So, now that the Super Bowl is over, lets try this one more time....

smg9779

Who is the best nfl quarterback of all time?

I'll go first.

Joe Montana

restlesssoul

ray finkel

pjtradeking

As I said ALL ALONG.......Jim Plunkett

chinobaeza

quarter back

intodeep

Dan Marino.

I think he did the most with the least.

FYI i'm a jets fan and i hate his guts but respect what he did.

aspoonfulweighsaton

Dan Marino.

The whole Super Bowl thing is overrated when determining this because winning the Super Bowl is a team effort and guys like Montana, Brady, Bradshaw, Aikman, Manning, Young, Elway, etc. all had great teams around them.

Marino hardly had anyone "great" his entire career, or even a running back for that matter.

So speaking solely on quarterback talent it's Marino.

Ledbetterman10

restlesssoul wrote:

ray finkel

Soccer style kicker.....

intodeep wrote:

Dan Marino.

I think he did the most with the least.

FYI i'm a jets fan and i hate his guts but respect what he did.

I've always been a huge Dan Marino fan. He gets a bum rap sometimes because of not winning the Super Bowl and that is warranted....I've seen him come up short in the playoffs on a more than a few occasions. however, those early 90's Dolphins had NOTHING except him and were still somehow successful. If not for Buffalo's dominance in the AFC, they could have been something.

favorite Dan memory: he was injured in 1993 with a torn achilles right when the team looked ready to finally make a move on the Bills. He missed like the last 11 games of the season and it was way up in the air about how he'd perform the next season coming off the injury. first game of the 1994 season? 473 yards and 5 TDs.... out-gunning Bledsoe and the Pats to a 39-35 victory. still the greatest regular season game I've ever watched. It was awesome.

mookie9999

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

Dan Marino.

The whole Super Bowl thing is overrated when determining this because winning the Super Bowl is a team effort and guys like Montana, Brady, Bradshaw, Aikman, Manning, Young, Elway, etc. all had great teams around them.

Marino hardly had anyone "great" his entire career, or even a running back for that matter.

So speaking solely on quarterback talent it's Marino.

Joe Montana for me. As to Marino not having anyone, he had Duper, Clayton, and Tony Nathan on offense and still got smoked in the Super Bowl. But for most of his career he had a fairly weak offense and was quite a player.

Poncier

Still Joe Montana.
Brady would have moved right into the neighborhood had Tyree not made that catch Sunday, but for now Joe lives alone atop the hill.

HailHailVitalogy

Eli Manning

Yes I'm that dick right now

Stone Is God

mookie9999 wrote:

Joe Montana for me. As to Marino not having anyone, he had Duper, Clayton, and Tony Nathan on offense and still got smoked in the Super Bowl. But for most of his career he had a fairly weak offense and was quite a player.

It was a shame for him that he just happened to run into, in my opinion, the best single season team of all time. I love Marino and I'm a huge Dolphins fan but they had no shot in that Super Bowl looking at it in hind sight.

That 1984 49ers team lost 1 game by 3 points and steam rolled teams in the playoffs. Total domination. I hated the 49ers for the longest time for that game.

Ledbetterman10

Stone Is God wrote:

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That 1984 49ers team lost 1 game by 3 points and steam rolled teams in the playoffs. Total domination. I hated the 49ers for the longest time for that game.

yeah I was arguing with people up to the game on Sunday that if the Pats went 19-0, they still wouldn't have been as good as this 49ers team. not only were they dominate all season, they defeated a great Dolphins team in the Super Bowl. In fact I'd put the '84 Dolphins against the '07 Pats any day of the week.

tybird

Johnny Unitas.....called his own plays, had to work a job during the regular season....let Joe try that. Lead his team to the 1958 NFL Championship and eventually a Super Bowl win in 1970!!!!

Bart Starr would be second based on class....and the fact that he has more NFL Championship rings than Joe.

Terry Bradshaw has the same number of Super Bowl wins as Montana

sennin

Dan McGuire!

Poncier

tybird wrote:

Terry Bradshaw has the same number of Super Bowl wins as Montana

Yeah, but Terry's career numbers are quite pedestrian, about 50% completion and almost equal TD to Int ratio.

Stone Is God

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

yeah I was arguing with people up to the game on Sunday that if the Pats went 19-0, they still wouldn't have been as good as this 49ers team. not only were they dominate all season, they defeated a great Dolphins team in the Super Bowl. In fact I'd put the '84 Dolphins against the '07 Pats any day of the week.

They steamrolled my Dolphins. They were a 14-2 team that year that killed teams in the playoffs. They were the Pats offense before the Pats offense was the Pats offense.

Seeing the Dolphins lose that game and then get upset the next year against the Pats in the AFC title game was damaging to me as a 8-9 year old. I still, to this day, believe the Dolphins would have given the Bears a game in that Super Bowl.

Stone Is God

Poncier wrote:

Yeah, but Terry's career numbers are quite pedestrian, about 50% completion and almost equal TD to Int ratio.

He was also supported by the best defense of all time.

Its Evolution Baby

Joe is the best by far. His team was not as good as Marino's Dolphins when they met in the Super Bowl but the Niners still crushed them. Jerry Rice did not join until 1985 and Joe had already won 2 Super Bowl MVPS.

How can anyone say that Marino is better then Joe when they met head to head in the Super Bowl and Joe won the MVP.

Also someone said Johnny U and Bart Starr are comparable based on the championships won. I don't think its fair to judge them because the league was different before the Super Bowl. I would say that these guys are the best Old Era QB's and Joe is the best New Era QB.

Brady having lost the Super Bowl is out of the debate imo.

Flannel Shirt

Eli. Hands down, without question. Greatest ever.

Stone Is God

Its Evolution Baby wrote:

Joe is the best by far. His team was not as good as Marino's Dolphins when they met in the Super Bowl but the Niners still crushed them. Jerry Rice did not join until 1985 and Joe had already won 2 Super Bowl MVPS.

That's a joke right. That 84 49ers team is consider AT THE LEAST a top 5 team of all time. They were 18-1 and had more Hall of Famers then the Dolphins had on their team.

They were 2nd in offense and 1st in defense as far as scoring goes. The point differential was more points than they acutally gave up. 3rd in takeawways.

Outscored playoff opposition 82-26. That's 27-8 per game. Unreal.

Its Evolution Baby

Stone Is God wrote:

That's a joke right. That 84 49ers team is consider AT THE LEAST a top 5 team of all time. They were 18-1 and had more Hall of Famers then the Dolphins had on their team.

They were 2nd in offense and 1st in defense as far as scoring goes. The point differential was more points than they acutally gave up. 3rd in takeawways.

Outscored playoff opposition 82-26. That's 27-8 per game. Unreal.

Yes they were a top 5 team of all time AFTER that game. Before the game all the build up was for Dan Marino and the record setting offense.

I agree it was not a huge upset but at the time a lot of people thought he Dolphins would roll the 49ers.