Ranking every NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
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Top 20
1.Montana
2. Peyton Manning
3. Unitas
4. Favre
5. Marino
6. Elway
7. Graham
8. Baugh
9. Bradshaw
10. Staubach
11. Young
12. Starr
13. Aikman
14. Stabler
15. Tarkenton
16. Warner
17. Tittle
18. Namath
19. Moon
20. Fouts
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Warren Moon below Namath? Stabauch below Bradshaw? LOL OK
That list needs some major reorganization because it's wrong on so many levels
what @perkdog said in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Tarkenton should be much higher.
No Tom Brady?
Bradshaw doesn't belong here.
Brady isn't in the HOF.
I think the list is pretty accurate, although I would put Fouts higher.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Are you being serious? I gave you an lol.
If you are serious I'm going to be disappointed I can't give you another lol
Is CBS Sports not reputable? Its all opinions anyway, and everyone has one.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Ok Brady not yet in HOF.
The list still sucks.
Cbs might be overall but not every writer is reputable. I mean yes I understand we all have opinions like Montana over Brady or vice versa is a reasonable debate but Bradshaw over Stabauch is not, no matter how you look at it
Disagree. What did Staubach accomplish that Bradshaw did not? Bradshaw called his own plays and Held many post-season records when he retired. Both are first ballot HOF'ers.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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fruity pebbles are going to shoot out of dallas' nose when he opens up this thread
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
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Dallas likes to be tagged in a thread if his opinions are being discussed. It leads to untold adventures...
I'm being serious when I ask...who is the QB that @dallasactuary considers the GOAT? I can't remember. Was it Ken Anderson? The coffee achiever?
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PS this commercial has a cameo by Kurt Vonnegut. Have I told my so funny, probably not, Vonnegut story here? I'm sure I have. Anyway...
He is a huge Ken Anderson guy
Fouts seems too low for me at 20. Maybe because he never won a ring? I'm sure that is a factor taken into consideration. But then again Marino is 5 and I won't argue with him being there.
Underrated
Key stats: Super Bowl IV MVP; 3-time AFL champion; 7-time AFL leader in completion percentage; 4-time AFL leader in TD passes
Why he's No. 22: Dawson won AFL titles with the Texans and Chiefs before leading Kansas City to the AFL's second Super Bowl win over the NFL's champion. While he wasn't as prolific following the AFL-NFL merge, Dawson was named to his seventh Pro Bowl at age 36 in 1971. In the '71 playoffs, he threw for 246 yards and a touchdown against Miami's fabled "No Name" defense in the longest game in NFL history.
Fouts is surely ahead of Namath
I really have nothing to add since perk nailed it in the first response. I also feel no need to address Ken Anderson or any of the other glaring errors of omission or commission in that absurd list; to do so would dignify the list as worthy of a response when clearly it is not.
I will just say, for the 100th or so time, that if you ever say of a football player, QB or otherwise, that "he" won a Super Bowl, then you are the problem, and the reason why laughable lists like this one get created.
Nah, actually anyone who writes 'Lynn Swann sucks' is the problem.
There's no reason to mention Ken Anderson if you actually read the article. This list is HOFers only
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Nah, the people who don't understand why I say "Lynn Swann sucks" are the problem; and they're the same people who say "he" won a Super Bowl.
Anyone reading that list who nods their head and says "yup, Tarkenton is ranked a couple spots below Aikman, and further below Bradshaw, that sounds about right" does not (forgive me perk) understand how football works. The level of ignorance required to reach that conclusion is absolutely jaw-dropping and one wonders how the people who reach that conclusion manage to feed themselves. Sure, they can get jobs at CBS, but how do they operate a knife and fork?
Do you put Brady at 1 once in the HOF?
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I do.
Who else is up soon for the hall? Roethlisberger...many will have him up there. Who does he replace? Philip Rivers will be in the hall. Does he make anyone's top 20?
And what about Aaron Rodgers, where does he belong on the list? Speaking of which, I found the perfect bust for him when he gets inducted.
If it was me I would replace Warner with Roethlisberger. Brady would go to #1. And Rivers would not be on that list as it is now.
I would put Aaron in the top 10.
They got #1 right.
Top 20
20 Namath
If everyone on this forum had their own top 20, every single list would be different.
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No.
Just for fun I went to pro-football-reference.com and looked at the list for all-time approximate value. The list includes the top 250 players plus ties. Approximate value is grossly equivalent to WAR for baseball in that it attempts to be a "one size fits all" number which compares players across positions and eras. Regardless of its worth, it is a yardstick to compare this list. Six of the top ten are quarterbacks, with Brady far above Brees for first place (316 to 277) and that the non-quarterbacks in the top ten are Jerry Rice, Reggie White, Bruce Smith, and Ray Lewis.
So I'm going to repeat this list with the rankings on the AV Career list:
1.Montana 34
2. Peyton Manning 3
3. Unitas 79
4. Favre 4
5. Marino 12
6. Elway 15
7. Graham <250
8. Baugh <250
9. Bradshaw 94
10. Staubach 167
11. Young 28
12. Starr <250
13. Aikman 217
14. Stabler 234
15. Tarkenton 6
16. Warner <250
17. Tittle <250
18. Namath <250
19. Moon 36
20. Fouts 36
I dont think Aikman or Namath belong on any top 20 QB lists.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
So strictly going with AV list Len Dawson is ahead of
Bradshaw
Kelly
Staubach
Aikman
Stabler
Starr
Namath
Tittle
Baugh
Graham
and staked all of them to a 5 year head start as nobody saw how great Len would
be as a QB. Short career but led his league in completion percentage 8 times,
TD passes 4 times, passer rating 6 times.
Here's what the Approximate value says, in it's order;
1 Tom Brady
2 Drew Brees
3 Peyton Manning
4 Brett Favre
5 Fran Tarkenton
6 Philip Rivers
6 Aaron Rodgers
7 Dan Marino
8 Ben Roethlisberger
9 John Elway
10 Matt Ryan
11 Eli Manning
12 Steve Young
13 Joe Montana
14 Dan Fouts
14 Warren Moon
15 Ken Anderson
16 Russell Wilson
17 Mathew Stafford
18 John Hadl
Sorry if I missed someone, doing this in a hurry.
Shorter career guys are screwed, but still a few surprises.
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You edited your post again. Lol I saw the original. You slandered the real GOAT. 😂😂
Football-reference doesn't calculate AV prior to 1960, so it can't be used to compare QBs who played some or all of their careers before then.
Ah, well that would make sense, so really only Namath and Warner aren't listed.
Namath and Warner had some HUGE years, but were hurt and had too short of careers to have a high career AV.
Staubach suffers too.
What is the obsession with everything in sports and so much else in life whereby there is a superficial need for rankings? I am not comparing Otto Graham to Joe Montana... period. Both are great and played at different times making a comparison laughable. There are great QBs which warrant recognition but there is simply no upside in trying to rank them. This makes about as much sense as ranking Citizen Kane to The Godfather. Not doing that either even though others undertake the effort.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
It's fun for some of us, some just like to be fools. If you don't like it that's OK too.
The arguments can never really be proven one way or the other, some of us even know that.
blah! I just realized that not all hall of fame QB's were mentioned in the OP post so my list was just ranking the ones that were already mentioned. My revised list including those that I did not include...
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