Originally Posted by
BigJay
I realize this is SBR and most debates end up in the gutter with people just bitching at each other. Just because I have a different opinion than yours doesn’t mean I don’t know the game or am a “jerkoff.” But I guess to go there is your only defense mechanism.
I’ll just state my position using these crazy things I discovered called facts to try and back up a few opinions.
Here’s three QBs you compare Cousins to:
Marino’s record was 155-103, a .601 win %. He led the league in passing five times and played in 18 playoff games and a Super Bowl. Marino had 33 fourth-quarter comebacks. League MVP 1984. First-ballot Hall of Famer.
Rivers has a 123-96 overall record (.562) and has passed for over 4K 10 times. Rivers has 26 fourth-quarter comebacks. Still, never getting to a Super Bowl (and only one AFC championship game appearance) will likely give those who are anti-Rivers an argument against his Hall chances. He could be one of those that takes multiple years of eligibility to get in.
Ryan has a 106-78 (.578) career record and has passed for 4K 8 times. He has been to a Super Bowl and should have won it. Ryan has 27 fourth-quarter comebacks. He won the MVP in 2016. Agreed, he likely makes the Hall of Fame.
Cousins (34-38 career record) took over a loaded Vikings squad and transformed a 13-win team from a season before into his kind of ball club, an 8-win team.
I would argue that Cousins is not on a Hall of Fame path. That could change, but I doubt it.
You lean on his stats but when they are ultimately adjusted for the era he played in, the most QB friendly of all time, I feel many more of his contemporaries will rate better and Cousins will fall short.