Most Overrated QB Ever

The Gipper

What can the criteria be for someone to be considered "Overrated"? Failure to win a Super Bowl? Dan Marino never won. Failure to make a Super Bowl? Fouts/Rivers/Moon never got there. What about overall winning record? See the Namath example above.

What about a guy that actually HAS won a Super Bowl? See Joe Flacco.

One area I don't consider a person to be "overrated" is if they are a bust. You don't see Jamarcus Russell/Ryan Leaf and others on any "overrated" list. They were overrated when coming out of college, but not when their careers are evaluated.

Of everyone on the above list, I might put Flacco there.

The Gipper

@browns149 said:

2 great years and 2 good years does not make someone a HOFer. IMO

But, being one of the most iconic figures the game has ever seen, and winning what many/most think is the most significant game in History does.

Browns149

@the-gipper said:

But, being one of the most iconic figures the game has ever seen, and winning what many/most think is the most significant game in History does.

Being iconic doesn’t make you a great player. And I thought the NYG winning the NFL title in OT was the most significant game of all time

SdBacker80

I wanted to say Phil Simms or Joe Flacco but I can’t say a Super Champ and MVP (both were) are overrated.

Maybe Carson Palmer although he put a decent QB Rating career 87.9. He was a #1 overall pick. Maybe didn’t live up to the extreme expectations he had.

Im going with Culpepper. He Had one elite year throwing to Moss. 11th overall pick so he came in with lofty expectations. He ultimately bounced around the league and played sparingly last half of his career.

The Gipper

@browns149 said:

Being iconic doesn’t make you a great player. And I thought the NYG winning the NFL title in OT was the most significant game of all time

I would say that SBIII is considered the most significant game of all time.

And the game you are thinking about is, I think, the 1958 Colts win over the Giants in OT, dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played". That was a great game....considered the greatest of all time (at the time)....because it was the first ever NFL game to go into Overtime.

Marvin the Martian

Ryan Leaf and Jonny Manziel

Highly rated and highly drafted busts

The Gipper

@marvin-the-martian said:

Ryan Leaf and Jonny Manziel

Highly rated and highly drafted busts

Well...again I am really looking for guys who you think had overrated NFL careers....not really for guys who were busts coming out of college. Practically every draft since they have been doing drafts has a couple of those.

D Bone

The punky QB known as McMahon.

Browns149

@d-bone said:

The punky QB known as McMahon.

He’s right up there with Namath. More flash and ego then talent

DieHardBrownsFan

Broadway Joe rocked. And he does great Medicare Advantage commercials.

Marvin the Martian

here's a Brown: Mike Phipps

ATOM

@marvin-the-martian said:

here's a Brown: Mike Phipps

maybe that should go down as worst trade ever

The Gipper

@marvin-the-martian said:

here's a Brown: Mike Phipps

Again, more in the bust category than the overrated category.

SdBacker80

Not on this list but

Kordell Stewart

The Gipper

@sdbacker80 said:

Not of this list but

Kordell Stewart

He was on the list of one of the sites I checked....but my thinking was: No one really thought the guy was all that good anyway.....did they? Thus I did not include him above.

LBC mike

jay cutler

The Gipper

@lbc-mike said:

jay cutler

Well...he was another of those that I didn't think many people thought much of anyway. I mean, whomever waxes poetic or sings the praises about Jay Cutler?

ballpeen

To me, Randall Cunningham.

The Gipper

@ballpeen said:

To me, Randall Cunningham.

Curious: Why so?

Bob806

@atom said:

maybe that should go down as worst trade ever

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