Quarterback Greatness

Mainly football, series don't translate the analogy of a single biggest stage as well.

Boxing would.

 

Says the guy who has been a Browns fan.

 

I enjoyed reading the conversation on Elway and others... good stuff guys.

 

I haven't replied yet, but I can't compare players from different eras. Totally different rules and beasts.

 

Put down the crack pipe.

 

Oh, so losing is your measure of greatness? Yeah, and you think I'm the one on crack.

 

Here comes the gasoline... Terry Bradshaw is one of the worst QBs to ever win a Super Bowl and/or a SB MVP.

 

Bradshaw would never have sniffed the Hall on another team. His team carried him. He did well in a couple Super Bowls and a couple blowouts in the playoffs. He won an MVP in an age when INTs were an afterthought when people looked at the stat sheet. Brett Fave at least eclipsed his INT count by a far amount most of the time. He's the #1 reason many Pittsburgh fans scream only Championships matter. It's the Bradshaw bias.

 

BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT...


#GOAT

 

Bradshaw was by far a better big game QB than Elway.

 

Yup, and all those who lost on the biggest stage are ineligible to be even considered for GOAT. Doesn't mean they weren' good QBs, just not GOAT ELIGIBLE.

 

Greater, not better.

 

I'm confused. Is it greater or better?

 

Bradshaw is a greater personality... I’ll give you that.

 

Is Trent Dilfer greater than Tom Brady?

 

No, Brady won more, but neither 1 hit wonders nor multiple SB losers are eligible for GOAT.

 

Tim, that second quote sounds suspiciously like CBS poster "irregardless" who I regularly schooled in football.

 

While both are used synonymously, the word origins show "greater" to be more attuned to quantitative comparison, and "better" to qualitative comparison. This is why I make a distinction. Which is why you say 2 is greater than 1, but Jif is better than Skippy.

So while Emmitt Smith is the Greatest Running back of all time (accomplished the most as a RB) Barry Sanders was the Best (most awesome in any individual instance)

 

Somehow, I would not be shocked if the thousands of anonymous Twitter football trolls were actually one 14 year old kid in Arminto Wyoming.