5 WORST Starting Quarterbacks To Win A Super Bowl...And The 5 BEST That Never Did 

Joe Flacco is getting too much hate, he may not have been the best QB of his era or anything but he lead his team to playoffs for 6 years and lead them to an incredible Super Bowl run. he also posted better stats than many HOF within the playoffs . Someone that should be here instead of Flacco is Nick foles. He could not maintain a starting QB job.

If there would be a 6th spot for "Best that never won", I would give it to another Chargers QB. That would be Philip Rivers. He had a pretty good passing career as well. Also, kudos to these guys for getting Warren Moon on the "Best to never win" list. This guy put up some amazing stats for only being in the NFL later in his career (he started in the CFL). Super strong arm and a nice tight spiral. Yeah, he played for a team that used the run and shoot offense for a lot of his NFL career (this has a tendency to inflate stats), but, who cares, credit is due for a great player who never made it to the SB.

Calls Tark a pocket passer, shows him being mobile 💀

Let’s not forget, that 02 TB team also had the good fortune to have Oakland’s former HC, whom knew their whole playbook going into that Super Bowl.

Marino, Moon, Fouts, Tarkenton and Kell y Yeah, that's 5 legends that all should have won at least one ring.

George Blanda. He was an AFL Champion 3 times but never won a Super Bowl. Blanda is in my top 3 favorites of all time. Great video 👍

Here's a name, Ken Anderson...amazing qb lost his only SB appearance to Joe Montana and the 49ers.

Bs Flacco had a historic playoff run no way in hell he’s “worst to win”

Honorable mention Phillip Rivers and Steve McNair two greats who never won the super bowl

Surprised you didn't name The Ultimate Weapon Randall Cunningham, especially since Fran Tarkenton was the prototype for him. If Randall Cunningham put more effort into his game he'd easily be a top 5 QB all-time, maybe even the GOAT at any NFL position.

I remember the media comparing Joe Flacco and Matt Ryan, two quarterbacks that were drafted in the first round of 2008. The perspective of Joe Flacco is different then than it is now. Let’s be honest, the majority of negative thoughts towards Joe Flacco occurred after the failure in Denver. Joe Flacco‘s regular season record was 54-26 leading up to Super Bowl 47, and that SB victory was his 9th postseason win. Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes took six years to win nine playoff games. Joe Flacco did it in five. After signing a huge blockbuster deal, Joe Flacco would have one more postseason appearance in 2015 when the Ravens beat the Steelers, but lost to the Patriots in the divisional round. It was all downhill from there, and for some reason, what Joe Flacco has done following his Super Bowl win has encapsulated his entire career.

Jim Plunkett was 72-72 as a starter. He completed 52.5 percent of his passes with 164 touchdowns and 198 interceptions, but won two Super Bowls without being the game one starter in either season.

Flacco's throw to Jacoby is one of the best throws of all time based on when the throw happened (down 7 in final minutes on other side of field). And he was torching a strong 49ers D until lights went out. Winning on the road against the likes of Brady, Manning and Ben makes him underrated

Joe Burrow recently said he wants to be in Cincinnati his whole career. Glad to know he's committed to being on some future version of this video in the "Best to never..." category. 😁

Honorable mention that never won: Ken Anderson He was the first NFL QB to successfully run a pass-heavy offense under Bill Walsh (who would go on to lead the 49ers to 4 SB titles in the 80's), led the league in passer rating 4x, led the league in yards 2x, led the league in Completions 3x, was a 4x Pro Bowler, all-pro selection twice, and league MVP in 1981. He got the Bengals to Super Bowl 16 (his only appearance) but fell just short to Joe Montana. Had he won that game (or not been hurt so often) I have no doubt he would be considered a legend.

Joe Flacco was a great game manager and doesn't deserve to be in the worst to win a SB conversation. Besides, the guy was a good playoff QB and won some road playoff games as well. He didn't lit the league on fire or anything else, but he knew how to win

Joe Flacco is one of the most underrated quarterbacks of all time he constantly gets hate but as a Ravens fan Baltimore misses Joe and his cannon arm

Thanks for preparing and posting this! I wonder who would appear on a list of the 5 worst QBs to play in a Superbowl (regardless of whether they won or lost the big game). Rex Grossman of the Chicago Bears would certainly be one of them.

Keep up your fantastic videos, God bless you

For Trent Dilfer, he chose not to resign but the ravens did give him a offer to keep him in 2001

Jim Kelly was the opposite of Flacco. He was the man in the regular season (surrounded by an incredible team), but never really played that well/consistently in the playoffs. He was usually playing hurt in January, but then again, so is everyone

Joe Namath has more career interceptions than TD's. He also somehow was named MVP of his Super Bowl without throwing a TD pass in the game.

The 2000 Ravens switched quarterbacks and the offenses still didn’t improve. Brian Billick would have been better off sticking with Tony Banks, who I think had an amazing arm.

We took a time travel to 2013 when everyone was bashing on Flacco for getting a contract that made him the highest paid player for a brief few months. Joe Performed great in the regular season before he won that Super Bowl in the Big Easy and was awesome in the playoffs. His seasons after that in Baltimore were not as successful but he still was putting in career highs. Worse QBs would be the pairs from Washington ( Doug Williams, Mark Rypien) and the Raiders ( Jim Plunkett, Ken Stabler) that won.

It is crazy how life goes on and everything evolves… so it’s still an amazing accomplishment to win a Super Bowl, that basically catapults you above the rest… but this day and age winning just one Super Bowl is like, “uh, ok but you only won one SB”… In the current NFL, and from here on out winning ONE(1) Super Bowl doesn’t cut it! You have to win two or three or more ….🎯

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Matt Ryan will be on this list in the future ---- that is as one of the 5 BEST that never did.

