It can come and go at any moment.įor+real? 6. The next year, he got hurt and missed half the season, and by 2004, he was retired. The Raiders signed him, and at 34, he became an elite quarterback, culminating in his 2002 year when he led the league in completions, attempts, and yards, all while leading the Raiders to the Super Bowl.
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Rich Gannon (Madden '04, Oakland) Rating: 97 (Rank: 2) Other Years: Madden '02 (92, T4) Madden '03 (91, 6) Madden '05 (89, T11) Think that some guys aren't dependent on those around them? Gannon nearly washed out of the league after three poor seasons as the Vikings starter at the beginning of the nineties, spent a decade as a backup, and then won the Kansas City job for good in 1999 and made the Pro Bowl. It took him a while to get respect, but he ended up as one of the videogame's best quarterbacks halfway through this decade. Steve McNair (Madden '05, Tennessee) Rating: 96 (Rank: 2) Other Years: Madden '01 (87, T5) Madden '03 (83, T11) Madden '04 (93, T5) Madden '06 (89, T8) The recently-retired former Alcorn State quarterback assuredly turned injuries off when he played Madden - he got enough of them in a career that was constantly marred by McNair's bruises and his admirable ability to ignore them and suit up. Moon had one more big year in him before breaking his collarbone in 1996, which ended his Vikings career and sent him to the second-division Seahawks for two years before finishing up as a backup in Kansas City.Īh,+the+days+of+NFL+Icons. He made the Pro Bowl and threw for nearly 4300 yards, which was enough to overcome a 18:19 touchdown-to-interception ratio. Warren Moon (Madden '96, Minnesota) Rating: 84 (Rank: 3) Other Years: Madden '95 (76, T5) Moon's first year in Minnesota was a doozy. He proceeded to stagnate and even decline before a fluke season in Denver the year before he retired.
His role in leading the '98 Cardinals to the playoffs and a shocking victory at Dallas made The Snake look like a future star, albeit one with more interceptions (20) on the season than touchdowns (17). Jake Plummer (Madden 2000, Arizona) Rating: 89 (Rank: 4) Other Years: Madden '01 (82, T13) Plummer would only get one year of significant respect in Madden, but he made the most of it. Plummer+drops+back,+surveys+the+field+for+defenders+to+throw+to. He had weapons surrounding him, but that's just filthy. His completion percentage that year? Oh, only 69.1%. It makes sense - the rating is based on the 1993 season, the year the Cowboys won their second championship. Troy Aikman (Madden '95, Dallas) Rating: 79 (Rank: 3) Other Years: Madden '96 (77, T7) Madden 2000 (83, T10) Madden '01 (88, 4) Again, although Aikman's rating was way higher in 2001, relatively, his 1995 rating is more impressive. We gave Hasselbeck the nod in a close battle because of his multiple appearances in the game as an excellent quarterback. Note that while his rating is 16 points higher than Montana in their best seasons, Montana's rank is actually higher than Hasselbeck because, well, it's all relative and the rating system changes over time. Matt Hasselbeck ( Madden '07, Seattle) Rating: 93 (Rank: 5) Other Years: Madden '05 (90, T9) Madden '08 (92, 8) Hasselbeck's a player who we think the Madden rating gods haven't looked particularly kindly upon all the guy's done is make three Pro Bowls and lead his team to multiple playoff appearances, all without the benefit of hair. We'll detail each quarterback's rating in their best season, as well as other prominent Madden performances.Ģ1. Since a list of every Brett Favre and Peyton Manning iteration would be no fun, we're picking the best season (by rank) for each quarterback, but only giving each quarterback one spot on the list. (Of course, remember that not all versions of Madden actually had player ratings, so some versions are left out.) We contrasted and compared, played some games to remind us of how good each one was, and then created a list of the Top 25 quarterbacks in Madden History. Turning our revulsion into appreciation, we've gone Madden-by-Madden and recorded the ratings and ranks for each quarterback, analyzing who's the best and by how much. To try and find some quarterbacks who will get our back, we're going in a different direction today.
Alas, Wally Richardson and company now likely will beat us up if they ever recognize us in public.
Last week, we went through the annals of Madden history and found the 10 Worst Quarterbacks in Madden History, a list that no quarterback would ever want to find himself on.
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