DOLPHINS: All time QB ranking

[ldouglas]

On 2/15/10, Mark S. Clark <clark.m.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Kristoffer Shields
> <kms223 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> To me, the perfect example is Elway.  He went through his entire career
>> being looked at one way because he didn't have any rings..... all of a
>> sudden they get a RB who was one of the all-time greats (until he later
>> got
>> injured) and voila, Elway wins a couple Super Bowls.... and then analysts
>> start calling him one of the best of all time?  But if they had never
>> stumbled upon TD, he wouldn't have been?  It's silly.
>
>
> I think an argument can be made that TD was largely responsible for the
> first SB win, but not as much the second one.
> If I recall, Elway was injured shortly before the first one and TD pretty
> much carried the team, but Elway had a much better SB the next year.


iirc elway was hurt and missed games in 1998 and Bubby Brister got a
bunch of starts. they also started 12-0 or 13-0 before they lost to
the Giants (with Amani Toomer!)