Greatest quarterback 's question

[eflfanatic]

Post 80's

Joe Montana
Troy Aikman
Tom Brady
Peyton Manning
John Elway

Pre 80's

Johnny Unitas
Bart Starr
Terry Bradshaw
Joe Namath
Roger Staubach

[the french guy]

If you will allow me to digress for a moment, the rules have changed to protect the QB of today because the speed and the violence of the game has increased.

In football, do you have some statistics about the evolution of total weight of a squad, for example ?

In rugby, I saw same stats like that that my brother gave (my brother is a rugby coach, for the children teams) to me. From the late 70's to the late 90's the weight and size of the athletes dramaticaly increased. I'll search for the correct stats. It explains why most of rugbymen today wear soft body armors et soft helmets on linemen positions, for example. More speed, more violence...because of the physical evolution of the professional athletes. They are as bad as yesterday, just bigger...so it hurts more

[artlax]

because each persons interpretation of better is relative and often heavily influenced by their age and level of knowledge of the game. Also, as you know the eras are very different - number of teams, number of games, size and speed, advances in physical training and commitment to such, technology, etc...

In the NFL some guys (like Marino) put up great stats BUT never led their team to SB wins while others did not put up the stats and got the SB wins (Terry Bradshaw). And look at Tarkenton and Jim Kelly - all those SB appearances and zero wins.

One interesting stat - on Monday night Tom Brady became the fastest QB to get to 100 wins in the SB era.