True, but Mirer had plenty more pass attempts, aka, plenty more chances to screw up. Amazing, Parcells was actually torn over drafting Bledsoe or Mirer number one in New England!
We're talking top 5 QB's, not if they were great or not. Don't try to tell us Boomer, O'Donnell and the likes have been better than Chad.
Strictly in terms of what they accomplished at the position as Jets (as opposed to rating their entire career performances) I'd say Boomer, O'Donnell and Ryan. I saw Boomer on the street this morning walking into the vet.
O'Donnell did squat for the Jets. I would put Lucas, Bollinger, Eason, Carter, Reich, Robinson, Trudeau and Tupa ahead of O'donnell.
Clemmens. Period. History is nice and all but ,to be honest, I couldn't care less about it. What was your favorite Coslet moment? Remember when Slingin' Sammie was on our team? No offense my fellow JET fan but let's look ahead not back. I like my Ex-girlfriend better than the one I got now but she ain't coming back. If I could only be so lucky with the one I got now.
Goddamn people forget how great Penny was before his shoulder injuries. division championships, huge playoff wins and a play off run they ended in a heart breaking filed goal miss that would send us to the AFC championship game; he did that with a torn rotator cuff. Man some of you are just ungrateful bastards. Penny was great, now he might or might not come back to form, but he did great things for us. He might not have had the big arm, but he was accurate and rarely ever made mistakes. Like it or not, Penny could of been the next Joe Montana and from what I recall, he also never had a big arm. For what he did, Penny was great.
If you include the entire history of the franchise Al Dorow was a better qb for the Titans than anyone on that list was for the Jets. Now largely forgotten, he was an AFL pro bowler, a solid passer with great scrambling ability who helped Don Maynard establish himself as a star. The 72 passes that Maynard caught from Dorow in 1960 were the highest total in his career.
I would like to say, for the record, that these are the posts I like the most this time of year. None of us, as fans, REALLY know what this era will bring but we all have memories. It just seems that these kind of posts are sometimes lost here. Draft, free-agency, etc. does get old this time of year but I just hate all the losing. And in the past we have been losers.
Ryan won a playoff game. Lucas went 6-3 in 1999. Boomer Esiason was good in 1993 and then bad with the playoffs on the line in the final game of that season. He was mediocre in 1994 and 1995. Babe Parilli was a backup by the time he got to the Jets. He was 38 in 1968. He threw 55 passes in 1968 and 24 in 1969. He had a 91.6 rating in '68 and 85.1 in '69. Parilli passed for 3465 yards for Boston in 1964 which led the AFL.
Boomer, Robinson and Ryan. But Ramsey or Clemens coulld quickly challenge Boomer for number 6 on that list.
