infantrycak
Hall of Fame
As far as Bradshaw and Testerverde. Bradshaw's 5th year is slightly before my time, but I think this is when he really began to turn it on. Since I don't have the hindsight of watching his play in 1975, I have no choice but to turn to some numbers and he threw 18td's to only 9 picks that year.
1975 was his sixth year and yes that is when things turned. I watched Bradshaw a bunch over the years. Dude was a gamer but far from the greatest QB ever. He was benched one or more times in his 1st 5 years. His judgment definitely got better but never great over his career but they also oh my god--put some talent around him--might be more than just a little coincidence that the 1974 draft netted Lynn Swan, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster--all in the hall of fame.
another prime example of a totally worthless stat. The game was different back then too. It was much more vertical and QB %'s were much lower than today's QBs till more of the Gillman/Walsh/Brown concepts took root in the modern passing game.
You have to actually watch a QB to see if he is any good. Stats don't translate like they do in baseball. A 350 hitter is what he is in baseball since its an individual match up. In football there are too many variables such as a billion 4 yard passes to pump up your stats.
What stat? Not a real appropriate time to pull out the anti-stat argument--none were referenced. Bradshaw got benched at least once and I believe more than that during that time frame. He was definitely a gamer but had very poor judgment to begin with. As for stats--there is no way you can spin 6 TD's and 24 INT's into a good thing in any era.