We are lucky football fans!!!

Brodie, Tarkenton, Dawson, Manning, Staubach, Griese, Plunkett, Lamonica, Pastorini, Jurgensen, Unitas, Namath, Ken Anderson, Stabler, Gabriel (who chucked for the equivalent of 3700 yards one season when bumping receivers all the way was cool), Bart Starr, Earl Morrall, Don Meredith, Kemp, Blanda: 1968-1973.

They generally called their own plays, ran the offense, and passed for then very high yards. If you go per attempt and consider that stickem, unlimited abuse of receivers and the like were the norm (and deflections like Denver's touchdown last week were illegal), they were much better than today's QBs. You're not going to find 20 much better QBs active since 2003. Depending on your evaluations, equal at best, and with 32 teams in the league now, there are a lot more Kyle Orton's and the like starting for years than there were in the past.