Top ten quarterbacks....

[Guest gwf0704]

Not sure if it belongs in the sports section or Lists section so I'll leave it to the mods. But my humble opinion is:

 

1) Joe Montana - Mr Clutch who broke my heart when the 49ers beat the Cowboys with "the catch".

 

2) Dan Marino - He's got records for the passing records he broke!

 

3) John Elway - How many comebacks??? Just a great passer and player.

 

4) Roger Staubach - To me, the best quarterback the Cowboys ever had.

 

5) Terry Bradshaw - 4 Super Bowl rings. Nuff said.

 

6) Johnny Unitas - Legendary qb who was one of the great passers.

 

7) Steve Young - 2 Super Bowls and a bunch of passing records as well.

 

8) Brett Favre - One of the best still playing.

 

9) Jim Kelly - 4 straight Super Bowl appearances is still nothing to sneeze at, whether they lost them all or not.

 

10) Troy Aikman - To me it was more the system than anything else, but you cant argue with success.

 

Just my 2 cents....

[Guest Vern Gagne]

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Norm Van Brocklin

Otto Graham

Sonny Jurgensen

Bart Starr

[Guest DrTom]

Unitas at #6? That might be the most unintentionally funny thing I've read this week.

 

1. Johnny U. He was a field general before the term had been coined, the master of dissecting defenses, and had a knack for calling the right play. He also got a lot out of receivers who lacked the physical gifts a lot of their peers had.

 

2. Joe Montana. The best quarterback since Unitas, and the man who defined the pocket passer for the modern generation.

 

3. Sammy Baugh. A lot of people who saw him play swear he was the best of them all. I don't agree, but he was still damn good, and would have been damn good in any era.

 

4. Fran Tarkenton. A guy who doesn't get much press, despite holding about a bazillion records (some of which have since been broken). A good passer and a good runner, he was the prototype for the mobile QBs who are all the rage today.

 

5. Y.A. Tittle. Another old-timer who gets the short shrift from people who think Marino deserves to be on a top ten list. A great, gutsy competitor who played the position for a long time, and played it with a linebacker's mentality.

 

I'd probably round out the list with Roger Staubach, Bart Starr, John Elway, Norm van Brocklin, and Brett Favre.

[Guest YouDaFoo]

1. Dan Marino

2. Johnny Unitas

3. Joe Montana

4. Troy Akiman

[Guest snuffbox]

10.Otto Graham

9.Terry Bradshaw/Jim Kelly

8.YA Tittle

7.John Elway

6.Bart Starr

5.Joe Montana

4.Dan Marino

3.Johnny Unitas

2.Sammy Baugh

1.Brett Favre (this based on an assumption of 3-4 more productive years, and my own biased opinion)