He and his buddies laugh at you. What I wouldn't have given to have Marino for 12 years. Joe Namath 2.0. _
How old do you have to be to realize Sanchez is awful? You have not reached that age yet. He's Joey Harrington with a better team and I say that with all respect to Joey Ballgame You can't really "bigtime" or "son" someone when you spread the gospel of Mark Sanchez. What's funny is he's actually a considerably worse player than people on these boards even realize. He is Joey Harrington.
This is a discussion about Marino versus Rogers, but nice deflection child. Seriously, again, not trying to be a dick but how old ARE you? Where did you go to college? What conference? SEC? PAC 10 (I mean PAC 12)? ACC? Big East? Who did you see live in college? Who did you see after you graduated? _
I barely got to see Marino play as I'm only 26 so I'm not one of these Phins fans who touts him as the best ever but it is ridiculous to act like the guy was an idiot and then use that as the basis to knock the guy. "Idiots" in the context of football smarts don't smash every important football passing record.
Nice edit. I'm not trying to big time or "son" anyone. I have 4 of my own children, I don't need a snot nosed Dbag to add to my brood. My kids are quite great and kind of happy not to have a Dbag amongst them. I'm just trying to judge who I'm talking to. You sound kind of young and immature. Discussing Marino seems to be outside you area of understanding, but like most children who look to incongruous stats, you really are sounding kind of foolish. Good luck in life. _
I went to Rutgers. I'm 33. I saw Marino play. Good arm, but a mediocre decision-maker like Favre. Everyone romanticizes the earlier eras. Joe Montana is the best example. Would Joe Montana have fared any better against the Seahawks? What is about his clutch ability that would have scared the Seahawks? Would they have like watched his game tape and been like "wow those are clutch throws we can't stop, look at his average arm and lack of mobility, man we are screwed." Why didn't his clutch ability work against a slightly worse 1986 Giants D? You would think he could have like just turned a knob or something and brought up his clutch ability and the Giants would have folded. Weird. Montana and Brady according to the public can just turn the "clutch" knob and defeat anyone.
You don't understand, he was FAR from an idiot. He blew off the wonderlic and got a terrible score. He had one of the highest football IQs of any QB of his era. The guy was a brilliant football player. Dbags pointing to a wonderlic score from 25 years ago are just showing their ignorance. Or immaturity. Or childishness. Or all 3. Given that they never saw him. It's quite comical. _
Agreed. Rodgers is so much better at every aspect of football, at every aspect of life, and he's a lot smarter too. Show me something to convince me that Marino is better other than your romanticization of Marino's era. Marino was worse in the regular season and way worse in the playoffs. Is he better looking? Maybe you can hang your hat on that.
Have you ever watched CBS's pregames? You're really going to tell me Marino is far from an idiot? The guy is barely literate. Him and Terry Bradshaw were the greatest ever, you're right, you win. Smart guys who elected to complete low percentages because what's the fun in completing passes.
GTFO seriously, Marino retired when you were 19 and you were 14 by the time he started down the backside of his career. Seriously, get a clue before you start spewing nonsense about Marino, you sound ignorant. _
The QB position has evolved. Being dumb can't work anymore. Favre is the best example and for the life of me, he will have his fans forever. But for 75% of his career, he was mediocre. Today's game is about decision-making, pre-snap reads, not just arm-strength. Marino was a dumb player who made horrible decisions on a consistent basis. But yes, when he closed his eyes and winged it, he looked amazing. And against slow 80s athletes
I would not expect an immature child to understand the difference between the NFL today and the NFL of 20-25 years ago. The offenses were different, the rules were different, it was a totally different game. Downfield passing, 7 step drops, mugging receivers and crushing QBs versus 3 step drops, dink and dunk west coast schemes and no touching receivers and red pinneys for QBs. Buy a clue. I can explain it for you but I can't understand it for you too. _
If Marino is the player you said he was, and he such a strong arm, why were defenders so easily capable of shutting him down? His career from 1988 on is like Testaverde level. You tell me. If it's Brady "clutch playoff magic" stuff, I'll give you that.
You never saw Marino, stop making shit up to support your Wonderlic stupidity. You never saw him and you sound like a fool. _
I get that you just started watching football in the last 10 years, but whether you want to admit it or not, it was a different game 20 years ago. Ronnie Lott would have been fine $11 million in his day. CBS would have wracked up 200 yards in PI penalties EVERY GAME. But you continue to deny it. Doesn't mean it wasn't reality. _
Joe Montana was somehow able to put up good numbers while DBs wore ski masks and threatened WRs at gun point. The game has evolved. QBs now are smarter and better. Is there a sport on the planet where athletes from 3 decades ago were better? You show me it. The Olympics have proven that athletes have gotten worse right? Damn them for breaking record after record. People romanticize the past because it is when they were younger, didn't understand the game, and during their formative years before they knew better. No offense to Marino, but he would not have been an impressive player in today's NFL. Just look at his last few years. Garbage. At least Elway can say he played slightly above average in the late 90s.
Well, first of all my comment was a joke. Read my post again and then read the thread title. Second, I don't know if you are addressing me or JStokes with the pro-Marino stuff. I actually prefer Rodgers.
Marino was very good back in the day. His first few years when he could survive on arm talent alone. Marino played 18 years and threw 30 TDs one time in the last 14 of them. That's not good.
