Originally Posted by
deltgen
I must strongly disagree with this. I've no idea of your age, jtoler, and so I'm wondering if you're of an age to have seen the NFL in those days. It was an entirely different game. I'm not one of the guys that says it was better, just different. The good QBs would go about 11/20, 190 yards and a couple TDs and we'd be talking about what a great game they had. Every team in the league looked to establish a run game first. The successful teams could throw a few vertical strikes a game, and Bradshaw was as good as anyone--the dude had a cannon arm. There are several QBs who were contemporaries of Bradshaw who one would also think were quite pedestrian if only the raw stats were looked at. Staubach was about the same as Bradshaw when it comes to TD/INT ratio. Dan Fouts had a QB rating of 80 which would make him a backup nowadays. But Bradshaw, Staubach, Fouts, Stabler, Griese, Tarkenton, et. al--those guys were absolutely fantastic QBs.