Pretty interesting article.
I have my own thoughts, which I'll share later.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...no-rookie-qb-dolphins-s050509,0,2495875.story
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Marino's rookie TD-to-INT ratio is silly (20/6). He should be considered the best rookie QB ever by that metric alone.
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Marino is the best everything ever. Rookie QB, television commentator, car salesman, weight loss product hawker, actor in a Jim Carrey movie, Halo player, you name it, Dan is the Man! I don't need an article to tell me that.
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Has to be. Ryan can't hold Marino's jock strap.
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Dan is #1. If they wanted to ask the best team performance with a rookie QB, fine Pittsburgh did pretty well.opfinistic likes this. -
Simple answer: Yes, best rookie. Best ever to play.
I'll keep my homer hat on when it comes to the man!mullingan likes this. -
I think you also have to take into account the era in which Marino played compared to Roethlisberger. The game changed a lot over 20 years. It was easier to complete a higher % of passes and throw fewer INTs for Big Ben. Ben's TD % was 5.8, Dan's was 6.8. Ben's INT % was 3.7, Dan's was 2.0.
I don't care what hat I'm wearing, he was the best rookie and the best player ever. Us Fin fans are often accused of blind homerism when it comes to Dan. But more often than not those making that accusation are being homers themselves, and worse yet they don't understand the game.StLouisFinFan, unluckyluciano, HardKoreXXX and 3 others like this. -
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not many people know this guy but supposedly he couldve been a dan marino in the 70s. unfortunately the medical procedures for a torn rotator cuff werent as advanced as today
Greg Cook (Cincinnati, 1969) Cook is one of the NFL's all-time one-year wonders. He threw 15 TD passes for the Bengals with gaudy averages of 9.4 yards per attempt and 17.5 yards per completion. But an initially untreated arm injury proved career-ending; Cook attempted only three more passes, in 1973, before retiring.DeDolfan, UCF FINatic and unluckyluciano like this. -
There is no question that Marino was, by far, the best rookie QB ever. There isn't even a close second. How they could put big Ben ahead of him is beyond me. Ben was steady, but unspectacular. Danny Boy was like lightening in a bottle. There is such a huge gap between the two that it isn't even remotely close.
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Bill Walsh, who coached him in Cincinatti, said he was the most gifted QB he ever coached. Better than Montana, Young, etc.
Things weren't what they are today, and the doctors didn't know anything was wrong with him. So he shot up and played the season out, making things worse. They didn't know about the rotator cuff or that his bicep was detached. Surgery being what it was then compared to now, they ripped his shoulder apart after the season and basically that was it for his career. He was never the same.
NFL Network compared his injury to that of Drew Brees. Nowdays he would have been OK the next season and continued on. His teammate, Bob Trumpy, says it had a lasting effect on him, carrying around what he lost.gafinfan, adamprez2003 and steveincolorado like this. -
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Simple question, if you had a team with under two minutes left in the game and you were inside your 20 yard line with no timeouts remaining and your teams chances all relied on your QB's arm who would you want, Dan Marino or Ben Rothlisberger?
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By contrast, Marino stepped into the game, and everybody, and I mean everybody stopped whatever in the hell it was they were doing and said "WOW.....JUST WOW!!!".
THAT'S how you know who was greatest.adamprez2003, DevilFin13 and dolphindebby like this. -
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In my lifetime there have only been two pro's in any sport that have had the moniker "The Man" Stan (who I met as a teen) and Dan they both deserved it. Truly class all the way!!
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Flacco's QB Rating last year (for lack of a more telling variable independent of defensive play): 80
Fiedler's QB Rating over a 4 yr span in Miami (with at least 11 starts per year): 78
Both "won" games, but neither shined as a QB, IMHO. -
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Point is that Flacco earned his own props pretty much on his own. Playoofs or not, he did what HE did. As a rookie slated to be the #3 and thrust into the starting role right before the season started and playing the way he did pretty much summed it up for him. Our QBs of this decade didn't get the same accolades when our D was among the best and we were in the playoffs. -
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial[/ame]
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However, Ted the man or Mickey the man, just doesn't resonate nearly as well!! :lol:gafinfan likes this. -
Poor Woodley.
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