Best All Time AFC West QB's
 

I was talking with a friend of mine and we got on the topic of All time best players by position in a specific division.

It would be cool to see if we can get a consensus. The only rules are that the players must be the best at their position for each team. What is the definition of best? There are no clear cut lines, however a few guidelines: Hall of fame inductee, super bowl appearances, statistical dominance and team effectiveness while employed by that team. Players who established greatness with another team can only be considered if they continued amazing accomplishments with their new team.

Only Current AFC West teams will be considered - Seattle will be considered NFC west in another poll.


***EDIT***

Network fail - lost connectivity and lost ability to set up a poll maybe a mod could fix?

Supposed to be BY TEAM

DEN:
Elway
Morton
Manning
Plummer
Cutler

SD:
Fouts
Rivers
Flutie
Humphries

KC:
Dawson
Green
Montana
DeBerg

OAK:
Stabler
Gannon
Hostetler
Schroeder

Elway, like it or not.

In. Elway.

Plunkett won two SB I think.

Bust be the best? Sounds like a term definitely coined by the Chiefs. We've had plenty of really good bust QBs.

Brodie Croyle, 0-10.

Network fail - lost connectivity and lost ability to set up a poll maybe a mod could fix?

Supposed to be BY TEAM

DEN:
Elway
Morton
Manning
Plummer
Cutler

SD:
Fouts
Rivers
Flutie
Humphries

KC:
Dawson
Green
Montana
DeBerg

OAK:
Stabler
Gannon
Hostetler
Schroeder

Hall of Famers
John Elway
Len Dawson
Dan Fouts

Raider Studs
Kenny Stabler
Daryl Lammonica

Hall of Famers at the End of the Career
Joe Montana
Peyton Manning

nice catch

Elway, Fouts a ways back, then everyone else

It is supposed to be by team - if you had to pick the best from each team

Elway, Fouts, Stabler, Dawson.

WTH...While not Fouts how could you not put John Hadl down as a Chargers great QB...4 straight seasons averaging 3,000 yards and 23 TDs per with a 14 game schedule. Major mistake.

TBH I had to google all time best SD QB's (other than Fouts and Brees) I had no idea

Leather helmets gave him an advantage:D

LMAO - Wasn't trying to go too far past the days of the NFL

Other than Dawson the AFC West has pretty much been the Gobi Desert of great QBs. I guess I'd reluctantly add Fouts as his backup and then maybe Stabler as the clipboard carrier.

:D Ass.

LMAO

John Hadl was the best QB in the AFL, and should have been named the All AFL QB instead of Lenny Dawson.
Dawson had the advantage of playing on one of the best teams in the league.

Other than Johnny U, I don't think there was a better QB in that era.

Don't sleep on Stan Humphries

Tyler Palko didn't make the list?

not even on my drunkest night.

He can hold the clip board that has the list.

I was close to adding Blackledge and Thigpen but Palko was a distant 10th

I have a policy.

Oh I'm well aware.

Jim Plunkett won 2 super bowls with the Raiders & MVP in one of them.

I don't blame you for blockiig that out of your psyche, but he belongs on a poll.

I would still choose Snake. It is not Kenny Stabler's fault the Steel Curtain stole 4 SB trophies from the silver and black.

I relly think Dwayne Bowe and Demarius Thomas have a shot at being All AFC West in the Next 5-7 years

Just keeping with the theme :)

Rick Stanzi?

WTF!?

Plunkett probably should have made the list but it's not about SB wins/HOF inductions

Its the overall picture - how many good years, how many championships (Division/Conference/NFL) Touchdowns, passing yards (lack of) interceptions, Wins - etc etc

No Lamonica for the raiders?

LMAO fail again bro~

How could he forget the mad bomber?

In that Blurred Lines song they keep singing, Bray-a-hay. In the back ground.

:shrug:

Do we all agree the best of the West was Elway?

I can still remember him throwing against the Chiefs with Curt Gowdy doing the play by play.

Gowdy is a legend.

It hurts but I have said before he is the best I have seen play. If there is a better QB I have not seen him and I have seen quite a few~

Props. I'd have said the same if he was a Raider. Guy just had it.

He is, but I thought Charlie Jones was better.
Favorite play by play ever.

Surely you jest. Played in 3 super bowl losses including a 55-10 point blowout to the 49ers. That is not all on Elway, he didn't play on defense. But an ability to move the chains would have taken the ball out of the 49ers hands.

He flat stunk. 10 for 26 for 108 yards and 0 TDs.

He was a great QB and earned his slot in the hall of fame from the complete body of his work, but I'm not convinced he is the creme of the division.

Edit: Upon further review, welp, yes Elway is the all-time best QB from the NFC west, much as it chokes me to say it. I hate Elway and always will. Big baby.

Montana was better but he didn't play long enough in the AFC West. But yes Elway was the best quarterback in the division, that SOB was good.

The ONLY reason they got to those 3SBs was Elway. Come on man.

I loved Charlie Jones voice. Great broadcaster. Also I liked Dick Enberg as well.

Props. And he was better than good, he was hof great. The plays he made, the 40 yard rockets across his body with a man hanging off him, haven't been seen since. Love him or hate him, you have to respect the play.

Loved Jones.

Agreed

Merlin Olsen, who partnered with Enberg as the color commentator, is the bestever in that role to me.

Am I alone in liking Madden?

The AFC was an incredibly weak conference in those days, and the Broncos were really not a very good team.

Elway, more than any other single player, carried his team to those SBs.

No.

I am pretty sure I am alone in hating him from the first time he entered the booth.

You know your ball. We had shit and Elway willed us there.

Fair. I actually meet Madden on a team bus in 1976 when I was a little boy. He was very nice to me, liked him ever since. Liked Cosell too though those memories are hazy.

I am too young to have heard Olsen in the booth. But considering he was also an actor I could believe you in saying he was great in the booth.

I got over that whole "BOOM, POW, BAM" thing watching Batman in the 60s.
Shit just irritated the hell out of me.

He was damn good. Knew his ball, knew the booth.

Totally get that. Lots of my friends were the same way. I appreciated the passion.

Elway, no question. He had it all and was one of the few that could block out Arrowhead distractions and still play with authority.

Don't see many coaches smoking on the sidelines during games these days. I agree also that Plunkett needs to be on there. Most rings won by a Raider QB.

Elway slam dunk.

Out of your list?

DEN:
Elway
Morton
(Manning)

SD:
Fouts
Humphries

KC:
Dawson
DeBerg
(Montana)

OAK:
Stabler
Gannon

I don't think Manning should count for the Broncos, and I don't think Montana should count for the Chiefs.