Favorite REDSKINS All-TIME QB

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:35 pm

Despite my well-documented affinity for Danny Wuerffel, I will definitely have to say Joe Montana.

The first pro football player I heard about was Joe. My friend back in elementary school likened my football throws to #16's completions to Rice. That peaked my interest in pro football. Since then, I've been hooked... to football.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:23 pm

I'm a Joey T guy. He wanted to play so badly that he begged to return kicks! He played with great guts - another career cut short by injury.

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:32 am

REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:Despite my well-documented affinity for Danny Wuerffel, I will definitely have to say Joe Montana.

The first pro football player I heard about was Joe. My friend back in elementary school likened my football throws to #16's completions to Rice. That peaked my interest in pro football. Since then, I've been hooked... to football.

That's not what your friend in elementary school said !
Man, you don't listen. What he said was, "Maybe you'll go to Montana and conduct weddings. Do they throw rice there ?"

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:11 am

:oops: Oh, TC, you know me SO well!! Chavienda!

genuswine hoglover · Post by **genuswine hoglover** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:28 pm

welch wrote:I never saw Sammy Baugh play, but my Dad talked about him as football's Walter Johnson. I voted for Baugh.

But of the QB's I've seen, and I've seen all the rest, it is Sonny Jurgenson. No one else is even close...Sonny first, second, and third.

Does anyone remember the Giants game in Sonny's last year when Kilmer hurt his ankle, we cheered because we knew that George Allen would have to put Sonny into the game. Sonny trotted/waddled/lumbered off the bench, losing by about 13 points with about 10 minuters left in the 4th Quarter.

Jurgenson did not miss a pass -- not a single incomplete for the rest of the game. All short and medium passes, all over the field, used every receiver. The Skins scored two TD's, preserving Allen's streak: he had never lost to the Giants since he came to the Redskins.

For emphasis: Sonny was 40 or 41 at the time, and people had been saying for five years that he could no longer throw the long pass. It didn't matter. The Giants tried everything...they blitzed, they played zones, the mixed, but they coukdn't defend a single pass, even though they knew that Sonny was going to throw.

Sonny all the way.

I am with you Welch. I have seen them all except Baugh and LeBaron. Not even close. Sonny was the best.

My father, who is in his mid 80's still talks about Sammy Baugh. But he still talks about Sonny too. (Come to think of it he still talks about Walter Johnson and a bunch of other stuff I can quite decipher.).

I saw that game against the Giants. Do you remember a couple weeks later he did the same thing against the Dolphins with a great comeback. That was the year they were coming off their second SB win. Good times.

genuswine hoglover · Post by **genuswine hoglover** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:28 pm

welch wrote:I never saw Sammy Baugh play, but my Dad talked about him as football's Walter Johnson. I voted for Baugh.

But of the QB's I've seen, and I've seen all the rest, it is Sonny Jurgenson. No one else is even close...Sonny first, second, and third.

Does anyone remember the Giants game in Sonny's last year when Kilmer hurt his ankle, we cheered because we knew that George Allen would have to put Sonny into the game. Sonny trotted/waddled/lumbered off the bench, losing by about 13 points with about 10 minuters left in the 4th Quarter.

Jurgenson did not miss a pass -- not a single incomplete for the rest of the game. All short and medium passes, all over the field, used every receiver. The Skins scored two TD's, preserving Allen's streak: he had never lost to the Giants since he came to the Redskins.

For emphasis: Sonny was 40 or 41 at the time, and people had been saying for five years that he could no longer throw the long pass. It didn't matter. The Giants tried everything...they blitzed, they played zones, the mixed, but they coukdn't defend a single pass, even though they knew that Sonny was going to throw.

Sonny all the way.

I am with you Welch. I have seen them all except Baugh and LeBaron. Not even close. Sonny was the best.

My father, who is in his mid 80's still talks about Sammy Baugh. But he still talks about Sonny too. (Come to think of it he still talks about Walter Johnson and a bunch of other stuff I can quite decipher.).

I saw that game against the Giants. Do you remember a couple weeks later he did the same thing against the Dolphins with a great comeback. That was the year they were coming off their second SB win. Good times.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:11 pm

Yes, I remember the Dolphins game. It left Joe Theisman speechless, according to the Post...

(Also that Mike Bass made an interception at the end of the Giants game. Bass was one of my favorite DB's, but that's for another poll...)

My Dad has told me stories about Sammy Baugh. One, that Baugh was once wrapped up by a defensive player, nothing free except his right arm, with which Baugh completed a 20 yard pass.

Another, that one day Baugh decided he had been hit too hard too often by a particlar rusher, so he unloaded a pass right square into the guy's face, breaking his nose, giving him two black eyes. (They didn't wear face-masks, remember.). Defenders backed off a little after that.

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:43 pm

I don't know why, but my favorite QB on the Redskins has always been Theismann.
Honestly, I cringed everytime I read a quote from #7. I guess it was because he was the QB during my first real era of being a fan.
No knock on the history guys, to be sure. I just like Joe.

skinsfan44 · Post by **skinsfan44** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:17 pm

Sonny Jurgensen.

I'm going to show my age here, but back in 1968 (when I was 8 years old when I first found out about football), I saw my first Redskin game with Sonny as the QB. The first play I remember seeing was Sonny throwing a pass to Jerry Smith for a TD.

After that, I was a Redskin fan for life, and have loved Sonny ever since.

I even seen video footage of Sonny throwing 20 and 30 yard passes from behind his back.

He had an amazing arm.

alwaysaskinner · Post by **alwaysaskinner** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:26 pm

SONNY!!!!!

In Carlisle, PA (where they used to have spring training) the fair used to come to town while the skins were there. the story went that they would leave the throwing games in the midway off of that stop. Seems an inebriated Sonny J stood at the football throw taking kids dollars, and throwing the ball for them. Supposedly wiped the booth out of toys....
Don't know if that's true, but, it does sound like his style. Dude was amazing on the field!!!

Redskin Don · Post by **Redskin Don** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:06 pm

He was good and consistently good over a lot of seasons when the Redskins really stunk it up big time... Plus he was a fat boy like myself... I always love it when the big boys light it up...

welch · Post by **welch** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:32 am

I even seen video footage of Sonny throwing 20 and 30 yard passes from behind his back.

I have that old, old memory of Sonny throwing behind his back. Even in a game against the Redskins. It's been so long that I can't tell if it's dream or what, but I think I heard him as Eagles QB complete a pass behind his back while a Redskin has sacking him. Note: there was no "in the grasp" rule back then. (Home game, therefore, in those days, not televised.)

I'm glad to see that someone else remembers, and even has proof that he could do such things.

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