Which Decade of QBs Was the Best?

hackjam · Mar 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM

Blast Furnace said: ↑

1980’s

Montana, Marino, Elway, Moon

You can make an argument for any decade but I’d go with these guys. I was going to put Fouts in here but he started his career in ’73 so went with Moon.
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#s 5-8 in Pro Bowls in the 2010s are Ben, Peyton, Rivers, and Luck.

#s 1-4 are Brady, Brees, Wilson, and Rodgers

And that's leaving MVPs Matt Ryan, Pat Mahomes, and Cam Newton on the sideline.

hackjam · Mar 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM

From the tweet though it's 2000s and I don't think it's particularly close.

Blast Furnace · Mar 27, 2026 at 8:29 PM

hackjam said: ↑

#s 5-8 in Pro Bowls in the 2010s are Ben, Peyton, Rivers, and Luck.

#s 1-4 are Brady, Brees, Wilson, and Rodgers

And that's leaving MVPs Matt Ryan, Pat Mahomes, and Cam Newton on the sideline.
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Those 80’s guys are the best IMO. The entire list from each decade is amazing. You can debate this stuff until the end of time and everyone will have their own list of who the best is.

jeh1856 · Mar 27, 2026 at 8:30 PM

mac daddyo said: ↑

800 BC. Jeh could really carry the rock.
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Barefoot and team loincloth

You are welcome for that vision

Blast Furnace · Mar 27, 2026 at 8:40 PM

jeh1856 said: ↑

Barefoot and team loincloth

You are welcome for that vision
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Welp, I was enjoying dinner.

Steelvision · Mar 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM

Hanratty#5 said: ↑

The 70's. Bradshaw, Staubach, Griese, Namath, Tarkenton, Stabler and on and on.

Well yeah Brady won 7 so that kind of skews things in their favor.
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thats not the only thing that skews things in their favor. Just look up all the rule changes protecting Qb’s starting in 1993 with the intentional grounding rule. Its really not the same game anymore. Those guys from the 70’s and 80’s won with none of the special protections in place

Joel Buchsbaum · Mar 28, 2026 at 7:56 AM

Hanratty#5 said: ↑

The 70's. Bradshaw, Staubach, Griese, Namath, Tarkenton, Stabler and on and on.

Well yeah Brady won 7 so that kind of skews things in their favor.
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And Ben, Eil and Peyton won two SB's. Brees won one

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