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Originally Posted by Gadzooks
I know what you're doing but it's true. Rypien is underrated in a similar way to Ken Anderson. Sure he's not as good a player as Anderson was in his prime, and neither was Montana during his KC stint, but he suffered from a lack of charisma in the same way Anderson did.
He had prototypical size, decent stats and was able to beat the vaunted Bills defense in SB 26 AND won the MVP.
KC has Dawson. Anything after that is homerism. Theismann and Rypien are better than any combo from the Chiefs.
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Dawson is woefully underrated. When he retired, he had one of the best career QB ratings in league history, and even today with massive inflation in the terrible circus that the league has become, he's in the top 35. Check this out.
http://www.profootballhof.com/all-ti...r-rating-2014/
Look past the fact that anyone who can throw a watermelon has a high rating these days, and look at the best QBs from the 1960s and 1970s back when quarterbacks were real men. The top QBs through the 1970s were:
Roger Staubach
Sonny Jurgensen
Len Dawson
Ken Anderson
Bart Starr
Fran Tarkenton
Dawson is one of the best QBs in NFL history.
Now look at the list again and find Trent Green ranked #17 of all time, tied with Brett Favre.
The Chiefs have had two great QBs. If you want to count Jurgensen as great too, that's fine. But Jurgensen << Dawson and Theisman <<<<< Green.