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Dan Marino (Best Pure Passer in NFL History) NFL Legends

Marino started 9 games in '83. he was certainly no slouch in those but '84 wasn't his rookie year when he blew up. Greatest pure passer the league has ever seen.

Manning is the best QB though. I remember watching Peyton when the Colts were still in the AFC East and thinking he would be the guy one day to break Marino's records if his health allowed him to. PM's knowledge of the game is second to none. Marino could let it rip and make any throw thru any window he needed whenever he wanted, but Manning, along with his accuracy and touch, manipulated and mind****ed defenses like no one else ever has.
That's right - we were 2-3 or something when he got the nod. I think he only lost 1 game and the offense completely changed the moment he stepped on the field in '83. In the Raiders monday night game I recall us down like 24-0 and they put Marino in game out of reach - he had 2 drives, 2 TD tosses and made it look easy. Your point about Peyton is a valid one - and he almost suffered the same irrational fate as Dan. That team that beat the Bears - well, the Bears were a fluke and the Colts got a lucky draw. Then in Denver he got carried to a championship. I agree that if someone wants to pick a guy that might be better than Dan it would be Peyton - not Brady, not Montana - those guys couldn't carry teams on their backs like Dan and Peyton could.
 
Best pure passer I 1000 percent agree. Burns me to the core that john elway gets held in higher standard cause he won championships Marino was another level.
The funny thing is, no one thought Elway was better - the conversation at the time was "Marino or Montana" during all these guys' prime. Then John got two SB at the age of 37/38 thanks to a great run game and all of a sudden he became top of the '83 class. Elway had intangibles - he really did - he was a better QB when he was losing SBs than when he won them - and the reason his teams were in those SB games was largely because of him (the ones they lost). But he had a better supporting cast than Dan and got to be sacrificial lamb served up by the AFC during that 15 year run of NFC dominance 3 times to Dan's 1. But Dan was the better QB - no question.
 
Marino was ahead of his time. It was a different league when he played than it is now. I would absolutely love to see him in his prime playing in this league with these rules. He was a monster back then. He would be a god today.
 
Marino is the GOAT. Simple as that.

Joe Montana was great. But clearly, was a masterful executor of a great system. That being Walsh's West Coast offense. Brady is of the same mold.

Dan Marino was the system.
 
As great as brady is i don't think he has the physical toughness to survive in the 70's or 80's (when you could maul qb's and receivers). Id take montana or marino every day of the week and twice on sunday over brady.
 
As great as brady is i don't think he has the physical toughness to survive in the 70's or 80's (when you could maul qb's and receivers). Id take montana or marino every day of the week and twice on sunday over brady.
He certainly wouldn't have been able to get up after any legal hit and scream like a little baby at the officials back then.
 
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