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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.It's a bad list but, looking at some of the complaints and proposed alternatives in this thread, I find that I don't want most of you making the evaluations any more than I want to creator(s) of that list doing it.
Bart Starr isn't on the list but Alex Smith and Carson Palmer are?
20 too
Oh you think that's bad....#9 Terry Bradshaw
51.9% career completion rate
212 TDs
210 INTs
Oh you think that's bad....
#7 Joe Namath:
50.1% career completion rate
173 TD
220 INT
People say Julian Edelman shouldn't be in the hall of fame. But the only reason Joe Namath is in the hall of fame is because of his guarantee. So why shouldn't Edelman be a HoFer simply for his playoff performance?
A lot of things are more important than stats. In football. The validity of stats and reliance on them in baseball has bastardized the value people put in them in football.It's a joke.
Winning and Super Bowls are 10X more important that stats
Mostly being in the top 10 in most stats in most seasons isn’t what makes me think top 7 all time. Top 7 of the era maybe.#7 for Namath is nutty, but uh you can't just compare stats from the NFL's Dead Ball Era to the passing numbers today. For his era he was a good player, even if he got way overhyped because of the guarantee.
His # of Top 10 seasons by stat:
Completions: 7
Attempts: 7
Yards: 8
Touchdowns: 8
Passer rating: 5
Yards/attempt: 7
Yards/completion: 8
Adjusted yards/attempt: 6
Completion %: 5
Comebacks: 6
Game winning drives 6
Total offense: 8
Until the end of his career when he was totally busted, his interception % was either league average or a bit better while everything else was in the top 5-10. Heck, he had 5 seasons in the top 10 LEAST intercepted QBs by % of throws.
Brady's even numbered and odd numbered seasons each get into the HOF separately.
Even Brady: 4x SB champ (2004, 2014, 2016, 2018) 2x Super Bowl MVP (2014, 2016), 1x MVP (2010, unanimous!) 1x 1st Team All-Pro (2010) 6x Pro Bowl (2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Odd Brady: 2x SB champ (2001, 2003) 2x Super Bowl MVP (2001, 2003) 2x MVP (2007, 2017) 2x 1st Team All-Pro (2007, 2017) 8x Pro Bowl (2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), Comeback Player of the Year (2009)
A lot of things are more important than stats. In football. The validity of stats and reliance on them in baseball has bastardized the value people put in them in football.
In baseball you do mostly the same thing 600 times and it’s you against the pitcher. Football is nothing like that and stats have questionable value without loads of context that is necessary for them to be meaningful.[/QUOTE]
#7 for Namath is nutty, but uh you can't just compare stats from the NFL's Dead Ball Era to the passing numbers today. For his era he was a good player, even if he got way overhyped because of the guarantee.
His # of Top 10 seasons by stat:
Completions: 7
Attempts: 7
Yards: 8
Touchdowns: 8
Passer rating: 5
Yards/attempt: 7
Yards/completion: 8
Adjusted yards/attempt: 6
Completion %: 5
Comebacks: 6
Game winning drives 6
Total offense: 8
Until the end of his career when he was totally busted, his interception % was either league average or a bit better while everything else was in the top 5-10. Heck, he had 5 seasons in the top 10 LEAST intercepted QBs by % of throws.
LolI really do like to use this type of compilation when comparing players of different eras. In fact, I use this myself quite often.
However:
One needs to dig a little deeper here. Reason for that is that those rankings are only for the AFL!
In Namath's first five seasons there were this many teams (and starting QBs):
1965: 8
1966: 9
1967: 10
1968: 10
1969: 10
In other words - he (and every other AFL starter) was guaranteed to rank in the top ten!
The top 10/top 5/top 3 ranking is still a useful tool - you just have to be careful when using it prior to 1970.