Ah the NFL season is here in full swing. So many dreams and hopes for so many fans; so many crushed dreams and hopes for so many fans. It is only week two and expectations are being raised and crushed all at the same time. My team, the Stealers, greatest football organization in the history of the NFL, is doing well, but still it is only week two. I was thinking about all the forgotten people in the history of the NFL. Then the nerd in me took over and I created my list of the most underrated quarterbacks of all time. I’m not a sports expert; these are just my uneducated opinions. Remember this not the list of greatest, but most underrated, you could be horrible and still the most underrated.
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5. Bernie Kosar. Remember when Cleveland was good? You are probably remembering when Bernie Kosar was there. If it weren’t for the heartbreak of the most hated quarterback ever, John Elway, Bernie might have gotten a little more respect. Is he one of the best quarterbacks of all time? No, but he is good enough where people should remember the guy besides Cleveland fans. He was usually in the top 10 in most statistical categories when with Cleveland.
4. Trent Dilfer. Not much to talk about. Then again when have the Ravens ever gotten to the big show since they got rid of him? He wasn’t a great quarterback, but definitely underrated; especially if you consider he has a championship and the Ravens have yet to produce another.
3. Phil Simms. You know for a guy that won a Super Bowl you would think he’d get a little more props. Basically Simms is a very, very good version of Dilfer. For six years he was in the top ten for TD passes. While the Giants at the time were an awesome team they couldn’t have done it without a good quarterback. I think people forget that Simms was a very good quarterback.
2. Steve Young. He has the best QB rating life time. He has been to the big show and won. The two biggest things said against Steve Young: He had Jerry Rice, John Taylor, TO, and a lot of other talent to throw to, and he is no Joe Montana. Yeah it is true that he had a lot of talent around him, but he did well with it. So what he isn’t Joe Montana, nobody is Joe Montana, not even Joe Montana. You are talking about the greatest quarterback of all time. For some reason nobody puts this guy in the same league as the greats of all times. Why? The response is always well Joe Montana was better. Steve Young is/was the best mobile quarterback ever. Michel Vick could only dream of being as good as Steve Young, and at one time people were talking like Michel Vick was the best quarterback ever.
1. Warren Moon. Statistically speaking, this guy rocked. He is on par with Dan Marino, the most overrated quarterback of all time. If Moon had started his career in the NFL there is a good shot some of those records held my Dan might have been held by Moon. But, if you would ever mention Warren Moon in the same breath as Dan Marino people would just laugh at you. I guess that championship Marino won puts him on a different level than Warren Moon. Warren Moon is 4th in all time pass attempts, completions, passing yards, and 5th in all time passing TDs.
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at least you recognise that Elway is the most hated QB.
Young should be 1 on the list. Put him on Montana's team and he'd be Montana. Kosar probably deserves to be higher too, at least higher than Dilfer. Warren Moon was really good, but how many of his numbers were due to the run and shoot? And he and his team not only didn't win a Super Bowl, they also did squat in the playoffs.
Well to Dan at least we agree on some things in life. I think there are two things that come close to the amount of hate Elway gnerates in the NFL, Tom Brady/Pats and Al Davis. Actually Al Davis causes more hate than Elway. There are only two things in the USA worse than Al Davis: Child Pornography and Al Qaeda. I think if people in the NFL were allowed to choose the destruction of malaria or Al Davis it would be a toss up.
Cameron, Montana had a team without Rice and won it all. Also there was a lot more parody when Joe was slinging the ball. But heck I did rank him number 2 on my list. As for Kosar, he is way better than Dilfer, but I think the assumption is that any QB could have lead the Ravens to the Super Bowl and have won. So that's why I give the nod. As for Moon, as QB he is an all time great. There have been plenty of QBs that have collapsed under the no tight end system. In fact Moon was the only QB able to sustain it. It is easier to pass when you have a tight end and a legit run game. It is also easier to win play off games with a legit run game as well. Is Young a better QB than Moon, yes, but I don't think he is more underated. But that's why I like lists there is always room for disagreement.
Well said. Though I still say put Young on Montana's Riceless team and you still win it. Put Montana on Young's defenseless and offensive lineless team and you'd fare poorly.
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