Who are your top 5 QB's?

[3 to be 4]

my list is
1. Montana
2. Unitas
3. Elway
4. Staubach
5. Bradshaw
6. Graham
7. Starr
8. Favre
9. Brady
10. Manning

in 5 years i could see putting Brady and Manning up in the top 5. As it is, they are hall of famers already.

 

[Pats Fanatic]

my list is
1. Montana
2. Unitas
3. Elway
4. Staubach
5. Bradshaw
6. Graham
7. Starr
8. Favre
9. Brady
10. Manning

in 5 years i could see putting Brady and Manning up in the top 5. As it is, they are hall of famers already.

Great list I agree with this.

 

[Fanfrom1960]

Great points all. Yeah, I think they added an official in '78 too to police the five yard rule.

Staubach did pretty well anyway at 83.4 for a QB who spent virtually his entire career pre 78. The modern-era guy who suffers on the Pass rating is Bradshaw who played most of his career pre 78 and whose Pass rating of 70.9 belies his impact. Interestingly enough, Montana began his pro career in 79.

(BTW, Otto Graham's Pass rating was 78.17; Y.A. Tittle's was 73.65; Sid Luckman's was 75.01.)

I guess the bottom line is that no one measure is perfect, which is why matching results on multiple "lists" is kind of interesting.

And don't forget that Staubach put in his four years in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy and before joining the Cowboys.

 

[Sean Pa Patriot]

My Top 10 Qb 's of all time


1 Montana
2 Unitas
3 Brady
4 Starr
5 Farve
6 Manning
7 Elway
8 Staubach
9 Fouts
10 Marino

5 Most overated Qb's of all time
1 Jim Kelly
2 Steve Young
3 Terry Bradshaw
4 Joe Namath
5 Troy Aikman

I would take Staubach over Aikman any day..

 

[Fanfrom1960]

My Top 10 Qb 's of all time


1 Montana
2 Unitas
3 Brady
4 Starr
5 Farve
6 Manning
7 Elway
8 Staubach
9 Fouts
10 Marino

5 Most overated Qb's of all time
1 Jim Kelly
2 Steve Young
3 Terry Bradshaw
4 Joe Namath
5 Troy Aikman

I would take Staubach over Aikman any day..

Based on (just the overrated ones)? Did you watch them play?

 

[PatsWorldChamps]

brady
montana
young
favre
manning
marino
fouts
unitas

most overrated of all time:
elway - without terrell davis, he is marino, but a lot worse.. had an average PR for his career, why the hype?
vick
namath
bradshaw

 

[PatsFanSince74]

There has been some very good discussion out here on this topic that has lead me to rethink this. Here's how I see it now:

Former QB's
Montana
Staubach
Marino
Unitas
Bradshaw (yeah, I know, but four rings is four rings is four rings)


Active QB's
Brady
Manning
Favre
Nobody else

 

[NE_PATS_FAN_54]

My Top 10 Qb 's of all time


1 Montana
2 Unitas
3 Brady
4 Starr
5 Farve
6 Manning
7 Elway
8 Staubach
9 Fouts
10 Marino

5 Most overated Qb's of all time
1 Jim Kelly
2 Steve Young
3 Terry Bradshaw
4 Joe Namath
5 Troy Aikman

I would take Staubach over Aikman any day..

how is steve young overrated?? the man won two mvp's!!

 

[NoCal Patriot]

1. Joe Montana
2. John Unitas
3. Dan Fouts
4. Tom Brady
5. John Elway

 

[PatsFanSince74]

My Top 10 Qb 's of all time

5 Most overated Qb's of all time
1 Jim Kelly
2 Steve Young
3 Terry Bradshaw
4 Joe Namath
5 Troy Aikman

I would take Staubach over Aikman any day..

come on. how can you say that steve young was overrated? and bradshaw, how is anyone with four rings overrated? this sounds like some colts board where they say that tb is overrated because he was "lucky" to win three sb's by three points.

 

[frankiesfly]

One reasonably objective way to judge top Qbs is by playoff victory totals as starters (or coming off the bench to lead a team to victory), with Sbs victories as a tie breaker. That shows that a Qb was the head of a winning organization over a long period of time. It does not penalize a QB for not "winning the big one", but rewards him for doing so. Since the merger in 1970, here are the QB playoff victory standings:

1. Montana 16 (4 Sb wins)
2. Bradshaw 14 (4 Sbs wins)
3. Elway 14 (2 Sb wins, 3 Sb losses)
4. Brady 12 (3 Sb wins)
5. Staubach 12 (2 Sb wins, 2 Sb losses)
6. Aikman 11 (3 Sb wins)
7. Favre 11 (1 Sb win, 1 Sb loss)
8. Kelly 9 (4 Sb losses)
9. Plunkett 8 (2 Sb wins)
10. Young 8 (1 Sb win)
11. Marino 8 (1 Sb loss)
12. (tie) Stabler 7 (1 Sb win)
Manning 7 (1 Sb win)
13. McNabb 7 (1 Sb loss)
14. Theisman 6 (1 Sb win, 1 Sb loss)
15. Simms 6 (1 Sb win)
16. Tarkenton 6 (3 Sb losses)
17. Danny White 6
18. Warner 5 (1 Sb win, 1 Sb loss)
19. Roethlisberger 5 (1 Sb win)
20. McNair 5 (1 Sb loss)

I see you did your home work. A+

 

[frankiesfly]

Tom Brady=because you know why
Joe Montana=even though i hated him
Dan Marino=Work horse
John Elway=his will to win
Warren Moon=awesome Qb, master of the deep ball.