25 Most Criticized QBs in NFL History

[RecoveringCowboy]

http://uk.complex.com/sports/2014/11/most-criticized-quarterbacks-nfl-history/geno-smith

...I'm familiar with #1 on the list - why he should have gone from that circus to a good team.

Peyton's only #24

 

[Sparetire]

Really? no TFB? i could have sworn he'd be top5...

 

[meatface]

I don't really see why geno makes the list. He is a second year player who hasn't really done anything in the league, that's not uncommon.

 

[Mike the Brit]

Lousy article. No principle of selection, no sense of history. You think Flacco is criticized? Try Kyle Boller.

I'd say that there are three sorts of quarterback who get criticized.

Good quarterbacks who aren't quite good enough to put the team on their back and win a Superbowl (Bledsoe).

Poor to mediocre quarterbacks on otherwise very good teams who hold the team back (Boller)

Quarterbacks who are just plain lousy but, for some reason, the team sticks with (JaMarcus Russell)​

Though I suppose you could add a fourth

Quarterbacks who are such obvious douchebags that they are universally criticized before even taking a snap (step up to the podium Mr Johnny "Football" Manziel).​

 

[Uncle Rico]

Lousy article. No principle of selection, no sense of history. You think Flacco is criticized? Try Kyle Boller.

Yeah, way too weighted toward the present. Dating myself here, but I seem to remember Jim Plunkett being quite the whipping boy.

 

[everlong]

The thing I always hate about these lists is they're always so heavily weighted towards current players. Danny White replacing Roger Staubach is top 5 in my mind. Steve Young replacing Joe Montana again top 5. Bradshaw before all of his success was getting killed. Randall Cunningham used to get crushed during his Philly days.

The Manning's making the list is a joke. For every negative thing written or said about either there's at least what 10 nice things? And I think that's conservative in the case of Peyton. Even this year Rogers and Brady took way more criticism than Manning has for their slow starts than Peyton did for laying an egg in St Louis. BTW I wouldn't put Brady on the list either even with some of the criticism this year because overall he's been treated pretty well by the media just not at the Peyton @ss kissing level.

 

[1960Pats]

Yeah, way too weighted toward the present. Dating myself here, but I seem to remember Jim Plunkett being quite the whipping boy.

When I saw the title of the article I thought for sure Plunkit would be there.

This part bothered me when they discussed the selection of Peyton "One-and-done" Manning at #24;
We debated over whether or not to include Manning and/or Tom Brady on this list. And while we ultimately left Brady off of it—despite the fact that he's received a lot of criticism for all kinds of things over the years—we decided to include Manning because, for all that he's accomplished, he's also been saddled with criticism for almost his entire career.

Brady has received criticism for all kinds of things over the years? Really? Like what? And what does Brady have to do with the selection of Manning anyway?

And poor Peyton, for all that he's accomplished, he's also been saddled with criticism for almost his entire career. Gee, I wonder why. Maybe the one and dones have something to do with it.

Manning made his bed and now he gets to sleep in it.

 

[tasmlab]

In Brady's recent interview with randy moss (townienews.com, good watch) he says that the criticism after Kansas city game was basically the only time he's heard a lot of criticism in his career. It's pretty true. Sometimes there's some grumbling after the lost Super Bowls, but even then there are thirty starting QBs who didn't even go to the Super Bowl.

 

[fnordcircle]

"The 20 most criticized QBs currently playing plus 5 other random retired QBs so the list isn't so obviously focused on the players of today."

 

[Boston Boxer]

I don't really see why geno makes the list. He is a second year player who hasn't really done anything in the league, that's not uncommon.

i think Geno Smith would do a whole lot better in a Chip Kelly offense...plus i am not sure how you can evaluate him playing on that terrible Jets team.

 

[VrabelJr]

i think Geno Smith would do a whole lot better in a Chip Kelly offense...plus i am not sure how you can evaluate him playing on that terrible Jets team.

Watch him play. He looks lost out there.

 

[RayClay]

Arbitrary, stupid, showing a lack of knowledge of even recent NFL history. Nobody criticized Namath in his prime for partying. If anything, he got the same response as Lincoln gave about the hard drinking general Grant (paraphrase) "find out what he's drinking and get some for the other generals."

 

[TBR]

Complex is a joke of a website. I would not take this article seriously.

 

[rochrist]

Watch him play. He looks lost out there.

That's standard with the Jets though. I really believe that the Jets, as currently constituted, are QB killers. Not that I think Geno would be great away from NY, but I'd be willing to bet he'd look a lot better. They have NO idea how to develop a QB.

 

[RDS11]

... Nobody criticized Namath in his prime for partying.

Nobody, except his own teammates ! Gerry Philbin has said many times he wasn't a fan of Namath back then, neither were most of the Jets' defensive players.

 

[VrabelJr]

If Phil Simms and Joe Namath didn't play for teams centered around the most egotistical city on the planet, nobody would give two ****s about them.

While I'm here, "complex" is a perfect name for that website. When did displaying a list of things become so damn complicated? I had to switch from Firefox to Chrome just to get the page to load.

 

[Boston Boxer]

Watch him play. He looks lost out there.

So did Sanchez...but now, not so much

 

[VrabelJr]

So did Sanchez...but now, not so much

Sanchez has displayed flashes. Geno has never looked good.

 

[lurker1965]

On Ben Roethlesberger: "People say he is no Peyton Manning." So is that a bad thing?

 

[RayClay]

Nobody, except his own teammates ! Gerry Philbin has said many times he wasn't a fan of Namath back then, neither were most of the Jets' defensive players.

Not a fan? In what way? I never heard that. Do you have some sort of verification? Namath was a pretty damn good player.