QB THREAD - 2x quarterbacky award winner: Lamar Jackson

troy aikman is in the hof. his stats aint really impressive. system qb. ben will be in the hof as well imo. 
 
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Which current Hall of Famer(s) was at no point in his career a top 5 player at his position?

I will list tomorrow but i disagree he want too 5 at any point till this last year as well. And do we go position or player? Because position is a decent argument, player there are a ton of examples
 
this list is a much better list then the one posted a few days ago that had  russell ahead of romo . 
 
Which current Hall of Famer(s) was at no point in his career a top 5 player at his position?

I will list tomorrow but i disagree he want too 5 at any point till this last year as well. And do we go position or player? Because position is a decent argument, player there are a ton of examples

Sorry if I was unclear. My argument was and always has been top 5 at his position.
 
I think Ben Roethlisberger has had times before the 2014 season where he was a borderline top 5 quarterback.....2008,2010,2011
 
That whole "never considered one of best" arguments is so unfair to a guy like Ben, and here's why.

He's played in the same conference as Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, two of the best to ever play the game. Then you have Rodgers and Brees, two other guys who have been highly consistent over the years and who are also future HoFers.

That's four guys who have generational talent and who were considered to be the best in the league over a good 4-5 year period. Everybody after that is an afterthought, or a "second tier" QB.

If the part of the criteria for being in the Hall was to once be considered the best at your position, then we'd have a lot of one or two season wonders trying to get in.

I would buy this rebuttal if Ben was constantly ranked right after those guys.....but up until recently he hasnt been. Some of the time, he hasnt even been close. He has had more seasons where he wasnt even a top 10 quarterback than seasons where he was "close to top, just behind future HOFers.

Quarterbacks like Donovan McNabb, Kurt Warner, Phillip Rivers, brett Favre, Matt Ryan and TonyRomo werell prett consistently better than Ben. Plus there are one or two off seasons where players like Matt Cassel, Matt Schaub, Eli Manning, Matt Stafford, Michael Vick, and many others had better seasons than Ben.

For most of his career, he would be considered somewhere between the 9th and 18th best QBs. To me, that is not Hall of Fame in spite of the rings.

Heres the thing. I am not arguing that if he continues on this rise, and combining that with his team success, that he wont be in the Hall. I just never subscribed to the theory that he would be because of the rings. He needs to maintain this leve of play for a while. Because if he doesnt and goes right back to being a borderline top 10 guy, I would argue that he has had far too many mediocre years to be a Hall lock.
 
I think Ben Roethlisberger has had times before the 2014 season where he was a borderline top 5 quarterback.....2008,2010,2011

Well, you would be wrong.

2008? Nope. 21st in completion percentage. 14th in yards. 15th in touchdowns. 24th in paser rating. Borderline top 5 in 2008 is an absolutely laugahble claim sir. Just absurd.

2010? Nope. 15th in completion percentage. 18th in yards. 19th in touchdowns. 5th in passer rating. Much closer than your first example but still not close to top 5.

2011? Ehhhh still no. 6th in completion percentage. 9th in yards. 11th in touchdowns. 10th in passer rating. Sorry, not a borderline top 5 season.

I fail to see how any of your examples show that Ben had anywhere close to top 5 seasons. I just dont.
 
I think Ben Roethlisberger has had times before the 2014 season where he was a borderline top 5 quarterback.....2008,2010,2011

Well, you would be wrong.

2008? Nope. 21st in completion percentage. 14th in yards. 15th in touchdowns. 24th in paser rating. Borderline top 5 in 2008 is an absolutely laugahble claim sir. Just absurd.

2010? Nope. 15th in completion percentage. 18th in yards. 19th in touchdowns. 5th in passer rating. Much closer than your first example but still not close to top 5.

2011? Ehhhh still no. 6th in completion percentage. 9th in yards. 11th in touchdowns. 10th in passer rating. Sorry, not a borderline top 5 season.

I fail to see how any of your examples show that Ben had anywhere close to top 5 seasons. I just dont.



