I dont Hate Matt Ryan and I am mostly just apathetic toward the Falcons. But Matt Ryan has good numbers in an era when all QBs have good numbers. I dont think there will ever be a ballot of 15 finalists where he is one of the top 5 options. I could be wrong though, I rarely get more than 3 of 5 right.
That's still very much a hotly-debated issue. If we're using the criteria of overall wins and losses over his career as a starting QB, or his performances in postseason(particularly SB 51 and Falcons epic, legendary 28-3 collapse) sure, its been a long shot Ryan even makes the HOF Semifinalists list, but if he stays healthy for another 3-4 seasons and doesn't suffer any significant career-ending injury, if he makes it a numbers game ala Dan Fouts and ends up with 60,000-65,000 passing yards, even if taken into context of a more passing league, those marks are still hard to overlook and totally ignore for HOF voters or writers.
The Denver Broncos of the mid-late 80s made 3 SB trips in 4 seasons in mostly same weak AFC conference back then those great Bills teams did. Its not 4 consecutive Super Bowl berths, but its still pretty damn close and besides Elway, how many individual Broncos players from those 3 SB teams from the mid-late 80s are in HOF? Tom Jackson, Rulon Jones, Karl Mecklenburg, Steve Atwater? Dan Reeves, who has 200 overall career wins as a HC and who played in several memorable NFL Title games with Cowboys in mid-late 60s, including the Ice Bowl where he threw a HB option pass for a TD that gave Cowboys a 4th quarter lead until Dallas defense collapsed on Packers last GW drive and Starr's now-famous QB sneak to win it.
It’s a long shot for Ryan to go into the Hall. He’s the leader of the biggest blown lead in sports. People who don’t even watch sports know what 28-3 means. That’s how bad of a hit that game was. Add to that, the Falcons were already known as one of the least successful franchises in the League.
Warren Moon and the 1992 Houston Oilers probably have that honor, in first building a 28-3 halftime lead then adding on it with a Chris Dishman INT return for a TD early in the 3rd quarter to make it, 35--3. Then Buffalo behind former backup QB (and current Colts HC) managed to pull off, with some poorly called and managed Oilers INTs, to come back and force an OT, at 38-38, then win it, with a Steve Christie FG,,41-38. Nearly 28 years later, NFL fans over the age of 45-50 still remember and discuss the "Comeback", its ramifications for Bills making a third consecutive Super Bowl run and loss, and the long-term implications of Bud Adams losing patience with his talented playoff contender Oilers teams and threatening to blow up the team if they didn't win a Super Bowl in 1993. They got upset by Kansas City, 28--20, next season and Adams, ever the reckless, rash idiotic owner he was went through on his threat and blew up a squad that had made 7 consecutive playoff appearances and then demanded a new-football only stadium, fully publicly financed expense, or else he'd leave or relocate the Oilers eventually to Tennessee. Houston mayor, and city council got sick and tired of his near-decade long blackmail threats to exhort renovations money to Astrodome or else he'd leave via Jacksonville, Birmingham, Ala., or Memphis or Nashville, TN.
As a Saints fan but also as a huge NFL fan, Frank Reich never was a great starting NFL QB, never made a Pro Bowl as a starter, but in terms of his accomplishments as a person, his perseverance and commitment to playing hard, competing, learning and analyzing this game we love all so much, not just as a player, but as a SB-winning OC with Eagles in 2017, and now a successful HC with the Colts, he's been an overwhelmingly success as a human being and we as Saints fans and causal observers are far more richer for it.I remember the "Comeback" game I was at a friends for a cook out/party with the game on. We lost interest in the game assuming a blow loss for the Bills. When the Bills started scoring I was still kind of checking on the game and paying more attention. When it got close I pointed out to the others what was happening and then we all started watching in amazement and actually cheering the Bills on. We were all Saints fans and really had no interest in either team but you just had to root on the Bills during that comeback. I later learned that this wasn't the first time the Reich had come into a game as the back-up QB. In 84 he led a comeback against the Hurricanes. He took over at the half down 31-0 and won the game with passing TD's including a 68 yard game winner. They out scored Miami 42-9 in the second half!
Frank Reich - Wikipedia
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Correct it is a numbers game the number is 5. The rest of the numbers dont matter. HoF QBs arent judged based on some set of uniform numbers, they are judged the same way all the other positions including coaches are judged...you can only take the best 5. All positions (including coaches) are lumped together and you can only take 5.
Frank Reich had the distinction of being the QB for both the NFL and NCAA div 1 comeback records. In1984, he guided Maryland to a 42-40 win, coming back from a 31-0 halftime deficit at Miami. A buddy of mine played on that Terps team as well. Ted said the team was in the locker room at halftime and no one was down. "The mentality was that we were bigger stronger faster and meaner, and there was no way we were going to lose to the low-class, cheap shot, trash-talking Miami Hurricanes" Ted said the only Hurricane with any class at all, coaches included, was Bernie Kosar.
You got the first four right. But Jared Allen is way too high and certainly not in the same league as Boselli.
His father is elgible.
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