Where do you have Roger Staubach rated in your all-time NFL QB list?

[saturdaysarebetter]

Where do you have Roger Staubach rated in your all-time NFL QB list? I was glad to see he was among the 10 QBs chosen for the NFL's 100th anniversary team, but I think fans either didn't see him play or he's underrated in their thinking.

 

[CCBoy]

Before or after Viet Cong blew up his footballs in his tent?

A great man and Cowboy.

 

[Tabascocat]

Possibly top ten, maybe just outside of it. He is definitely top three for a representative of the NFL and what their image was at the time.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Top 10 easy and the best QB to ever take a snap under center in a Dallas Cowboy uniform.

 

[StarOfGlory]

He was a foundational piece for a league that began its ascent to popularity. He lost some of the best years of his career due to military service. He still accomplished much on the field, and I have no doubt that he is a top ten QB in league history. And my uncle played on his Naval Academy teams! Mr. Cowboy is the reason I became a football player and a Cowboy fan.

 

[atlantacowboy]

He was a foundational piece for a league that began its ascent to popularity. He lost some of the best years of his career due to military service. He still accomplished much on the field, and I have no doubt that he is a top ten QB in league history. And my uncle played on his Naval Academy teams! Mr. Cowboy is the reason I became a football player and a Cowboy fan.

I was around 6 when I first started watching Cowboy games and heard his name. We lived in a townhouse community in the Richardson area and there a guy who worked the property whose name was also Roger. In my 6 year old brain, I thought it was the same guy and kept asking for his autograph.

 

[gtb1943]

Joe Montana and Roger Staubach were legendary for the belief by their team mates that if they kept the game close, they would find a way to win it.

Time will tell if Mahomes gets the same legend.

For the two minute got to have a TD, they are one and one A in the history of the NFL.

So by that alone, both deserve to be in the top 10.

Leaving Cowboy sentiment out of it, I would say my top 5 QBs of all time have to include Brady. Then Roger and Joe; after that you could get one hell of an argument. I would be willing at this time to put Mahomes in it as his record is now. Time will tell if he can keep it up.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

He’s definitely top 20, probably top 15. Where he ends up will have a lot to do without how you view pre-SB era QBs: YA Tittle, Otto Graham, Sammy Baugh who all probably deserve to be top 10 alltime. But how do you compare eras? Best to just say SB era.

I have my top 7 pretty cemented, but
Is Staubach over Brees? Is Staubach over Rodgers?

My list I think would be….

1. Brady
2. Manning
3. Montana
4. Marino
5. Mahomes
6. Rodgers
7. Unitas
8. Elway
9. Young
10. Staubach

Am I missing anyone? Aikman and Bradshaw and Roethlisberger and Starr had a million rings but they weren’t the kind of QB these guys were. Tarkenton is good shout out, but I believe Young and Staubach were better. So until Lamar/Burrow/Allen build incumbency, Roger Dodger was a top 10 alltime QB.

 

[DallasEast]

My list will not extend beyond ten:

1. Tom Brady*
2. Joe Montana
3. Patrick Mahomes
4. Roger Staubach
5. Johnny Unitas
6. John Elway
7. Dan Marino
8. Brett Favre
9. Troy Aikman
10. Peyton Manning

* I give Brady the edge (and his flowers) over Montana in terms of total team championships but do not personally consider him the better quarterback of the two.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

My list will not extend beyond ten:

1. Tom Brady*
2. Joe Montana
3. Patrick Mahomes
4. Roger Staubach
5. Johnny Unitas
6. John Elway
7. Dan Marino
8. Brett Favre
9. Troy Aikman
10. Peyton Manning

* I give Brady the edge (and his flowers) over Montana in terms of total team championships but do not personally consider him the better quarterback of the two.

how close were you to leaving off Peyton Manning?

 

[DallasEast]

how close were you to leaving off Peyton Manning?

Good question. As much as I dislike admitting to it, I was leaning towards slipping Terry Bradshaw into that slot.

However, I stopped and considered who I would pick as the better passing technician between Manning and him. That decided it for me.

Bradshaw was a Hall of Fame quarterback (barf) but I judged a number of his best throws as luck growing up watching him. John Stallworth and Lynn Swann bailed him out time after time. Otherwise, his touchdown-to-interception ratio would be worse than it ended up.

 

[gtb1943]

Good question. As much as I dislike admitting to it, I was leaning towards slipping Terry Bradshaw into that slot.

However, I stopped and considered who I would pick as the better passing technician between Manning and him. That decided it for me.

Bradshaw was a Hall of Fame quarterback (barf) but I judged a number of his best throws as luck growing up watching him. John Stallworth and Lynn Swann bailed him out time after time. Otherwise, his touchdown-to-interception ratio would be worse than it ended up.

and you have to factor in as well how good a team a QB had and how good a HC he had.

Montana and Brady and Bradshaw were on absolutely stacked teams.
So were Roger and Troy
and those five also had HOF coaches

Rodgers for example did not have a HOF coach and not as good a team
Manning had a stacked team his last year when his arm was already dead

The team he won his other ring with was very good with a coach that is in the HOF but I frankly do not think he belongs

But then Manning never really turned it up a notch in the post season.

Elway is probably a real candidate for the top five and certainly the top ten as he never had a HOF coach and only late in his career did he have a top running game and D.