{"id":171432,"date":"2021-02-05T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T08:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/super-bowl-quarterback-matchups-best-to-worst\/"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T08:29:35","slug":"super-bowl-quarterback-matchups-best-to-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/super-bowl-quarterback-matchups-best-to-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"#Super Bowl quarterback matchups: Best to worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Super Bowl quarterback matchups: Best to worst<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Mahomes.Brady_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>We have witnessed LIV Super Bowl quarterback matchups where one of them was the best in the league. <\/p>\n<p>But never has the best in the league faced a GOAT, much less a 43-year-old GOAT, with six rings, still playing at an elite level.<\/p>\n<p>After first giving the nod to the Joe Montana-John Elway battle, now Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes ranks No. 1 on Serby\u2019s Super Bowl quarterback matchup rankings. <\/p>\n<p>The list of 1-55 is based more on what the quarterbacks had accomplished at the time they met:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes, Super Bowl LV:<\/strong> Getcha popcorn ready.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terry Bradshaw vs. Roger Staubach II, Super Bowl XIII:<\/strong> Bradshaw (4 TDs) captured his third Lombardi Trophy with a 35-31 win that kept Captain America (3 TDs) from winning his third.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Montana vs. John Elway, Super Bowl XXIV:<\/strong> Joe Cool (5 TDs) tied Bradshaw with his fourth Super Bowl crown while Elway (18 TDs, 18 INTs in regular season) fell to 0-3 with two interceptions and a fumble. No one expected 55-10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning II, Super Bowl XLVI:<\/strong> Another clutch last-minute drive and another Super Bowl MVP for Lil\u2019 Brother to deny Brady his fourth championship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terry Bradshaw vs. Roger Staubach I, Super Bowl X:<\/strong> Bradshaw (2 TDs) had won Super Bowl IX and Captain America (3 INTs) was left stuck on his Super Bowl VI triumph.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Montana vs. Dan Marino:<\/strong> Super Bowl XIX: Marino was the first QB to throw for over 5,000 yards in only his second season, but Montana (3 TDs) out-dueled him for his second Super Bowl crown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Elway vs. Brett Favre, Super Bowl XXXII:<\/strong> Elway was the sentimental favorite after three previous Super Bowl defeats and denied Favre a repeat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peyton Manning vs. Drew Brees, Super Bowl XLIV:<\/strong> Brees (122 TDs against 55 INTs in four years with Sean Payton) denied Manning his second championship and wins his one and only crown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bart Starr vs. Len Dawson, Super Bowl I:<\/strong> Vince Lombardi\u2019s Ice Bowl survivor upheld the honor of the NFL against Dawson (26 TDs, 10 INTs) and the AFL upstarts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Russell Wilson, Super Bowl XLIX:<\/strong> Malcolm Butler\u2019s end-zone INT cost Wilson a repeat as four-time champ Brady won for the first time in a decade.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning I, Super Bowl XLII:<\/strong> Brady (50 TDs, 8 INTs) was a 14-point favorite to win his fourth Super Bowl crown and complete a perfect season, but Super Bowl MVP Manning had other ideas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Matt Ryan, Super Bowl LI:<\/strong> Matty Ice was league MVP and QB of the highest-scoring offense, but he lost a 28-3 third-quarter lead as Brady won his fourth Super Bowl in overtime.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Troy Aikman vs. Jim Kelly II, Super Bowl XXVIII:<\/strong> Emmitt Smith carried Aikman to his back-to-back wins over poor Kelly (0-4 on Super Sunday).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peyton Manning vs. Cam Newton, Super Bowl 50:<\/strong> Manning won his second Super Bowl largely because Von Miller and Demarcus Ware hounded the NFL MVP (6 sacks) in his first and only Super Bowl.