Ranking The Browns Qbs
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Here is the list of every QB who has ever started a game for the Cleveland Browns. Rank whom you think are the top 5 and the bottom 5. I list them by number of career starts for the Browns:
Otto Graham 125 (includes AAFC)
Brian Sipe 112
Bernie Kosar 105
Frank Ryan 76
Tim Couch 59
Bill Nelsen 51
Milt Plum 51
Mike Phipps 51
Derek Anderson 34
Vinny Testaverde 31
Paul McDonald 21
Colt McCoy 21
Charlie Frye 19
Brandon Weeden 15
Tommy O'Connell 14
Brady Quinn 12
Kelly Holcomb 12
Trent Dilfer 11
Jim Ninowski 11
Jeff Garcia 10
Gary Danielson 8
Mike Tomczak 8
Doug Pederson 8
Mike Pagel 7
Seneca Wallace 7
George Ratterman 5
Todd Philcox 5
David Mays 4
Jake Delhomme 4
Eric Zeier 4
Luke McCown 4
Mark Rypien 4
Babe Parilli 3
Ken Dorsey 3
Don Strock 2
Ty Detmer 2
Jeff Christenson 2
Terry Luck 1
Thad Lewis 1
Gary Lane 1
Will Cureton 1
Don Gault 1
Spergeon Wynn 1
Bruce Gradkowski 1
Len Dawson 1
Italics: Hall of Fame. Note that includes only the first and last players on this list.
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Here is the list of every QB who has ever started a game for the Cleveland Browns. Rank whom you think are the top 5 and the bottom 5. I list them by number of career starts for the Browns:
Otto Graham 125 (includes AAFC)
Brian Sipe 112
Bernie Kosar 105
Frank Ryan 76
Tim Couch 59
Bill Nelsen 51
Milt Plum 51
Mike Phipps 51
Derek Anderson 34
Vinny Testaverde 31
Paul McDonald 21
Colt McCoy 21
Charlie Frye 19
Brandon Weeden 15
Tommy O'Connell 14
Brady Quinn 12
Kelly Holcomb 12
Trent Dilfer 11
Jim Ninowski 11
Jeff Garcia 10
Gary Danielson 8
Mike Tomczak 8
Doug Pederson 8
Mike Pagel 7
Seneca Wallace 7
George Ratterman 5
Todd Philcox 5
David Mays 4
Jake Delhomme 4
Eric Zeier 4
Luke McCown 4
Mark Rypien 4
Babe Parilli 3
Ken Dorsey 3
Don Strock 2
Ty Detmer 2
Jeff Christenson 2
Terry Luck 1
Thad Lewis 1
Gary Lane 1
Will Cureton 1
Don Gault 1
Bruce Gradkowski 1
Len Dawson 1
Italics: Hall of Fame. Note that includes only the first and last players on this list.
Top Five
Graham
Ryan
Kosar
Sipe
Plum
Bottom Five
Dorsey
Pederson
Philcox
Quinn
McDonald
Favorite (since 1970)
Sipe
Kosar
Nelsen
Couch
Danielson/Holcomb/Strock
Least Favorite (since 1970)
Garcia
Dilfer
Philcox
McDonald
Quinn
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Here are the winning percentages in those games started for each QB. I am not including anyone who had less than 5 starts (I excluded ties when computing win pct.):
Otto Graham .859
Tommy O'Connell .769
Frank Ryan .703
Bill Nelsen .680
Milt Plum .673
Gary Danielson .625
Vinny Testaverde .516
Bernie Kosar .510
Brian Sipe .508
Mike Tomczak .500
Mike Phipps .489
Derek Anderson .470
George Ratterman .400
Todd Philcox .400
Paul McDonald .381
Tim Couch .373
Trent Dilfer .364
Brandon Weeden .333
Kelly Holcom .333
Charlie Frye .315
Jeff Garcia .300
Mike Pagel .285
Colt McCoy .285
Brady Quinn .250
Seneca Wallace .143
Doug Pederson .125
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How did the great Spurgeon Wynn not make this list?
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My top 5:
Otto Graham
Frank Ryan
Bill Nelsen
Brian Sipe
Bernie Kosar
These were all fairly big time postseason winners for the Browns, except Sipe, and Sipe was Sipe.
My bottom 5:
Seneca Wallace
Todd Philcox
Jeff Garcia
Paul McDonald
Mike Phipps
Mike Phipps probably wasn't as bad as we thought at the time, or as some others, but he had the unfortunate situation of: A. Being traded for for Paul Warfield, B. Being a very high draft pick, and C. Following up on the Graham/Ryan/Nelsen winning tradition and being the QB of some not very good Browns teams in the early to mid 70s.
Philcox should have never been allowed off the bench...that was BBs choice, but he wasn't any good and he became BBs sacrificial lamb.
Paul McDonald had the misfortune of following the popular Brian Sipe, and we wanted him to be the lefthanded Brian Sipe, but he wasn't.
Garcia was a square peg in a round hole here.
Wallace was a whiner and a sniper and thought more of himself than anyone else did...and he really sucked pretty badly.
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