A question about Troy Aikman....

Right, and just like Schneed said, they both played so long that the numbers seem to gel, but over that course of time, a YPC with .5 more is a LOT.

Yeah. And even if you do think that the 0.5 YPC difference is a small difference, what's so impressive is the fact that Montana exhibited a better completion percentage in conjunction with the higher YPC.

I say Montana has to be the most accurate QB, but Aikmen does rank up there with guys like Joe, Marino, Bradshaw, etc...

Marino is probably the most impressive, because I don't remember him ever having someone like Jerry Rice, Lyn Swann, or Michael Ervin to throw to. I'm sure Duper and Clayton were good receivers, but probably not HOF type of guys.

Montana's career yards per completion was also better, at 11.9 compared with Aikman's 11.4.

Montana's best year for accuracy seemed to be in 1989 when he put up a 70.2% completion percentage with 13.0 yards per completion. Aikman's best came in 1993 when he put up a comparable 69.1% completion percentage, but his yards per completion that year wasn't as impressive at 11.4.

Montana definitely has him beat.

This my friends is impossible to tell, there is no way you can ever judge this. Passing accuracy falls into the same category as "bat speed" or "best jump shot" Using average yards per completion is no good. How many times have we all seen Jerry Rice catch a 6 yard slant and turn it into a 50 yard foot race! Also, you have to look at attempts, weather conditions, playing indoor/outdoor. Manning would not have the same numbers if he played in Buffalo. Quality of WR's? I mean, you can't do it. I remember a SI article a long time ago saying Bernie Kosar was crazy accurate, that might be something to look into, he played outdoors, never had WR's to speak of?

marino was good but i would not put him up there with aikman,young and montana. i do believe that aikman was dead on with his passes. he did have some talent around him but he is still one of the best of all time. i believe that im going to give him my vote for being the most accurate though. sorry guys!

This my friends is impossible to tell, there is no way you can ever judge this. Passing accuracy falls into the same category as "bat speed" or "best jump shot" Using average yards per completion is no good. How many times have we all seen Jerry Rice catch a 6 yard slant and turn it into a 50 yard foot race! Also, you have to look at attempts, weather conditions, playing indoor/outdoor. Manning would not have the same numbers if he played in Buffalo. Quality of WR's? I mean, you can't do it. I remember a SI article a long time ago saying Bernie Kosar was crazy accurate, that might be something to look into, he played outdoors, never had WR's to speak of?

True enough about Jerry Rice, of course Michael Irvin made several plays in his day too. Irvin posted a 15.9 yards per catch average in his Dallas days. Jerry Rice, in the years in which Montana was his QB (Montana to Rice: 1985-1992), exhibited a 16.9 yards per catch. Both YPC numbers are excellent, but it's entirely possible that Jerry Rice was the difference between Montana's 11.9 and Aikman's 11.4.

Then again that's hard to say too, because Irvin and Aikman have a confounding statistical effect on one another, and so do Montana and Rice. It's like which is more accurate, Rice wouldn't have been Rice without Joe Montana, or Montana wouldn't have been Montana without Jerry Rice.

This makes my head hurt. You're right, it comes down to subjectivity.

What are you guys somking? Brunell is the most accurate passer in league history. He almost always hits the ground.

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I will say this about Aikmans accuracy he had a lot of completions where he would just throw the ball up for grab's downfield and let Ervin and Harper out jump the defender's, not many QB's have had that opportunity through their career's, and that's the ability to throw a ball up for grab's knowing your reciever's will come down with it most of the time.

But I do disagree with one of the post's that Aikman was a pansy, he was as tough as they come, I don't think I ever saw a QB take a beating like he did in the championship game against san fran in the mid 90's when they were down 21 in the first quater and he almost brought them back while just being pummled over and over again while throwing downfield, he earned my respect with that one.

What are you guys somking? Brunell is the most accurate passer in league history. He almost always hits the ground.


The sad part is, for a few years, he was one of the most accurate guys in the leauge.

SEVERAL QB's CLAIM THE MOST ACCURATE PASSER AWARD:

THIS ONE CLAIMS AIKMAN from a dallas fans website

His 99.0 quarterback rating was second highest in team history and second in the NFL that year...He was the NFL's most accurate passer with a 69.1 % completion rate. By posting 90 regular season wins, he closed out the 1990s as the winningest starting quarterback of any decade in NFL history, topping Joe Montana?s previous best of 86 wins in the 1980s. His completion percentage (61.6v third best in NFL history). He is also ninth in NFL history with a quarterback rating of 82.64.

ANOTHER FOR AIKMAN FOR THE YEAR 1993
He has become one of the game?s most accurate passers, completing at least 60 percent of his passes in 92-of-154 career games (60xf his games). In the postseason, he has reached the 60|ompletion mark in 12-of-16 games (75þ He has completed 70 percent or more of his passes 41 times in his career, with Dallas posting a 37-4 record in those games, and he has produced the top six single-season completion percentages in club history. Due to that passing accuracy, Aikman has also lowered his club-record career interception rate to 2.85çDespite beginning his career 1-14,

THIS ONE VOTES FOR STEVE YOUNG:
Combining his incredible athleticism and toughness, Steve Young has proven to be one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history. With his amazing career quarterback rating of 96.2, Steve Young stands as the most accurate passer in the NFL's history.

THIS ONE SAYS BRETT FAVRE as #1 WITH DAN MARINO #2
Is the NFL's most accurate passer among those with at least 6,000 career attempts, his 61.3 career completion percentage placing him substantially ahead of No. 2 Dan Marino (59.4%);