![]() ![]() Since the NFL was founded in 1920, the game has evolved so drastically that it’s barely recognizable from its former self. Whereas baseball’s sabermetricians love to compare across eras - the age-old debate about the best home-run hitters is sullied only by racial segregation and steroid use - that’s a bit more difficult to do in football. Quarterbacks in the ’60s and ’70s did not have the TDs or the numbers guys put up now because it was a different game back then.” What gets skewed over the eras are the statistics. Or even go back to what a great athlete Otto Graham was - he’d be successful today. The way that Sonny Jurgensen threw the football, he probably would have been pretty good today. “The great ones would have been successful today. ![]() “I think Bart Starr would have figured out a way to win in any era,” said Ken Anderson, the Pro Bowl Bengals quarterback of the 1970s and 1980s who, under then-quarterback coach Bill Walsh, was one of the first NFL quarterbacks to run the precursor to the West Coast offense. You know the answers: Never, none, zippo.Īnd the 2011 QB crop - Undoubtedly the Greatest of All Time, Proof the Golden Age of Quarterbacks Has Arrived, 32 Mini-Montanas Throwing 54 Touchdowns Over One Glorious Weekend - did this without the two greatest quarterbacks of the past decade, Peyton Manning and Brett Favre. combine for 14 300-yard passing games in one weekend, as Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers & Co. ![]() NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC.Forgive the NFL fan for using the opening weekend’s passing orgy as evidence that today’s quarterbacks leave the Bart Starrs and the Johnny Unitases and the Terry Bradshaws of yesterday in the dust.Īfter all, how many times did an Otto Graham or a Sammy Baugh begin a media-heralded surefire Hall of Fame career with a 422-yard passing game, as Cam Newton did in his debut? How many times did a Fran Tarkenton-led NFL throw for 7,842 net passing yards in a weekend, as a Tom Brady-led NFL did in its 2011 opening weekend? How many times did Roger Staubach, Dan Fouts & Co. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. ![]()
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