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BuffaloFan said 06/09, 06:37 PM
Career Stats:

1,808 for 3,149 (57.4%)

24,718 yards

7.8 YPA

152 TD

138 INT

80.5 passer rating

Bart Starr is the only quarterback to have a ring on every finger of his throwing hand. That's right 5 superbowl rings.

He is the best postseason passer in NFL history: 104.8 playoff passer rating with a 1.41 interception rate which is also a postseason record.

He led the NFL in passer rating five times. Johnny Unitas led the league in passer rating just twice. Same with Joe Montana. Only Steve Young surpassed Starr???s mark (six).

BuffaloFan said 06/10, 10:40 AM
Joe Montana is an excellent pick. I would put him at the second best Quarterback of all-time. I understand that only a couple of Starr's stats are better than Montana's but this is still why I would have to go with Starr:

Starr played in an era when 80 was a decent passer rating. Yet he still performed more efficiently in the playoffs than folks such as Montana, Brady, Manning, Marino, Young and ??? well, anybody, ever.

History also remembers Starr???s Packers as a great running team, and that???s certainly true of their earlier years. But the truth is that they typically passed the ball more effectively than they ran it, especially during their run of three straight, when they were a below-average running team.

In their 1965 championship season, the Packers were 11th in the 14-team league with an average of 3.4 yards per rushing attempt. They were second in the league, with an average of 8.2 yards per passing attempt.

In their 1966 championship season, the Packers were 14th in the 15-team league, with an average of 3.5 yards per rushing attempt. They were first in the league, with an average of 8.9 yards per passing attempt.

BuffaloFan said 06/10, 02:03 PM
No. I don't agree with you. Starr was Lombardi???s second in command, a tremendous big-game performer, and that the Packers of the 1960s would have been just another team without the prolific Starr as their beloved on-field leader. Instead, they won five NFL championships, with Starr at the helm of every single one of those title teams, while he crafted an NFL-record 9-1 postseason mark. The rings say it all. Starr averaged a remarkable 7.85 YPA over the course of his entire career, the 8th-best mark in history, and better than that of a slate of quarterbacks who are generally regarded as the best passers in history, including Dan Marino (7.37), Joe Montana (7.52), Roger Staubach (7.67), Dan Fouts (7.68), Sonny Jurgensen (7.56), Fran Tarkenton (7.27), Y.A. Tittle (7.52), Terry Bradshaw (7.17) and Joe Namath (7.35). To cap his career achievements, Starr earned MVP honors in the first two Super Bowls after shredding the best the AFL could throw his way for 452 yards on 47 passing attempts (9.6 YPA). When it comes to a combination of leadership, victories, big-game performances and statistical supremacy NOBODY put together a more total package than Bart Starr, the greatest QB all-time.