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Montana vs. Boomer Esiason, Super Bowl XXIII:<\/strong> Esiason won league MVP honors, but Montana (3 TDs) won his third championship in the last minute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ben Roethlisberger vs. Kurt Warner, Super Bowl XLIII:<\/strong> A clash of one-time Super Bowl champs won by Big Ben\u2019s last-minute TD pass to a toe-t<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing Santonio Holmes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Donovan McNabb, Super Bowl XXXIX:<\/strong> McNabb (31 TDs, 8 INTs) was a regular-season sensation, but three picks gave Brady his third championship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peyton Manning vs. Russell Wilson, Super Bowl XLVIII:<\/strong> Wilson in his second season (26 TDs, 9 INTs) as starter out-dueled a jittery Manning (2 INTs, 1 fumble), who fell to 1-2 on Super Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aaron Rodgers vs. Ben Roethlisberger, Super Bowl XLV:<\/strong> Super Bowl MVP A-Rod, in his second season as starter (30 TDs, 7 INTs), denied Big Ben his third crown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bart Starr vs. Daryle Lamonica, Super Bowl II:<\/strong> Lombardi\u2019s defense defused The Mad Bomber (13-1 with 30 TDs), and Starr won back-to-back championships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Griese vs. Fran Tarkenton, Super Bowl VIII:<\/strong> Don Shula\u2019s poised <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> manager (seven completions) defended the perfect 17-0 championship season and spoiled Scramblin\u2019 Fran\u2019s return to the Vikings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Troy Aikman vs. Jim Kelly I, Super Bowl XXVII:<\/strong> Super Bowl MVP Aikman\u2019s first of three championships and Kelly\u2019s third of four championship losses in four tries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Jared Goff, Super Bowl LIII:<\/strong> Goff (32 TDs, 12 INTs) saw more ghosts against Bill Belichick than Sam Darnold did. The Joy of Six for Brady.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terry Bradshaw vs. Fran Tarkenton, Super Bowl IX:<\/strong> The first of Bradshaw\u2019s four championships, and the second of Tarkenton\u2019s three losses in four years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Staubach vs. Bob Griese, Super Bowl VI:<\/strong> They adorned the cover of Time Magazine in the lead-up. Super Bowl MVP Captain Comeback won his first title.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Kurt Warner, Super Bowl XXXVI:<\/strong> The Dynasty began when the 24-year-old Brady coolly led a last-minute FG drive to shock The Greatest Show on Turf.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Montana vs. Ken Anderson, Super Bowl XVI:<\/strong> Anderson, 1981 NFL MVP (29 TDs, 10 INTs), threw for 300 yards but a pair of INTs as Super Bowl MVP Montana won his first crown at age 25.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ken Stabler vs. Fran Tarkenton, Super Bowl XI:<\/strong> The Snake, 41-9-1 as Raiders starter, rode a 266-yard ground assault to leave Tarkenton with an 0-3 record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Mahomes vs. Jimmy Garoppolo, Super Bowl LIV:<\/strong> Mahomes met the moment in the fourth quarter for his crown. Jimmy GQ (27 TDs, 13 INTs) did not.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Troy Aikman vs. Neil O\u2019Donnell, Super Bowl XXX:<\/strong> O\u2019Donnell (17 TDs, 7 INT) was intercepted twice by MVP Larry Brown and Aikman had his third Super Bowl ring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brett Favre vs. Drew Bledsoe, Super Bowl XXXI:<\/strong> Favre\u2019s 39 TDs marked his third 30-plus TD season and Bill Parcells couldn\u2019t deny him his first championship with his QB (27 TDs, 15 INTs) throwing four picks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Elway vs. Phil Simms, Super Bowl XXI:<\/strong> The Other Quarterback had the game of his life in Pasadena for his first and only crown and Elway\u2019s first loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Flacco vs. Colin Kaepernick, Super Bowl XLVII:<\/strong> Flacco (102:56 TD:INT ratio over his first five seasons) weathered Kaepernick\u2019s arm and legs with three TDs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kurt Warner vs. Steve McNair, Super Bowl XXXIV:<\/strong> SB MVP Warner won NFL MVP for his one and only title as a young Air McNair (12 TDs, 8 INTs) came up 1 yard short of overtime.