The other night I phoned my father for no particular reason and in the midst of the conversation Ron D commented on how he has been watching football for the better part of 50 years and he can’t believe how many terrible Quarterbacks there are in the league right now, and we only talked about starters. We decided to go team by team and I let Big Ron give his assessment and slot them into a category.
Now, this survey was by no means scientific and there is no factual data to back this stuff up, just 50 years of watching football and coaching it on various levels. Our categories, like this survey are not very scientific either, they are; Elite, Above Average, Average, Below Average/Terrible and then just plane Stinks.
ELITE- Clearly the class of the league, guys you would take on your team any day any time!!
Tom Brady, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, and Donovan McNabb.
I know some of these guys may not be having their best seasons, but the fact remains they are the Hall of Famers of their generation
ABOVE AVERAGE- The second tier of QB’s, guys who can pop uo into the elite category every year or two. These guys make and win playoff games and have a chance to be a Hall of famer
Eli Manning, Kurt Warner, Jake Delhomme, Jeff Garcia, Phillip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger.
AVERAGE- Guys who can look good one week and look terrible the next, some have some potential but at the end of the day they are .500 QB’s (you know, like Michael Vick).
Kerry Collins, Tony Romo, Drew Brees, Matt Hasselbeck, Jay Cutler, and Carson Palmer
TERRIBLE- Just look the word up in the dictionary.
Jason Campell, Vince Young, Marc Bulger, Kyle Orton, and Chad Pennington
STINKS- Guys who should probably be playing arena league football.
JT O’Sullivan, Anyone QB’ing the Chiefs, Matt Schaub, Derek Anderson, Dan Orlovsky, Tavaris Jackson, Matt Cassell, Gus Ferrote, Seneca Wallace and David Gerrard.
Now there are a bunch of 1st and 2nd year QB’s who the verdict is yet to be out on, but we will put them in the category we think they will eventually fall in to.
ABOVE AVERAGE- Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers
AVERAGE- Jamarcus Russell and Trent Edwards
STINKS- Joe Flacco
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This post is especially enjoyable if you read it in Big Ron's voice and imagine all his facial expressions and gesticulations as he would say the lines.
Where's the love for Joe Flacco, pride of the Blue Hens?
i would elevate pennington, bulger and campbell to at least the average tier. Pennington has won multiple playoff games, bulger can play and campbell has perservered into a winning quarterback in a myriad of systems.
I could live with your arguments Joshua, but these are Ron DeBlasio locks. He thinks Penningtons arm is bound to fall off Dave Dravecky style and he thinks Jason Campbell may be the worst QB in the history of football.
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