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Originally Posted by RealSNR
Oh, that's your thing? The game was just played differently?
Whatever, man. You're gonna tell me Warner's incredible 1999 season was in this brave new era that Elway never got to experience? Marino? Young? Again, Favre? Hell, ever look up Len Dawson's stats? He had two seasons with more TD passes than Elway's best season.
You would have been better off going down Garcia's path of, "Only people who saw him play will know how good he was because of the eye test. And if you disagree you're an idiot."
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That's not how I was painting it, but ok. I'm not on a mission to win hearts and minds around here, or change opinions.
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Originally Posted by RedinTexas
The game evolves. The rules Elway played under were also different than the rules that previous generations had played under. Elway had advantages that QBs like Namath, Unitas, Luckman, Graham, Bradshaw, etc did not. How much did Elway benefit from rules changes over previous QBs?
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Totally agree and mentioned that a few posts earlier, that's what makes the comparisons over decades tricky.