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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Tarkenton would be getting at least half a dozen roughing the passer calls in every game while throwing to receivers who aren't getting constantly bumped off the line of scrimmage, flattened by safeties as they ran across the middle, and hand-checked by cornerbacks as they ran down the sidelines.
Not a critique of the modern game, just an observation of how different things are.
I don't think there's any question QB's like Tarkenton and Staubach were great, no matter what era they were in.
It's when it comes to guys like Joe Namath, people get kind of over-heated with the over-rated talk. Not because they are comparing him to Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers...but to contemporaries like John Hadl and Daryl Lamonica who never got a sniff at the HOF, but who appear to have been objectively better at playing QB then Namath was.
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That's exactly it. I sometimes wonder what those guys could do if they were playing in todays game. I'd would figure they'd but right up with the best of the modern guys.
On the other hand, John Hannah who looked huge in his time was only 6-2 265. Today he'd be a small quick lineman.