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Plunkett vs. Joe Theismann, Super Bowl XVIII:<\/strong> Marcus Allen\u2019s 191-yard, two-TD explosion and Theismann\u2019s pair of INTs helped Plunkett to his second championship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ben Roethlisberger vs. Matt Hasselbeck, Super Bowl XL:<\/strong> Young Big Ben was brutal (9-21, 123 yards, 1 rushing TD, 2 INTs), but a 181-yard Steelers rushing attack wasted a career year from Hasselbeck (24 TDs, 9 INTs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Plunkett vs. Ron Jaworski, Super Bowl XV:<\/strong> Al Davis rode his journeyman\u2019s MVP performance (3 TDs) over The Polish Rifle, the UPI NFL Player of Year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Elway vs. Doug Williams, Super Bowl XXII:<\/strong> Historic because Super Bowl MVP Williams started (and lost) two games in the regular season before he became the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl (4 TDs) as Elway threw three INTs and dropped to 0-2 on Super Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Namath vs. Earl Morrall, Super Bowl III:<\/strong> Although he is arguably the best backup QB in NFL history, nobody ever called him Broadway Earl. Guarantee it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Nick Foles, Super Bowl LII:<\/strong> Brady eyed his sixth championship, but never counted on Philly Special (5 TDs, 2 INTs after replacing Carson Wentz).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Kelly vs. Jeff Hostetler, Super Bowl XXV:<\/strong> The K-Gunslinger couldn\u2019t overcome Phil Simms\u2019 backup (3 TDs, 1 INT in two regular-season starts) because he had the ball for only 19:27 in his first and Wide Right SB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Len Dawson vs. Joe Kapp, Super Bowl IV:<\/strong> Kapp (19 TDs, 13 INTs) was a tough-guy former CFL quarterback who threw wobbly passes and was kayoed (shoulder) as an efficient Dawson led an upset win for the AFL and his first Lombardi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady vs. Jake Delhomme, Super Bowl XXXVIII:<\/strong> The scrappy undrafted Panthers QB (19 TDs, 16 INTs) and former NFL Europe afterthought never backed down with three TD passes before Brady\u2019s last-minute FG drive earned him his second championship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Elway vs. Chris Chandler, Super Bowl XXXIII:<\/strong> Elway rides off into the sunset with a back-to-back against a journeyman who enjoyed a career year (25 TDs, 12 INTs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnny Unitas vs. Craig Morton, Super Bowl V:<\/strong> The Great Johnny U was 12 years removed from The Greatest Game Ever Played and was knocked out of the game in favor of Morrall, who won thanks to Morton\u2019s three INTs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Kelly vs. Mark Rypien, Super Bowl XXVI:<\/strong> Kelly\u2019s second of four Super Bowl losses to a QB who enjoyed a career year (28 TDs, 11 INT) for Joe Gibbs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Staubach vs. Craig Morton, Super Bowl XII:<\/strong> Rodger The Dodger coasted to his second championship past his faded former teammate (4-15, 4 INTs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kerry Collins vs. Trent Dilfer, Super Bowl XXXV:<\/strong> Dilfer started only eight games, but his ravenous Ravens defense intercepted Collins, in his second season as starter, four times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim McMahon vs. Tony Eason, Super Bowl XX:<\/strong> The free spirit could Super Bowl Shuffle \u2014 he didn\u2019t have to play against the \u201985 Bears defense. Young Eason (11 TDs, 17 INTs) did.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Theismann vs. David Woodley, Super Bowl XVII:<\/strong> NFL MVP used John Riggins\u2019 166 rushing yards to beat youngest (24) QB (5 TDs against 8 INTs during strike-shortened season) to start the game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brad Johnson vs. Rich Gannon, Super Bowl XXXVII:<\/strong> Johnson wins The Battle of Journeymen for the Jon Gruden Bucs as Gannon tosses five INTs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terry Bradshaw vs. Vince Ferragamo, Super Bowl XIV:<\/strong> A mismatch with Bradshaw capturing his fourth championship against a quarterback with seven career starts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Griese vs. Billy Kilmer, Super Bowl VII:<\/strong> Griese needs only eight completions for Perfect Dolphins as journeyman Kilmer throws three INTs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Young vs. Stan Humphries, Super Bowl XXIX:<\/strong> Young rid his back of the Montana monkey with six TD passes against a QB with an 89:84 career TD:INT ratio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peyton Manning vs. Rex Grossman, Super Bowl XLI:<\/strong> Think Mike Tyson-Michael Spinks (20 INTs for Wrecks). 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