anyone who says elway > young or elway>marino doesnt know what theyre talking about, sorry.
Elway's a bit overrated, but let's not get carried away here. His TD-INT ratio and stats all around dramatically improved in 93 when Shanahan took over (I think that was the year).
Yeah he put up wack numbers up until that point but let's not look at them devoid of context. QB numbers across the board were considerably lower before everyone got a west coast offense in the 90's and he was playing Dan Reeves dinosaur ass offense until 93. And his weapons were shyt (please don't bring up the 3 amigos, 3 average receivers that never made even made Pro Bowls that somehow got a nickname).
He's difficult to gauge because he had bad stats for the first part of his career, but he did take unimpressive teams to 3 Super Bowls during that period with clutch playoff performances and he won two later when he had a beast of a team.
And he did NOT have dominant defenses in the 80's...not even close. In 86 they ranked 15...bottom half of the league. In 87 they were 7th.
If you want to say Elway is overrated cool, but to act like he was some kind of nobody who got carried by great teams is ludicrous, as is saying anybody who puts him ahead of Steve Young doesn't know what they're talking about, unless we have some kind of reality-altering machine that can show us how Elway would've played in the 49ers in the 90's and how Steve Young would've played in Dan Reeves system in the 80's.
