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ROYALwCHEESE BS CB MS 2179 66 said 01/30, 04:22 PM
I got this topic from ESPN.com, where they listed all the top QB's from each decade. I was absolutely shocked when I saw Steve Young ahead of John Elway. There was other stiff competition, with the honorable mentions including Elway, Brett Favre, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and Warren Moon. John Elway won 2 Super Bowls in the 90's, Made it to 3 Super Bowls (including the one that was held in 1990),was named MVP in one of those Super Bowls, 6 Pro Bowls, 1 AFC Offensive MVP, and 3 AFC West Titles. Elway was the greatest QB in the 90's.

ROYALwCHEESE BS CB MS 2179 66 said 01/30, 05:06 PM
Elway could've had a better chance to get more division titles, had there not been 5 teams. The NFC West however, were the only team without 5 teams for a while. Also, John Elway's favorite receivers were Mark Jackson-1990, Mike Young1992, Shannon Sharpe-1992-1994, 1996-1997, Anthony Miller-1995, and in 1998, Rod Smith. 5 years it was a TE. And MAYBE two of these guys are HOF worthy. Steve Young's favorite targets. In 1997 it was Terrell Owens. In the rest of the years, it was soon-to-be HOFer, and maybe the greatest player of all time, Jerry Rice. Steve Young had Jerry Rice to throw to, while Elway was stuck with a great TE, but not a WR,and some good WR's, but most of them not even talked about anymore. I don't wanna take anything away from Young, he is a great QB, but it's hard not to be a great QB when you get to throw to the best player in the game.

These 2 were also great scramblers, both running QB's. In this category I would give the edge to Elway because if he ran all the way over to the right sidelines, if he saw that he could throw it to the guy all the way on the other side of the field, he could do it no problem.

ROYALwCHEESE BS CB MS 2179 66 said 01/30, 05:38 PM
Comparing WR cores is fine. I'm not taking away anything from Steve, I'm just giving you something to consider.

And why do you think he was on the bench for 9 years? Not cause he was the greatest QB of all time. And nice job sticking the word VETERAN backup in there, cause you know I coulda used Tom Brady to hurt you. JK. But there is a typo in that paragraph. Young did not sit the bench for 9 years. He sat his first year, started his second, and then sat 4 years, but did start in 10 games during that time. So he did get quite a bit of experience in those years. But he wasn't even in the league for nine years when he became the starter for the Niners.

With the rushing, I said rushing AND scrambling. Elway was probably THE best scrambler in the game and one of the best out of the packet QB's in the game. There is a difference between a rushing QB and a scrambling QB.

The bottom line is, these are definitely the 2 greatest QB's of the 1990's. And though some of the stats don't show it, Elway was definitely the better of the 2.