The 20 Greatest Quarterbacks In NFL History

[Melonfeud]

Len Dawson.........

Copy& thanks!
I think D.F 666 refreshed my memory awhile back on that mental lapse.

 

[Ranched]

lmao: on your Namath views)

Len Dawson is that mans name,thanks bro

Well....he did beat them Colts.

 

[Stryker44]

YOU DONT PUT THAT PRETTY BOY ***** TOM BRADY AHEAD OF JOE MONTANA. EVER!!!!!!!

 

[diefree666]

YOU DONT PUT THAT PRETTY BOY ***** TOM BRADY AHEAD OF JOE MONTANA. EVER!!!!!!!

no one should. tom Brady was the luckiest QB in history; landing where he did when he did. I think there are several QBs playing right now that could have matched or exceeded what he has done if put in the same place at the same time. He had a great D protecting him his first few years and was basically a bus driver. So he had lots of time to learn his craft with relatively little pressure. And he is SUCH a whiner. For years the NFL quietly made it clear he was protected; it was not until after Deflate Gate that players knew they could hit him without getting flagged or fined. That is why he has survived this long. Peyton Manning worked it so that he did not get hit much and that was why he lasted so long.

 

[sean10mm]

You want to talk about lucky?

Montana worked for a HOF coach who invented an entirely new offensive scheme that nobody knew how to properly defend for years, and he played on one of the most loaded teams in NFL history. His #1 receiver was THE GREATEST WIDE RECEIVER OF ALL TIME.

But LOL Brady was the lucky one, OK. The guy playing in an offensive scheme (Erhardt-Perkins) that has existed since the 1970s, the guy who spent much of his peak years throwing to complete scrubs, the guy who had an elite running back exactly once (2004), that's the guy who had it easy and not Joe "MY TEAMS HAD HALL OF FAMERS EVERYWHERE" Montana.

 

[Pape]

So he had lots of time to learn his craft with relatively little pressure.

No pressure? From Belichick? Could other quarterbacks have done what Brady has done? Maybe, but the difference is Brady did do it.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Where does Dak fall in this?

 

[Melonfeud]

Where does Dak fall in this?

Well,ya know?
If Dak were to purchase a set of " athletic performance enhancing sleepware" that is the brain child & creation of TOM BRADY'S, he'd probably start factoring into it pretty quickly, kinda like when you first started forcing yourself to chew up that fingernail sized portion of BEE POLLEN every day,so I figure if Dak were to seek the obvious benefits of TOM BRADY'S brand of " athletic performance enhancing sleepware" about 30 days,,,

 

[diefree666]

You want to talk about lucky?

Montana worked for a HOF coach who invented an entirely new offensive scheme that nobody knew how to properly defend for years, and he played on one of the most loaded teams in NFL history. His #1 receiver was THE GREATEST WIDE RECEIVER OF ALL TIME.

But LOL Brady was the lucky one, OK. The guy playing in an offensive scheme (Erhardt-Perkins) that has existed since the 1970s, the guy who spent much of his peak years throwing to complete scrubs, the guy who had an elite running back exactly once (2004), that's the guy who had it easy and not Joe "MY TEAMS HAD HALL OF FAMERS EVERYWHERE" Montana.

BS. Teams figured out how to defend the West Coast system in just a couple of years; the difference was the coach and the QB
And the talent on that first SF team was not all that. You DO remember Rice and others came several years later- or do you?
And by the way this was before the CAP and FA and you could keep players for years on peanuts. So you are overall full of crap

 

[Pape]

BS. Teams figured out how to defend the West Coast system in just a couple of years; the difference was the coach and the QB
And the talent on that first SF team was not all that. You DO remember Rice and others came several years later- or do you?
And by the way this was before the CAP and FA and you could keep players for years on peanuts. So you are overall full of crap

The talent on the first SF team wasn't all that? Guess you could be right, but were the 2001 Patriots really "all that" either? Good grief.... And yes you are right, Jerry Rice wasn't there for the first two SF Super Bowls, but he was there for the last two Montana Super Bowls and the Young Super Bowl. To try and make it sound as if he barely contributed to the 49ers is disingenuous.

And not sure where you are going with the second point here.... Things harder with or without free agency/the salary cap? Plan B free agency protected teams one could argue, but teams did not have to deal with the cap either.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

He'd amassed phenomenal passing yardage if my memory serves me well

No one would take Warren Moon over Roger Staubach. No one that’s just insane. Yeah he played for a long time and was a solid starting QB. But Staubach was truly an all time great.

 

[Melonfeud]

No one would take Warren Moon over Roger Staubach. No one that’s just insane. Yeah he played for a long time and was a solid starting QB. But Staubach was truly an all time great.

I'm hoping yer' not implying that's what I was projecting, friend ! cuz' it's not even remotely ON the same planetary hemisphere,,, Warren Moon amassed some pretty goodly amounts of combined Q.B passing yardage from the C F L &
N F L,,, if you see " between the lines" that I'm saying anything different than that, then I suggest you put yer' " between the lines" detector in the shop for servicing/ recalibration,,,,

 

[diefree666]

The talent on the first SF team wasn't all that? Guess you could be right, but were the 2001 Patriots really "all that" either? Good grief.... And yes you are right, Jerry Rice wasn't there for the first two SF Super Bowls, but he was there for the last two Montana Super Bowls and the Young Super Bowl. To try and make it sound as if he barely contributed to the 49ers is disingenuous.

