Top QBs of All-Time

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Tom Brady is on pace to have the best season in almost every category by a QB.

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Other decent QB;s :

John Brodie
Ken Anderson
Ken Stabler
John Hadl
Roman Gabriel
Jack Kemp
Bert Jones
Jim Hart
Steve Bartkowski
Tommy Kramer
Boomer Esiason
Ron Jaworski
Jeff George
Randall Cunningham
Drew Bledsoe
Kurt Warner
Bernie Kosar

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Number of attempts per TD :

1 Dawson, Len 15.65
2 Baugh, Sammy 16.02
3 Jurgensen, Sonny 16.71
4 Blanda, George 16.98
5 Graham, Otto 17.78
6 Manning, Peyton 17.83
7 Griese, Bob 17.86
8 Unitas, Johnny 17.88
9 Young, Steve 17.88
10 Tittle, Y.A. 18.00
11 Bradshaw, Terry 18.40
12 Tarkenton, Fran 18.91
13 Hadl, John 19.21
14 Staubach, Roger 19.33
15 Montana, Joe 19.75
16 Favre, Brett 19.88
17 Marino, Dan 19.90
18 Brady, Tom 20.08
19 Kelly, Jim 20.16
20 Starr, Bart 20.72
21 Namath, Joe 21.75
22 Fouts, Dan 22.06
23 Dickey, Lynn 22.16
24 Anderson, Ken 22.72
25 Moon, Warren 23.45
26 Elway, John 24.17

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Completion %age :
1 Young, Steve 64.3%
2 Manning, Peyton 64.1%
3 Montana, Joe 63.2%
4 Brady, Tom 62.4%
5 Favre, Brett 61.1%
6 Kelly, Jim 60.1%
7 Marino, Dan 59.4%
8 Anderson, Ken 59.3%
9 Fouts, Dan 58.8%
10 Moon, Warren 58.4%
11 Starr, Bart 57.4%
12 Dawson, Len 57.1%
13 Jurgensen, Sonny 57.1%
14 Tarkenton, Fran 57.0%
15 Staubach, Roger 57.0%
16 Elway, John 56.9%
17 Baugh, Sammy 56.5%
18 Griese, Bob 56.2%
19 Dickey, Lynn 55.9%
20 Graham, Otto 55.7%
21 Tittle, Y.A. 55.5%
22 Unitas, Johnny 54.6%
23 Bradshaw, Terry 51.9%
24 Hadl, John 50.4%
25 Namath, Joe 50.1%
26 Blanda, George 47.7%

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Number of attempts per interception :
1 Brady, Tom 39.90
2 Montana, Joe 38.78
3 Young, Steve 38.78
4 Manning, Peyton 35.65
5 Marino, Dan 33.17
6 Elway, John 32.08
7 Favre, Brett 30.36
8 Moon, Warren 29.28
9 Anderson, Ken 27.97
10 Kelly, Jim 27.31
11 Staubach, Roger 27.14
12 Tarkenton, Fran 24.31
13 Fouts, Dan 23.16
14 Starr, Bart 22.82
15 Jurgensen, Sonny 22.55
16 Unitas, Johnny 20.50
17 Dawson, Len 20.44
18 Griese, Bob 19.94
19 Bradshaw, Terry 18.58
20 Hadl, John 17.49
21 Dickey, Lynn 17.46
22 Tittle, Y.A. 17.27
23 Namath, Joe 17.10
24 Graham, Otto 16.65
25 Baugh, Sammy 14.75
26 Blanda, George 14.47

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Yards per attempt :

1 Graham, Otto 8.63
2 Young, Steve 7.98
3 Starr, Bart 7.85
4 Unitas, Johnny 7.76
5 Manning, Peyton 7.71
6 Fouts, Dan 7.68
7 Dawson, Len 7.67
8 Staubach, Roger 7.67
9 Jurgensen, Sonny 7.56
10 Montana, Joe 7.52
11 Dickey, Lynn 7.46
12 Tittle, Y.A. 7.42
13 Kelly, Jim 7.42
14 Namath, Joe 7.35
15 Marino, Dan 7.34
16 Anderson, Ken 7.34
17 Griese, Bob 7.32
18 Baugh, Sammy 7.31
19 Tarkenton, Fran 7.27
20 Moon, Warren 7.23
21 Bradshaw, Terry 7.17
22 Hadl, John 7.15
23 Brady, Tom 7.12
24 Elway, John 7.10
25 Favre, Brett 6.99
26 Blanda, George 6.72

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Yards per completion :

1 Graham, Otto 15.48
2 Namath, Joe 14.67
3 Unitas, Johnny 14.22
4 Hadl, John 14.18
5 Blanda, George 14.09
6 Bradshaw, Terry 13.82
7 Starr, Bart 13.67
8 Staubach, Roger 13.47
9 Dawson, Len 13.44
10 Tittle, Y.A. 13.38
11 Dickey, Lynn 13.35
12 Jurgensen, Sonny 13.24
13 Fouts, Dan 13.05
14 Griese, Bob 13.03
15 Baugh, Sammy 12.93
16 Tarkenton, Fran 12.75
17 Elway, John 12.48
18 Young, Steve 12.42
19 Anderson, Ken 12.37
20 Moon, Warren 12.37
21 Marino, Dan 12.35
22 Kelly, Jim 12.34
23 Manning, Peyton 12.03
24 Montana, Joe 11.90
25 Favre, Brett 11.44
26 Brady, Tom 11.42

