So whats YOUR definition of a Franchise QB?

[NBP81]

Great topic. I think people confuse the term "franchise QB" and "elite QB". To me a franchise QB is solid player that you can build your team around with confidence that he will hold the position down for the better part of a decade. There are and have been plenty of QBs that were franchise players but not elite. To me guys like guys like Rivers, Big Ben, Matt Ryan and Flaco are franchise QBs but they aren't elite QBs. Historically guys like Bledsoe, Aikman, Simms and dare I say it Greise fall in this category.

Elite QBs are once in a generation players. Players who years from now people will still be talking about. This list is limited to a few guys at any one time and would currently include P Manning, Rodgers and Brady. And even Rodgers could fade from the list if for some reason his career doesn't stay on pace or is cut short (see Steve Young). Historically we are talking guys like Elway, Montana and of course Marino.

Interresting, I had the same definitions, but your version of elite is my version of franchise...

 

[JEDIJ007]

Anyone who doesn't blow like henne, pat white, culpepper, feeley. ect.....
And about Henne, where are all thoes Henne dickriders at? have seen them around in a while.

 

[MarSly]

Dan Marino