Aikman:Cowboys::Ken Dorsey:Miami Hurricanes

Aikman:Cowboys :: Ken Dorsey:Oversized undershirts

The year he got MVP votes the stats are hilarious.
3100 yds 15 TDs and 6 Ints and he was 5th in voting. Marcus Allen was 6th with 764 rushing yards. He scored 15 TDs but he was basically a TD vulture and averaged 3.7 ypc.

The MVP for the cowboys was the Oline. They made Smith, Aikman and Irving....they were incredible.

The Aikman hate is absurd. He was a stud and tough as nails. He got his arse beaten up regularly the first year or two and never shied away from hits. He has the concussions to prove it.

His above average arm was extremely accurate and he could make every throw. I picked a random year (1993). He led in completion percentage (69.1) and was second behind Young in QB rating (2nd behind Young in 1992 also). Most teams were run-first then. Few QBs put up the crazy numbers we see these days.

I don't even like the Cowboys, but he was the first overall pick and first ballot HOFer for a reason. 6 straight Pro Bowls and his QB rating in his three Super Bowls is a remarkable 111.9. Yes, his team was awesome for five years. So was Montana's. So was Young's. So were Bradshaw's, Staubach's and Warner's.

His last few years were not good. I will agree that he was not able to drag bad teams along like Elway (my personal favorite QB if I was starting a team). Jimmy Johnson said Aikman could have led the league in passing if he'd wanted him to.

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He was a stud and tough as nails. He got his arse beaten up regularly the first year or two and never shied away from hits.

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That doesn't make you a HOFer. Otherwise, David Carr is a 1st ballot HOFer.

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He handed the ball off to Emmitt Smith and got the ball to Michael Irvin. That's all that mattered. Oh and he had the best offensive and defensive line in football.

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You are correct, but when you are the QB of that team and win 3 Super Bowls, you get in the Hall of Fame. Bradshaw had Franco, Swann, Stallworth, and a legendary defense. Same situation.

Fact is, you don’t punish guys like that when considering for the HoF. It’s not their fault the GMs were great at what they did.

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Which is why I laugh when people downplay John Elway because he lost those Super Bowls.

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Also agree. Elway was an amazing QB. The disparity between the NFC and AFC at the time was insane. Hell, the NFC East had 3 different teams win SBs in 3 consecutive seasons.

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The NFC won 13 straight Super Bowls from 1984-1996. Everyone knew every year the NFC Title game was the real Super Bowl, especially those Niner-Cowboy matchups.

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And look at the blowouts.

49ers 38, Dolphins 16
Bears 46, Patriots 10
Giants 39, Broncos 20
Redskins 42, Broncos 10
49ers 55, Broncos 10
Redskins 37, Bills 24 (24-0 in the 3rd and 34-10 in the 4th)
Cowboys 52, Bills 17
Cowboys 30, Bills 13
49ers 49, Chargers 26

I mean, Dallas fricked around for a half and beat Buffalo handily. Washington scored 35 in a quarter against Denver. The Bengals-Niners was a classic, as was New York and Buffalo. Otherwise, they were duds until Dallas-Pittsburgh in 30 and Green Bay-NE in 31, and those weren’t exactly going down to the gun.

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Which is why I laugh when people downplay John Elway because he lost those Super Bowls. He DRAGGED a mediocre Broncos team to 3 Super Bowls.

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Elway played in 9 playoff games over those three runs to the Super Bowl. He completed 50% of his passes, threw 12 interceptions, and had passer rating below 80 in those nine games. That’s not exactly dragging a team due to his stellar individual performances.

Plus, only one of the nine games was on the road. Five were at home, plus the three neutral site SBs. The only thing anyone remembers about any of those nine games is a 5 minute 4th quarter drive to tie the game in Cleveland.

Elway had the better career, and overall is a better QB than Aikman. However, don’t use the playoffs as an example. Aikman is a better playoff QB than Elway by nearly every single metric.