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Best QB: Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Steve Young, Dan Marino


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  1. 1. Best QB Amongst

    • Steve Young
      21
    • Drew Brees
      18
    • Dan Marino
      25
    • Brett Favre
      12


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On 7/9/2018 at 8:32 AM, Malik said:

Brees. Both Favre and Marino are career underachievers while Young's peak was too short.

 

His peak was about as long as Roger Staubach's. You have to think he only played full-time for 7 yrs, and those years were PHENOMENAL. I'd probably take that over a guy who just hangs around and is ok for a decade. 

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Marino, by a lot.

Young: Had a phenomenal team and several years backing up Montana learning the system. Definitely 4th out of this group.

Favre: In his best years could do no wrong. Mind you some great teams there, but still a phenomenal pure talent. Needs that support cast though.

Brees: Closest thing to Marino in this era but the rule changes have inflated his numbers and has largerly had more support especially running.

Marino: Largely mediocre receivers elevated by him (yes the Marks brothers were good but elevated), no rushing game. His 84 and 86 seasons comparing the league are still the best pure passing years in history.

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37 minutes ago, x0x said:

Marino, by a lot.

Young: Had a phenomenal team and several years backing up Montana learning the system. Definitely 4th out of this group.

Favre: In his best years could do no wrong. Mind you some great teams there, but still a phenomenal pure talent. Needs that support cast though.

Brees: Closest thing to Marino in this era but the rule changes have inflated his numbers and has largerly had more support especially running.

Marino: Largely mediocre receivers elevated by him (yes the Marks brothers were good but elevated), no rushing game. His 84 and 86 seasons comparing the league are still the best pure passing years in history.

So Marino’s numbers in the 90’s were more a result of his supporting cast?  Had a QB rating over 90 once and only hit the 30-TD barrier once in 10 seasons.

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38 minutes ago, DirtyDez said:

So Marino’s numbers in the 90’s were more a result of his supporting cast?  Had a QB rating over 90 once and only hit the 30-TD barrier once in 10 seasons.

Passing TDs leader in the 90s:

99: Warner-41
98: Young-36
97: Favre-35
96: Favre-39
95: Favre-38
94: Young-35
93: Young-29
92: Young-25
91: Kelly-33
90: Moon-33

All of those teams are pretty stacked offensively. Obviously Kurt Warner's Rams, Favre was phenominal but had talent those years and I put him #2, still doesn't beat Marino at his best with less talent. One other thing is Moon's 1990 Oilers, he didn't have a superstar wide-out but a very rich 2nd tier line-up where two guys made Pro Bowl and two more were pretty solid. You had 3 guys over 70 catches and a 4th with 66 which at the time was fantastic. One other thing, in 98 only Young, Cunningham and Favre eclipsed 30 TDs.

Marino in the 90s finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th out of his prime and was injured in 3 of 10 seasons. He finished 8th in 95 playing 14 games. He was 5 off from 4th. He had multiple TD games 8 of 14 and only 1 game without a TD. His support cast was Fryar, McDuffie and a RB Kirby. Parmalee is the leading rusher with 878 and 3.7avg. In his 2 game absence, the team loses both games with a pretty good backup Bernie Kosar falling to at the time a winless and 1 win team.

This was also post achiles in 93, after which you can tell there's a big difference in his proficiency.

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