Marino then Namath. Romo gets rid of the ball quickly, but Marino could throw a deep ball while being hit hard. I remember one play where Jack Lambert in his last game blitzed hard and fast and nailed Marino to the ground. Marino had the ball when Lambert hit him, by the time they hit the ground an instant later the ball was twenty yards downfield and caught by Mark Duper.
Lambert just shook his head in disbelief; it was like a new era had arrived in that moment.
Another thing I remember was the QB competition one year where there was a timed obstacle course and at the end of it you had to throw the ball at a bullseye. Marino was razzing Randall Cunningham before the start, jokingly claiming he would own the very fast and mobile Cunningham and beat his time on the drill. Cunningham was of course an amazingly athlete and when he ran the course he nailed the bullseye at the end of it and was leading the competition by a mile. Then Marino went, and was predictably slow and ponderous running the obstacles, but at the finish line the ball rocketed out of his hands and nailed the bullseye. It was like lightning, the instant Marino's foot hit the finish line the ball was out of his hands. Marino won the drill. Everyone was shocked, except Marino who knew what he was talking about.
