NFL Week 17--The Harold Carmichael Edition

Waller had 90 catches for 1,145 yards. How much more open would you like him to get?

 

To the Staubach nod... I guess if you had to put a 70s QB in, Staubach, Bradshaw, Tarkington and Stabler are your guys.

If you looked at the regular season numbers, it’s Staubach, playing in a dome in Texas.

If you look at the post seasons at all, it has to be Bradshaw. He made two of the most iconic throws in the 70s that took the number from 2 to 4 in Pittsburgh. Swann got the MVP for 10, but Bradshaw’s throw to seal the game was from snap to finish as perfect as quarterbacking gets.

All four of those guys played on beast teams. Only one won 40% of the Super Bowls for that decade.

And there is the better receivers argument... Swann and Stallworth don’t sniff Canton at all if Craig Morton or Joe Furgeson or Billy Kilmer is throwing them the ball.

 

1. Texas Stadium was not a dome. Open at the top. Remember the weird shadows in day games?
2. Staubach was indeed a better QB than Bradshaw. The "won more titles" argument is crap. Teams win titles.

 

Hated watching sunny games at Texas Stadium. TV cameras could never handle the contrast between dark and light with those shadows.

 

But the Raiders, Cowboys, Steelers and Vikings were all loaded.
Shit, so were the Oilers and Redskins at points in the decade.

Steelers win 4 because of the way Bradshaw performed in the playoffs.

 

OK, but Staubach did not have weather come into play as much as Bradshaw and Tarkington did.

 

Pictures of empty stadiums have always fascinated me.
Just the enormity of everything.
I had a picture of me at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Just me and a shit ton of empty red seats.
It looks different on television, but you can't imagine how big that place is.

 

No. Steelers won because of how everyone on team performed in the playoffs. This is so basic.

 

Now I could go along with this if Bradshaw played poorly in Super Bowls, but he didn’t. He was the MVP of two and was damn close to being the MVP of three.

The only throw people remember Staubach making in the SB is a wobbly, low ball to a wide open Smith.

 

Thought the same thing.

 

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