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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
And all three had one common denominator, the best WR in football. That is the problem with rating QBs, there are so many other factors and too much credit is given to the QB. All three of those guys are great QBs but you'll never convince me that if you plugged Peyton Manning in for them that he wouldn't have been better.
Take a guy like Troy Aikman, he's not in the top 100 QBs to ever live but when you have one of the greatest O-Lines in football history, Emmit Smith in the backfield, and Michael Irvin, Alvin Harper, and Jay Novacek to throw to you become a Hall of Famer. Hell, Mark Rypien won a Super Bowl for one of the most dominant single season teams I have ever seen strictly cause they had the most amazing line in NFL history.
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Actually, Aikman was, if anything, underrated. They didn't pass very much in that offense. They could easily have been a much more prolific offense.
The real beneficiary of all those stud offensive players was Emmit Smith. Grossly overrated in my estimation. I can only imagine Barry Sanders on that team, that would have been sick.