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QB Rating :

1 Young, Steve 96.88
2 Manning, Peyton 94.56
3 Montana, Joe 92.17
4 Brady, Tom 89.80
5 Marino, Dan 86.21
6 Favre, Brett 85.22
7 Kelly, Jim 84.30
8 Staubach, Roger 83.52
9 Jurgensen, Sonny 82.79
10 Dawson, Len 82.66
11 Anderson, Ken 81.70
12 Moon, Warren 80.78
13 Tarkenton, Fran 80.49
14 Fouts, Dan 80.31
15 Starr, Bart 80.26
16 Elway, John 79.86
17 Unitas, Johnny 78.37
18 Graham, Otto 78.07
19 Griese, Bob 77.07
20 Tittle, Y.A. 73.55
21 Baugh, Sammy 72.18
22 Dickey, Lynn 71.09
23 Bradshaw, Terry 71.03
24 Hadl, John 67.21
25 Namath, Joe 65.66
26 Blanda, George 60.57

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Favre may want to go for Blanda's longevity record.

Longevity :

1 Blanda, George 27
2 Dawson, Len 19
3 Jurgensen, Sonny 18
4 Tarkenton, Fran 18
5 Unitas, Johnny 18
6 Marino, Dan 17
7 Favre, Brett 17
8 Moon, Warren 17
9 Tittle, Y.A. 17
10 Montana, Joe 16
11 Anderson, Ken 16
12 Starr, Bart 16
13 Elway, John 16
14 Baugh, Sammy 16
15 Hadl, John 16
16 Young, Steve 15
17 Fouts, Dan 15
18 Dickey, Lynn 15
19 Griese, Bob 14
20 Bradshaw, Terry 14
21 Namath, Joe 13
22 Kelly, Jim 11
23 Staubach, Roger 11
24 Manning, Peyton 10
25 Graham, Otto 10
26 Brady, Tom 8

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All opinion and every city that has a qb on this list will say their guy is number one.

[Maxie the Taxi]

I think it's obvious, from all the stats that Motife has published, that the greatest QB who ever lived is Bart Starr.

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I think ...the greatest QB who ever lived is Bart Starr.

If I had to guess off the top of my head where Starr's best numbers came from I would have said Most Attempts per interception. And.. I would have thought that was where Favre was worst.

But Favre is 7th on this list as the least intercepted QB... Starr was 14th.

Favre throws an interception every 30.36 attempts, while Starr threw one every 22.82 attempts. Starr once had a streak of 294 passes without an INT.

Similarly, who would have thought Len Dawson needed the fewest attempts to get a TD pass? With Sammy Baugh, Sonny Jurgensen, George Blanda, Otto Graham leading Peyton Manning?

And Favre trailing further, Bob Griese, Johnny Unitas, Steve Young, Y.A. Tittle, Terry Bradshaw, Fran Tarkenton, John Hadl, Roger Staubach and Joe Montana in TD's per attempt?

And that of the list of TD passes per attempt for this group, John Elway would be DEAD LAST.

[Maxie the Taxi]

But Favre is 7th on this list as the lesst intercepted QB... Starr was 14th.

Kind of stands to reason. Favre played in the West Coast Offense. Most of Starr's throws were downfield.

Are you familiar with Bud Goode's site?

http://mule.he.net/~budsport/index.php

He says the key statistic to predicting wins is yards/throw. Very interesting stuff.

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But Favre is 7th on this list as the lesst intercepted QB... Starr was 14th.

Kind of stands to reason. Favre played in the West Coast Offense. Most of Starr's throws were downfield.

Are you familiar with Bud Goode's site?

http://mule.he.net/~budsport/index.php

He says the key statistic to predicting wins is yards/throw. Very interesting stuff.

But if you look at yards per attempt, of the top Ten most are in the pass downfield pre-West Coast era. The only exceptions are Steve Young, Peyton Manning and Joe Montana.

Tom Brady, John Elway and Brett Favre are at the bottom of the list.

Yards per attempt is a function of the scheme and the completion %age. In historical comparisons, it seems to be somewhat unpredictive. With the exception of Young, Manning and Montana.

[woodbuck27]

That article certainly draws a strong argument for Bart Starr.

I really enjoyed reading it because I saw Starr play and he was Mr. Clutch and the consomate PRO. A very fine man.

Rankings do not speak to my heart though.

All that Favre is. . . does.

Brett Favre is easily the most exciting QB I have ever watched. He is also top five ALL TIME and with better support how many Super Bowls might he have won (Question Mark)

He will own ALL the records and yes even the record for most picks. Yet look at all the throws and to many WRs that he made look decent to very good. Look at his arm , the strength of that when discussing his soon to be pick record.

Johnny U was very special as was Joe Montana. I liked to see Fran Tarkenton play. He could bring you out of your seat similiar to Favre but not the way Favre can.

Favre will go down as simply the best ALL TIME in my book of rankings. If anyone disagrees then that is just fine with me too.