

I'm so glad for tools such as YouTube as it offers full games from the 70's era that I've never seen or remember when I was young kid watching NFL growing up.
 

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Staubach had 2 rings and was the most efficient passer in league history when he retired, AND an effective rusher. He goes ahead of basically every active player not named Brady right now, ahead of Favre, Fouts, Warner for sure.

Rodgers is basically Staubach without the comebacks and 1 less ring, Brees is on a lower tier as well. Mahomes is way too early in his career to put on a HOF level.
 

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Lists like this annoy me. I'm certain it was made by someone who never saw Staubach play live. You can't compare quarterbacks of different eras because the game has changed so much. Staubach played almost his entire career before the infamous bump and run rule change. You used to be able to rough up a receiver as much as you wanted until the ball was in the air. Plus, quarterbacks didn't enjoy anywhere near the protection they have now. QBs regularly got brutally slammed to the turf and it was totally legal. We're now in a pass happy league with QBs very well protected by newer rules.

In Staubach's time, it was a grind-it-out on the ground game mostly, and if you went to pass, it was way riskier. To point, when Coach Landry brought in the shotgun formation in 1975, it was a bold and unusual move in such a running league. I'm not putting down current greats like Brady. I'm only saying the game is so different that you can't compare them. It's a little bit like comparing American football players to rugby players.

Landry utilized the Shotgun formation than any other NFL team of that era, he did not create it if that's what you're implying as" brought in"
He used it as a more frequent weapon than the rest of the NFL in that era..
 
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