PTI and Quarterbacks

[istewart]

If you watched PTI yesterday, which you should all have done, you remember their little thing on Brady and other great QBs. Out of the following quarterbacks, which were the only ones they mentioned, rank them, starting with the best.

Steve Young
Troy Aikman
Brett Favre
Terry Bradshaw
Dan Marino
Tom Brady
Joe Montana
John Elway

(I'm not sure Brady is yet on this list, but he assuredly is if he wins on the 6th.)

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Elway
Montana
Bradshaw
Favre
Aikman
Brady
Young
Marino
P Manning (he didn't make their list)

[jakethebake]

I'm not sure what the ranking is based on, but I'm gonna say if I were coaching the SuperBowl I'd choose them as a starter in this order:

Montana
Favre
Marino
Brady
Elway
Young
Aikman
Bradshaw

[M2d]

Is it a win-one-game thing or a choose-a-QB-for-your-franchise thing?

I'm going with:
Montana
Bradshaw
Elway
Brady
Aikman
Young
Favre
Marino

for one game and

Montana
Elway
Marino
Young
Aikman
Favre
Bradshaw
Brady

for the franchise thing

[Clarkmeister]

Joe Montana
John Elway
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Steve Young
Tom Brady
Brett Favre
Terry Bradshaw
Troy Aikman
Dan Marino

[johnnybeef]

Montana
Bradshaw
Elway
Marino
Favre
Brady
Young
Aikman

[MEbenhoe]

Montana
Elway
Favre
Bradshaw
Young
Brady
Marino
Aikman

[swede123]

Gasp! What, no mention of Jake Plummer???

Cheers,

Swede

[Rick Diesel]

John Elway
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
Brett Favre
Steve Young
Tom Brady
Troy Aikman
Terry Bradshaw

The only choices that I am fairly comfortable with is that Elway was the best, and Bradshaw was the worst. I could listen to any arguement placing the other six in any of the 2-7 spots.

[Daliman]

Elway
Marino
Young
Montana
Favre
Bradshaw
Aikman
Brady

[anisotropy]

Elway
Montana
Bradshaw
Young
Marino
Brady
Aikmen
Favre

[CCass]

The fact that Bradshaw might be ranked above any of these guys blows my mind.

For 1 game and 1 game only:

Montana
Elway
Favre
Marino
Aikman
Young
Brady
Bradshaw

to build a franchise:

Montana
Elway
Marino
Aikman
Favre
Young
Brady
Bradshaw

[wonderwes]

If you do not have Joe Montana at the top of the list, you are freaking nuts. I can accept elway since he went to 5 superbowls. Montana's stat for superbowls. 16 TD's (is that right?) and ZERO int's. Uh yeah, he was the greatest ever.

Montana
Elway
Aikman
Farve
Bradshaw.

I guess we wont see Trent Dilfer is not on this list.

BTW- Watch <font color="red"> PTI</font> every day. It will make your life better.

[M2d]

How does Bradshaw not beat at least Favre and Marino in the 1 game only category?

[jakethebake]

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How does Bradshaw not beat at least Favre and Marino in the 1 game only category?

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Because he doesn't.

[Rick Diesel]

Bradshaw was not that good. He had the best defense ever, a great running game, and two great receivers. He threw a pretty good deep ball, but that was it. Most of the time he just threw the ball up for grabs and Stallworth and Swann went and got it. He is highly overrated, and definitely the worst on the list.

[CCass]

I could throw it up in the air 40 yards downfield and watch Swann and/or Stallworth make some unbelievable catch.

Ok, maybe I couldn't, but Bradshaw was a decent QB on a great team, with receivers that could go up and get the ball. There are several QB's not even on this list that were better than Bradshaw.

[BeerMoney]

Steve Grogan
Tom Brady
Doug Flutie
Todd Marinovich

[jakethebake]

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Bradshaw was not that good. He had the best defense ever, a great running game, and two great receivers. He threw a pretty good deep ball, but that was it. Most of the time he just threw the ball up for grabs and Stallworth and Swann went and got it. He is highly overrated, and definitely the worst on the list.

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Not that I disagree with this argument, but let's see what did Montana have to work with?

[jakethebake]

[ QUOTE ]
Doug Flutie

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[M2d]

Scoreboard

[Rick Diesel]

Montana obviously had great receivers, but they ran mostly precise shorter routes that required great timing and accuracy. Most of their yards came after the catch, so hitting the receivers in stride was necessary. Yes, he had great receivers, but he was also a large part in how good they were.

[West]

I like your answer.

[Victor]

I think Otto Graham won like 9 title games in one decade.

Bart Starr won some big games too.

[NoPeak]

[ QUOTE ]

Steve Grogan
Tom Brady
Doug Flutie
Todd Marinovich

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Flutie is so much better than these other three losers.

[jakethebake]

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Steve Grogan
Tom Brady
Doug Flutie
Todd Marinovich

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Flutie is so much better than these other three losers.

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Right. He's the best loser on that list...except for Brady.

[NoChance]

This is a story that appeared the week before last year's Super Bowl. It includes playoffs, not just Super Bowls, but interesting none-the-less.

QB Rankings (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/2004playoffsQB.html)

Now, I am sure Brady has worked his way on to that list by now but for those of you who keep putting Bradswaw near the bottom, all he did was win....I hear that about Brady quite often lately but it isn't good enough for Bradshaw?

And for all those QBs with just one super bowl win...I say to you "your sample size is too small".

[RogerZBT]

Joe Montana
John Elway
Terry Bradshaw
Troy Aikman
Brett Favre
Dan Marino
Tom Brady
Steve Young


I agree with Clark that there's a huge drop-off between 2 and 3. It's almost big enough that it really just doesn't matter after that.

[NoPeak]

Montana
Elway
Marino
Favre
Aikman
Young


Bradshaw





















Brady

[DCIAce]

Montana
Elway
Favre
Marino
Young
Aikman
Bradshaw
Brady

[PhatTBoll]

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Not that I disagree with this argument, but let's see what did Montana have to work with?

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In Montana's first superbowl year, his best WR was Freddie Solomon, and his backs were Wendell Tyler and Lenvil Elliott.

[lapoker17]

It's appalling how little respect Young gets. Montana, fine, but after him I want Steve Young.