Nov 26, 2011

A lot of touchdowns does not mean that quarterback is super elite

What does it mean to be in super elite league? For me it means stable long career. There were only 17 quarterback in Super Bowl era of NFL history who scored more than 200 touchdowns. Five of them are still in the Game (shown by red color on figure below). Okey, actually two of them, because Peyton is injured and Kerry and Donovan are backups. Let's have a look on next figure. I took QB's, which were drafted after 1965 and have more than 200 touchdowns on November 26th 2011 . Here green are guys who finished in 2000's, magenta -- in 90's and blue -- 80's. Starred ones are in the Hole of Fame. Red ones still can improve their scores, and of course deteriorate some differential ratings.
Funny thing is that only 7 of ever them won Super Bowl (16 of the in total out of 45). I didn't include Drew Bledsoe to this list because he watched from the bench Super-Bowl which is in his records.

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