And not sure where you are going with the second point here.... Things harder with or without free agency/the salary cap? Plan B free agency protected teams one could argue, but teams did not have to deal with the cap either.

Hey I happen to know who was on those first teams and clearly YOU don't. But then again not surprising.
FA and the CAP have made things much more complicated. Which is why you see few teams consistently contending. Back in the early 80's you had legitimately 6 teams that were really good and had been. In the NFC you had the Boys and 49rs and Skins who were in it every year; AFC you had the Steelers right at the end of their dynasty; the Raiders who won 2 SBs and and of course you had Denver which made several SBs on Elways arm but got wacked in each one until they got a D and Davis. Sprinkled in there were one year teams like Cinci and the eagles.

Now in the NFL you really only have about 4 teams that consistently contend for the SB. Pats and Steelers and GB and Seattle in the last 5 years. In that time frame Denver rose and fell from SB contenders for several years to a losing team.

So its a lot easier in some ways to get to the playoffs and contend but it is clearly much harder to maintain as a contender. SF was probably the only team that was legitmately a SB contender for all ten years say from 1981 to 1991. Washington was right there as well if just slightly behind. You have to give cudos to Gibbs for winning three with three different QBs- though the strike years need asterisks.

 

[dfense]

1A. Tony Romo

Romo has more TDs than a bunch of guys on this list.

 

[EaglesFan1]

Brett Favre is not better than any of the players that came before him. Better than Aikman and Staubach. I don't think so.

People forget Favre won the MVP 3 years in a row, He was phenomenal when young.

 

[Mad_max]

Well....he did beat them Colts.

Awwww you just think he is cute.

 

[Pape]

Hey I happen to know who was on those first teams and clearly YOU don't. But then again not surprising.
FA and the CAP have made things much more complicated. Which is why you see few teams consistently contending. Back in the early 80's you had legitimately 6 teams that were really good and had been. In the NFC you had the Boys and 49rs and Skins who were in it every year; AFC you had the Steelers right at the end of their dynasty; the Raiders who won 2 SBs and and of course you had Denver which made several SBs on Elways arm but got wacked in each one until they got a D and Davis. Sprinkled in there were one year teams like Cinci and the eagles.

Now in the NFL you really only have about 4 teams that consistently contend for the SB. Pats and Steelers and GB and Seattle in the last 5 years. In that time frame Denver rose and fell from SB contenders for several years to a losing team.

So its a lot easier in some ways to get to the playoffs and contend but it is clearly much harder to maintain as a contender. SF was probably the only team that was legitmately a SB contender for all ten years say from 1981 to 1991. Washington was right there as well if just slightly behind. You have to give cudos to Gibbs for winning three with three different QBs- though the strike years need asterisks.

Please do not presume to think you know what I do or do not know. I have probably forgotten more about the 2001 Patriots than you have ever know, or ever will know. And the '81 49ers are a team that started the wco because thats when Montana finally took over the starters role on the 9ers, so of course its widely researched and talked about, so basically pfffft to you

It is much harder for a franchise to build and maintain a consistent contender today. Plan B free agency pretty much put a kibosh on building a team thru any other method besides the draft. One might think that with free agency its easier to build a team that can contend, but ultimately that's not the case. Teams have to balance who've they lost and gained, and balance that all on an excel spreadsheet. What the Patriots have done has defied expectations - not because they built a contender, but that they have maintained it for such a long period of time. Only a few current teams have managed to come close to those achievements, but none have approached to overall dominance that the Patriots have shown.

That consistency is based on the Brady/Belichick combination. They work together better than any other qb/coach duo. The only ones that rival it are montana/walsh and starr/lombardi.

 

[cowboyec]

no Don Meredith or Danny White?

thanx alot goodell...you puke.

 

[kskboys]

The talent on the first SF team wasn't all that? Guess you could be right, but were the 2001 Patriots really "all that" either? Good grief.... And yes you are right, Jerry Rice wasn't there for the first two SF Super Bowls, but he was there for the last two Montana Super Bowls and the Young Super Bowl. To try and make it sound as if he barely contributed to the 49ers is disingenuous.

And not sure where you are going with the second point here.... Things harder with or without free agency/the salary cap? Plan B free agency protected teams one could argue, but teams did not have to deal with the cap either.

The talent on the first SF team wasn't all that? Guess you could be right, but were the 2001 Patriots really "all that" either? Good grief.... And yes you are right, Jerry Rice wasn't there for the first two SF Super Bowls, but he was there for the last two Montana Super Bowls and the Young Super Bowl. To try and make it sound as if he barely contributed to the 49ers is disingenuous.

And not sure where you are going with the second point here.... Things harder with or without free agency/the salary cap? Plan B free agency protected teams one could argue, but teams did not have to deal with the cap either.

Both teams were stacked.

The 01 Pats were a veritable Who's Who on D. And that's how they won the super bowls, D.

Least talented team I can think of who won the super bowl? Prolly the 12 Ravens.

 

[Ranched]

YOU DONT PUT THAT PRETTY BOY ***** TOM BRADY AHEAD OF JOE MONTANA. EVER!!!!!!!