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Defensewins · 03-09-2008, 10:04 AM

I really enjoyed watching Tarkenton play and when he played against the Redskins I hated him.
Tough guy to stop. He is definitely underrated.
Several of the QB's from that era are underrated.

As I mentioned on another thread todays QB's really benefit and have inflated stats due to the rule changes in the 80's, 90's and 00's to create more offense and protect the QB. Plus add in how Free Agency and expansion diluted the quality of team play especially on Defense.
Team defense was overall much better before free agency. The majority of the teams had good to respectable level of play on defense. Even today's perennial losers like the Cardinals, Browns, Lions were ok. They did not suck like they do now.
The large amount of media and fan adulation for today's great Qb's are getting needs to be tempered with the fact that the recording breaking stats Brady, Manning and Farve are reaching has in some part to do with how the game has dramatically changed to favor throwing the ball over running or being balanced.

03-09-2008, 10:04 AM	#7
Defensewins Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 3,765	Re: Who else thinks Fran Tarkenton is underrated? I really enjoyed watching Tarkenton play and when he played against the Redskins I hated him. Tough guy to stop. He is definitely underrated. Several of the QB's from that era are underrated. As I mentioned on another thread todays QB's really benefit and have inflated stats due to the rule changes in the 80's, 90's and 00's to create more offense and protect the QB. Plus add in how Free Agency and expansion diluted the quality of team play especially on Defense. Team defense was overall much better before free agency. The majority of the teams had good to respectable level of play on defense. Even today's perennial losers like the Cardinals, Browns, Lions were ok. They did not suck like they do now. The large amount of media and fan adulation for today's great Qb's are getting needs to be tempered with the fact that the recording breaking stats Brady, Manning and Farve are reaching has in some part to do with how the game has dramatically changed to favor throwing the ball over running or being balanced.