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Elgses fans, who was your best QB since Jurgensen? How would you rank the them?

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Elgses fans, I would imagine your fine mayor of the 6th most populated city in the United States would know how to spell it better than me, so since your HOF QBs in Van Brocklin and Jurgensen, who was your best QB? Jaworski? Gabriel? Hurts? Vick? McNabb? Snead? Cunningham? Wentz? I have Gabriel pictured as that was my favorite Elgses helmet.




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You obviously missed PSU own Pete Liske
And for 12 games it might have been Carson Wentz
And for at least 1 season Nick Foles
BTW I hate those helmets. Eagles sucked in them
 
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saturdaysarebetter said:
Elgses fans, I would imagine your fine mayor of the 6th most populated city in the United States would know how to spell it better than me, so since your HOF QBs in Van Brocklin and Jurgensen, who was your best QB? Jaworski? Gabriel? Hurts? Vick? McNabb? Snead? Cunningham? Wentz? I have Gabriel pictured as that was my favorite Elgses helmet.




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Went to see the Redskins practice in Carlisle years ago when Jorgensen was the QB and Lombardi was the head coach. Saw Sonny throw a 30 yard pass behind his back and hit the receiver right in stride during a throwing drill. I couldn’t believe it. Not sure if there was ever a better pure thrower of the ball than Jorgensen.
 
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Bvillebaron said:
Went to see the Redskins practice in Carlisle years ago when Jorgensen was the QB and Lombardi was the head coach. Saw Sonny throw a 30 yard pass behind his back and hit the receiver right in stride during a throwing drill. I couldn’t believe it. Not sure if there was ever a better pure thrower of the ball than Jorgensen.
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My dad says Norm VanBrocklin.
 
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Was in Gitmo 1959 tied alongside the Dutch ship Von Amstel. We were showing old NFL films on the fantail. Highlights of Norm Van Brocklin. The Dutch sailors went crazy when they heard "the flying Dutchman". Good times.(y)
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My father was a Redskins fan and of course got familiar with Jurgensen while J was in Philly. (Dad worked at General Electric right smack dab north of the Palestra.) I asked him who had the best arm he’d seen and he was immediately Van Brocklin.

@IrishHerb once told me that he was at the old RFK Stadium watching the Giants play the Redskins and he turns away for a moment and then sees the ball way up there and asks himself “WTF? Why are the Giants punting?” Turns out it was Y A Tittle showing off his arm.
 
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Kordell Mcnabb was OVERRATED. Puking in the huddle in crunch time. He had a great OL, great running game, great defense, great special teams and the weakness was the passing game.
 
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saturdaysarebetter said:
Elgses fans, I would imagine your fine mayor of the 6th most populated city in the United States would know how to spell it better than me, so since your HOF QBs in Van Brocklin and Jurgensen, who was your best QB? Jaworski? Gabriel? Hurts? Vick? McNabb? Snead? Cunningham? Wentz? I have Gabriel pictured as that was my favorite Elgses helmet.




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You did not mention high draft pick Florida QB John Reaves! Wasn't in Philly for long.
Anyway, my list is : 1. McNabb , 2. Jaws , 3. Cunningham , 4. Hurts
Foles should be in there, somewhere, but, I went with those who played/started for 3 years or more.
 
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LionJim said:
My father was a Redskins fan and of course got familiar with Jurgensen while J was in Philly. (Dad worked at General Electric right smack dab north of the Palestra.) I asked him who had the best arm he’d seen and he was immediately Van Brocklin.

@IrishHerb once told me that he was at the old RFK Stadium watching the Giants play the Redskins and he turns away for a moment and then sees the ball way up there and asks himself “WTF? Why are the Giants punting?” Turns out it was Y A Tittle showing off his arm.
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Yep, got that right.

Talking about great QBs ... one interesting thing I learned was from Jim Podoley, who was an assistant coach at my school after he retired from the NFL, some QBs threw passes that were easy to catch, not only thrown accurately but the actual flight of the ball. He said one of the hardest for him to catch was Y A Tittle, said those high arcing passes he threw came down like bullets and were really hard on his hands.
 
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BrianS said:
You did not mention high draft pick Florida QB John Reaves! Wasn't in Philly for long.
Anyway, my list is : 1. McNabb , 2. Jaws , 3. Cunningham , 4. Hurts
Foles should be in there, somewhere, but, I went with those who played/started for 3 years or more.
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Isn't Reeves the father of Layla Kiffin? If so, he's independently my HOF.
 
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Been an Eagles fan since the Jaws days(10 years old from what I can recall), I think the overall best QB since then is Randall Cunningham. Incredible athlete, made them more successful then they would have been with an avg/mediocre QB. Unfortunately he didn't have a good supporting cast around him on offense and Breman was a douche bag of an owner. Defense was awesome, but if had the OLine and supporting cast of today that hurts has I would think multiple super bowls in the 90s. I enjoyed Buddy Ryan as a coach but more defense minded coach and seemed to neglect the offense. McNabb was good in Andy Reids offense and had a better supporting cast but he never struck me to be as good as Cunningham. Foles was the right guy at the right time in the right system and won us a superbowl which needs to account for something but overall body of work I am sticking with Cunningham in the period 1977 to the present. (Comparing Cunningham to Hurts, Cunningham would get out of some of the sacks Hurts takes or would throw the ball away).
 
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Been an Eagles fan since the Jaws days(10 years old from what I can recall), I think the overall best QB since then is Randall Cunningham. Incredible athlete, made them more successful then they would have been with an avg/mediocre QB. Unfortunately he didn't have a good supporting cast around him on offense and Breman was a douche bag of an owner. Defense was awesome, but if had the OLine and supporting cast of today that hurts has I would think multiple super bowls in the 90s. I enjoyed Buddy Ryan as a coach but more defense minded coach and seemed to neglect the offense. McNabb was good in Andy Reids offense and had a better supporting cast but he never struck me to be as good as Cunningham. Foles was the right guy at the right time in the right system and won us a superbowl which needs to account for something but overall body of work I am sticking with Cunningham in the period 1977 to the present. (Comparing Cunningham to Hurts, Cunningham would get out of some of the sacks Hurts takes or would throw the ball away).
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no doubt Randall was talented. My problem with him is, he didnt put the work in. He didnt study the game, he just went out and did stuff. Well the game is beyond that, then and now. so When Randall got to the big game, he couldnt get them over the hump.
 
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