re: Has Anyone In The Sports Media Ever Heard Of Bart Starr?

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Different era and all that, but his 152/138 career TD/INT ratio probably has something to do with it as well. Those Packer offenses were built around Jim Taylor and Paul Horning and they really only threw when necessary. Nothing wrong with that since it worked for them, but that's one reason why Starr doesn't get mentioned in this conversation.

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All teams ran the ball more in that era, but that's because the rules back then made it much harder to pass than it is today, not to mention the indoor stadiums, the better playing fields and receiver's gloves which are 3 times stickier than bare skin. The gap between Starr's career passer rating and the average of his era is roughly the same as the gap for Brady and his era.