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What current QB resembles Marino's game?

I personally dont see one that throws like Dan. Dan was. A freak throwing the ball. He made a decision to throw faster than many. Plus the way he threw I dont see many comparisons. Out of thos intangibles Peyton and Rodgers come to mind with decision to throw and where. Other than that there is no comparison. Also Dan threw in an era where DBs could do more.
 
retarmyfinfan said:
Nobody and nobody ever will. Am I a homer or what? Lol
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No, anyone who actually watched Marino...I mean really watched Marino, know how great he really was.

How great was he? He reached only one superbowl, a few AFC championships, never won a superbowl, yet hard as people want to dismiss him among the best ever, they realistically can't.

Think about this: Take away the SBs from Elway, Montana, Brady, Manning....do they continue to survive in talks as far as best ever as well as Marino has? Marino wins just one Superbowl, and people would probably continually talk about who was the 2nd best ever.

How rare is it to have a QB that Defenses more times then not, knew what he was going to do, yet still could not stop him.
 
Similarity to the 2013 Manning in what he had to deal with. A OL that was good at protecting him, good WR's (in the Duper/Clayton/Mooore era), but not much of a running game and a defense that was a huge liability. Few, if any, teams win Super Bowls with the defenses Marino had or Manning had this year.
 
walt said:
Similar disposition. I remember one announcer said of Marino "he keeps his confidence because he's never in his career made a bad pass, it's always been the receiver's fault."

The arm? I would put Colin Kaepernick most similar, but other than arm they have no similarities. Manning has the vision that Marino had (at least until his final years) and ability to read defenses.
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Please don't ever compare anything about Kapernick to Marino
Kapernick has a long slow release, Dan's was lightning quick.

The Brady Montana comparison is so tired. Since Brady had a great team around him, a great kicker, and the tuck rule his team won super bowls. Now he is Montana to everyone
 
tay0365 said:
No, anyone who actually watched Marino...I mean really watched Marino, know how great he really was.

How great was he? He reached only one superbowl, a few AFC championships, never won a superbowl, yet hard as people want to dismiss him among the best ever, they realistically can't.

Think about this: Take away the SBs from Elway, Montana, Brady, Manning....do they continue to survive in talks as far as best ever as well as Marino has? Marino wins just one Superbowl, and people would probably continually talk about who was the 2nd best ever.

How rare is it to have a QB that Defenses more times then not, knew what he was going to do, yet still could not stop him.
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That was Manning throughout his entire tenure in Indy. As to the OP there really is no Marino, just as there will never be another Manning, Montana etc etc.
 
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where's th'fish said:
When I said Manning, I meant in his prime, obviously. But both those guys had the arm, the pocket awareness, the ability not to get sacked, that being smarter than anyone else, the carrying the team on their shoulders. Like I said, no question about it.
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Never,even in his prime did Peyton have half the arm Dan had.
 
Not sure there is one or has ever been one. Far too many QB's are studs within their existing systems, but you put them on another team and they would not be the same. Heck, there are probably Hall of Famers who fit this criteria. I believe Danny could have played anywhere. He was a system in himself. Peyton could flourish anywhere and is close, imo, but Dan's arm was stronger. Imo, nobody has ever had the quick release and the ability to slide within the pocket that Danny did, nobody. Even later in his career, when he was basically playing on one leg, he frustrated pass rushers. Even though he never won a SB, I feel truly fortunate to have been able to watch his entire Hall of Fame career.
 
Montana Brady is the worst comparisons I've seen Montana was an option QB with a noodle arm and helluva competitive attitude Brady might be the most unathletic man ever to play the QB position.

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Namor said:
Never,even in his prime did Peyton have half the arm Dan had.
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That's not entirely true. Peyton at the beginning of his career had a very good arm, and could probably heave it just as far as Marino ever did.

But if you're talking Marino's blink-of-an-eye quick release, then you're right, Peyton never had that, nor did anyone else in the history of the league - with one exception, Jeff George.
 
Dolfan4life! said:
This is true. Manning has never been though of as having a cannon.
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Actually, on draft day there were a number of teams who questioned his arm. But Polian (who had questions himself when he worked him out), said that they did a number of pre-draft throwing drills on him, and that in all respects, his arm was extremely good.

And further to that, Marino was never thought to have a cannon either. What he did have was an otherworldly ability to throw a 20 yard rope with the flick of a wrist, where others needed a wind-up or an arm****. But he was never able to heave it 75 yards like say Randall Cunningham or Brett Favre.
 
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