I meant 2007....Made the Pro Bowl... 10-5 record, 2nd in quarterback rating, 4th in QBR, 3rd in passing touchdowns, 3rd in yards per attempt....Top quarterbacks that season 1. Brady 2. Favre 3. Manning 4. Roesthlisberger 5. Romo

2010.... Missing 4 games due to suspension, 9-3 record reached the Super Bowl, 5th in quarterback rating, 6th in yards per game, 3rd in yards per attempt, tied for 2nd in lowest interception pct....Top quarterbacks that season 1. Brady 2. Manning 3. Brees 3. Rodgers( mainly off of his postseason) Vick, Roesthlisberger and Rivers were similar levels depending on what the preference

2011...Made the Pro Bowl...11-4 record, 10th in quarterback rating, 8th in yards per game, 8th in QBR

Top quarterbacks that season....1. Rodgers 2. Brady 3. Brees 4. Romo after that Rivers, Eli, Roesthlisberger, Ryan were all about at the same level
 
Dude, are you really gonna tell me Ben hasn't been a good QB except in the last two seasons?

Cause that's what I'm getting from you, and as a Steelers fan I can tell you haven't watched many games, or else you wouldn't dare put guys like Ryan, Schaub, VICK (:lol), and Cassel in this convo. Just because they had (in your mind) better seasons than Roethlisberger at some point.

Furthermore, I don't care who you are. When your o-line sucks **** the majority of your career, you're stats are gonna take a hit. It's no coincidence that people started paying attention to him once his supporting cast got better.
 
Dude, are you really gonna tell me Ben hasn't been a good QB except in the last two seasons?

Cause that's what I'm getting from you, and as a Steelers fan I can tell you haven't watched many games, or else you wouldn't dare put guys like Ryan, Schaub, VICK (:lol), and Cassel in this convo. Just because they had (in your mind) better seasons than Roethlisberger at some point.

Furthermore, I don't care who you are. When your o-line sucks **** the majority of your career, you're stats are gonna take a hit. It's no coincidence that people started paying attention to him once his supporting cast got better.

If after all this, you think that I am saying Ben hasnt been good up until the last couple seasons, I Am going to stop replying to you. Never once did I say that. Your love for Ben is clouding your ability to comprehend what you are reading.
 
And your clear dislike (or previous dislike, either way it's pretty obvious) is clouding your common sense. Or you're just uninformed.

So we're even.
 
Where you been man?
Here and there.  Got a lot of stuff going on so haven't been on NT hardly at all. 

Football gonna draw me back in more though. 
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4. Andrew Luck, Colts: Yes, he still throws too many interceptions—his 16 in 2014 pushed his three-season total to 43. But this is a guy who turned around a 2–14 team in his rookie season as completely as any rookie quarterback can, and he had a full Bruce Arians playbook to digest. The Colts have never reduced the game plan for Luck, and he's succeeded despite a rebuilt roster, a shaky offensive line, and almost no run game last year. As a thrower on the run, only Rodgers is better on a consistent basis, and Luck's play-action numbers are pretty insane. Per Pro Football Focus, he threw 13 touchdown passes and just one pick when running play-action in '14. That's especially impressive when no defense takes your run game seriously.
You want efficiency on deep passes? He threw 13 touchdown passes of 20 yards or more last season, behind only Tony Romo and tied with Rodgers. Poise under pressure? No quarterback threw more touchdowns than Luck's 13 under duress. There are a few rough spots in Luck's game to be dealt with, but when you add Frank Gore and Andre Johnson to a roster that desperately needed a sustaining back and a reliable big receiver, those little things may not matter. Luck is the NFL's next quarterback paragon.

This guy must be a misinformed hater
 
Bolds the first sentence of a paragraph while ignoring the rest.

LOL.

It's like they literally TRY, to be stupid.

He bolded that sentence, 16 INT's........in 16 games.

ONE, per game. "Too many". :lol


*ignores taking 2-14 team to playoffs as rookie, full Arians playbook, no run game, no Oline, brilliant on the run, playaction magic even with zero run game, efficient deep, poise under pressure, going to be NFL's next elite QB*

1 INT per game tho.


:rollin :rollin :{
 
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