Neither Jeff george or Ryan Leaf threw the ball with the kind of accuracy Aikman did. And I understand sample size, I also understand how the QB rating is calculated.
He definitely was more accurate than Romo, and he did protect the ball better. Romo does not hit receivers in stride nearly as much as Aikman did.
This is such bullshit. You're telling me, you, the great dbair, believe that Aikman is more accurate than Romo, despite Romo being clearly superior in career completion percentage, just based on what you saw with your own eyes? That's not proof at all. And you're going to say he protected the ball better than Romo, again despite what the statistics say -- that Romo threw less interceptions? Those are some effective blinders you got on there dbair... I dare say more effective than the ones you usually have on.
Apparently they do, they are on the list. Again go look at it, and get back to me about the importance of "stats" when deciding what QB's are "great", which one's are "good" and which ones are mediocre. There's alot of guys in the top 25-30 who'd I'd class as mediocre to good at best.
First of all, there are more stats than just QB rating. In all of the pure QB stats, Romo is better than Aikman. All of them.
Secondly, if you just want to look at QB rating let's go ahead. You apparently want to throw it out just because Shaun Hill is rated above Aikman. Shaun Hill doesn't have 1000 passing attempts, and I think 2000 attempts is generally used to qualify someone to be on the official QB ratings rankings list. I'm pretty sure it's 2000 because Rodgers just passed that mark and overtook Romo at the top of the list. It may be 1500. Whatever it is, Shaul Hill isn't there. So I'm throwing that anomaly out.
There's no doubt that the NFL is more of a passing era than it was in the 60s and 70s, so comparing any QB from that era by QB rating is going to be tough. It's more of a passing league now than it was in Aikman's era as well... but interestingly, there are still a handful of QBs from Aikman's era who are on the QB rating list ahead of Aikman. Young, Montana, Marino, Favre, Jim Kelly... 4 of the 5 are clearly better QBs (just simply speaking as QBs go, not by championships) than Aikman was. Kelly is arguable.
And, during Romo's era... where's it's an absolute level playing field, he's ahead of sure-fire HOFers Manning, Brady and Brees. So go ahead and tell me how QB Rating doesn't matter and Romo has thrown a couple of screen passes that were broken for 90 yard TDs which is why he's so high. Tell us again, so we can point and laugh.
