From: spl2@po.cwru.edu (Sam Lubchansky)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: The most underrated quarterback in my lifetime
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:52:16 GMT
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In article <1bcf49INNflp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> djh10@po.CWRU.Edu (David J. Henning) writes:
>From: djh10@po.CWRU.Edu (David J. Henning)
>Subject: The most underrated quarterback in my lifetime
>Date: 12 Oct 1992 18:11:21 GMT
>
>Upon reading my subject line you should know whom I am talking about.  
>This week he eclipsed the 200 career touchdown mark faster than anyone
>except Marino and Unitas.  If John Elway did this, NFL Live would do a ten
>minute segment on it, and there would be a small shrine erected on the spot from
>which Elway released the ball.  
  This would only be because the executives on NFL Live know true talent  
when they see it, as Elway is the greatest comeback Quarterback of all time.
Elway's 200th touchdown pass will come soon, and no doubt it will be part of 
a 30+ point comeback, an activity which brings him great pleasure as an 
expert in the field of comebacks.  Krieg, on the other hand, has never been 
in the Super Bowl, has only won the division once, and has only made the 
playoffs thrice in his "illustrious" 13 year career.  A true test of 
quarterbacks is in the field of leadership, as a quarterback naturally 
assumes the role of team leader.  Elway, unlike Kreig, took control of a 
crappy team and, in 9 years, led them to the playoffs six times and the 
Super Bowl three times.  While Kreig is sitting around with a career 2-3 
record in the playoffs (in 13 years), Elway has shined with a respectable
7-6 playoff record. While not amazing, it is certainly better than Kreig's.
his as well as his other far-better-than-Elway 
>statistics have been done behind such legendary offensive linemen as Edwin 
>Bailey, Mike Wilson, Ron Mattes, Steve August, Joe Tofflemire, and Grant 
>"pop goes the" Feasel in pass-happy Chuck Knox's system.  These guys let one guy
>sack in him seven times in one game. This year he's tearing it up passing to
>the likes of Bill Jones, J.J. Birden, Tim Barnett, and Walter Davis. I know
>that a few years back, Dave Krieg was the third rated quarterback in NFL
>history and he's still in the top 10.  Last year he lead the NFL in completion
>percentage.  For the last three years the Seahawks have been probably the least
>talented, most injured team in the NFL, but always manage to just miss the
>playoffs.  Why?  Chuck Knox and Dave Krieg.  I think this season's Chief and
>Seahawk teams are perfect illustrations of what this guy means to a team.  The
>Chiefs have been a Super Bowl quarterback away from the Super Bowl, and now
>they have one. It's a marraige made in Heaven.  An article in the September
>28, issue of the Sporting News has endless quotes from Seattle players saying
>how bad off they would have been without Krieg's ability and leadership.  The
>pieces are in place. GO CHIEFS!
>
>					David Henning ...
>-- 
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