murksiderock
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Eli getting in soon, is gonna lower the bar for guys like Padford to get in, and it's gonna be a mistake...
Padford's prime overlapped with truly Top 10 of All-Time QBs: Brady, Brees, Manning, Rodgers. He wasn't even in the same stratosphere as the peaks of those guys...
Padford's late career with the Rams, is overlapping with the primes of Allen, Burrow, Jackson, and Mahomes. The very best version of Padford was not at the level of the best of any of these guys, and the current, still very good version of Padford, is still a notch or two below those guys...
His prime also overlapped with Eli, Luck, Newton, Palmer, Roethlisberger, Rivers, Ryan, Romo, Wilson. He fits somewhere in this class, sure. But how many guys in this group, would you, without hesitation, take over Padford? 5? 4?
So when you get past the 4 All-Time QBs of his early career, that he was never on their level. And the 4 All-Time QBs of his late career, who he isn't on their level. That's 8 guys right there. You easily get beyond 10 guys in his career, who were better players at their position than Stat Padford...
Hall Of Fame is an easy call to me. We're you an elite, Top 5 guy at your position. Ever? Were you a Top 5 guy during your career in totality? If the answer is no, that means there's too much wiggle room in your candidacy, you're not a Hall Of Famer!
You could extend the generosity and say Top 10 instead of Top 5, and he STILL isn't a definitive Top 10 player at his position, during his career...
Hall Of Very Good. He doesn't deserve a bust in Canton though. There were too many quarterbacks we've seen during his career who were just flat out better!
Padford's prime overlapped with truly Top 10 of All-Time QBs: Brady, Brees, Manning, Rodgers. He wasn't even in the same stratosphere as the peaks of those guys...
Padford's late career with the Rams, is overlapping with the primes of Allen, Burrow, Jackson, and Mahomes. The very best version of Padford was not at the level of the best of any of these guys, and the current, still very good version of Padford, is still a notch or two below those guys...
His prime also overlapped with Eli, Luck, Newton, Palmer, Roethlisberger, Rivers, Ryan, Romo, Wilson. He fits somewhere in this class, sure. But how many guys in this group, would you, without hesitation, take over Padford? 5? 4?
So when you get past the 4 All-Time QBs of his early career, that he was never on their level. And the 4 All-Time QBs of his late career, who he isn't on their level. That's 8 guys right there. You easily get beyond 10 guys in his career, who were better players at their position than Stat Padford...
Hall Of Fame is an easy call to me. We're you an elite, Top 5 guy at your position. Ever? Were you a Top 5 guy during your career in totality? If the answer is no, that means there's too much wiggle room in your candidacy, you're not a Hall Of Famer!
You could extend the generosity and say Top 10 instead of Top 5, and he STILL isn't a definitive Top 10 player at his position, during his career...
Hall Of Very Good. He doesn't deserve a bust in Canton though. There were too many quarterbacks we've seen during his career who were just flat out better!