Where’s Phillip Rivers? He’s a great who never won a Super Bowl.

Joe Flacco was honestly pretty impressive for a couple of years there with the ravens, and this is coming from a Die-Hard Steelers fan.

Flacco should been in multiple superbowls if not for blown plays and missed field goals. Matt Ryan is constantly heralded as a much better version but lost while leading 28-3 and threw to Roddy white and Julio Jones most of his career. The Flacco slander has GOTTA stop lol

Love your video TPS

Warren moon was the tightest perfect spiral QB most of the time I’ve ever seen

Great Video

Great list.

Facts! I don't remember Flacco being talked about so bad until after he won a superbowl smh

Trent Dilfer really went in an interview and said Brady's achievements aren't impressive because of "how the game has changed" as if Brady didn't play at the same time as Dilfer lol

Archie Manning, Bernie Kosar, Ron Jaworski, Jim Hart. Goes to show how it truly is a team game.

Chad Henne is now retired with two Superbowl rings. It's good to be Mahomes' backup.

I'm from Dallas but live in Houston and I can say that over 20 years later, we Texans lament that Texas Bowl in 92 that could have been!

Troy Aikman. Dude was stacked with talent around him. Any halfway decent QB would have thrived in that system. Put him on a team that wasn't filled with all star talent and he would have sucked.

honorable mention for best qbs to never win a Superbowl Philip Rivers

Surprised not to see Doug Williams on this list. I was under the impression that he had an underwhelming career outside of that one Super Bowl win over Denver.

That year Jeff Hostetler played great in the playoffs & the Superbowl . His lifetime stats weren't great but that year when Simms went down he carried us. Just shows that statistically you're right but in reality you don't know what you are talking about.

I know it was a different era and stats from back then don't really compare,but Joe Namath was an average quarterback at his best , his career completion percentage was barely above 50% ,he threw more interceptions than touchdowns and in the Super Bowl he won, he didn't really have a good game(he threw for 208 yards with no touchdowns, but still won MVP)

Steve McNair. Two legendary Titans teams and a Ravens team he led to a (then) team record 13-3 season. But after the super bowl run he had a tough time winning in the post season.

I luv the fact that you're showing luv to Warren moon one of the greatest ever with some of the worst luck it really makes up for the fact that you didn't make Eli Manning the worst to win two

Phillip Rivers needs an honorable mention here

Love the video still wish Dan the man got his ring

These are all great choices although I don't know if I'd say Joe flacco belongs on the list of worst to have won the Super bowl though. I do think Philip Rivers and Tony Romo would be great quarterbacks to put on the list of best that didn't win. It's been years since I've watched a TPS video and it looks like it's done differently. Haven't heard this narrator before but he sounds good, and the editing style looks different in a good way

Great one, Sonny Jorgensen.

I will not tolerate Joe Flacco slander! His SB run was one for the ages

Fun fact: Trent Dilfer was undefeated as a starter for the Ravens that season. He salvaged the season for the Ravens, as Tony Banks led the Offense to a 4-4 record at mid season. He damned near pissed away the season despite having one of the greatest defenses ever to step on a field

I know this is going to sound weird coming from an Eagles fan, but the only change I would make to your list is that I would drop Joe Flacco, and in his place, I would add Nick Foles. Yes, Foles could pull a few tricks out of his hat, but there's a reason that he ended up as the backup quarterback on most team for which he played.

No way I'd put McMahon on the worst to win. His stats weren't great, but his leadership and charisma were. I think you nailed the greatest not win.

Tarkenton "...one of the first true great pocket passers"? Seriously? I think you meant he was the first scrambling quarterback. The coach of the Vikes, Norm Van Brocklin and a great pocket passer, feuded with Tarkenton. That feud led to Bud Grant being hired, Tarkenton being traded for a ton of high draft picks, building the foundation of the four Super Bowl teams. Tarkenton rejoined the Vikings and was on three of their Super Bowl teams.

Dan Marino is no 1 on best that never did

So this whole list is basically saying that it’s a team game.

I think Phillip Rivers and Matt Ryan are at least honorable mentions

In 1999 there was trade rumors that Dan Marino was gonna go to the Minnesota Vikings and that would’ve been something special with Randy Moss and Chris Carter and Robert Smith i think Dan Marino would of been the missing piece to get to the Super Bowl and maybe win it

Feel good that you brought up Marino. It's like what am I crazy? He was the best. Hate to think it all comes down to a ring. This is a right on segment. Can't wait to see if some others, even my own guys, mediocre, but got the ring. Yup, you got him, Hostetler. I am amazed. You even got Fouts. I seen him in a shootout with Montana. They both were high yardage and Dan was over 400 yds. San Fran won. Joe threw for 360 yds, abouts.

Good Show.

Dan Marino is the epitome of football is a team sport.

Johnson only won 1 Super Bowl as a starter. Also he wasn’t bad the season they won the Super Bowl and had a very high quarterback rating.

Kosar is one of the best that never won a Superbowl.

I'm so grateful that Fran Tarkenton made 'the list'. He was the first quarterback I really liked to watch play the game.

Moreno had the Michael Jordan effect he played against Joe Montana and countless other good quarterbacks and great teams that were better offenses than the dolphins defense Yes Dan carved everybody up but if the defense can't stop nothing and don't make a difference remember Dan was sitting records in his 30-year while somebody's guys that takes all these years to do it so it's just one of those things that happened he had the effect of he had to play against teams that destroyed the defense

As a Lions fan, I had a lot of love for Matt Stafford and was happy as hell when he won, keeping him off any of these future list. I can only think of any of the Marino's, Kelly's Etc being given the opportunity to go to better teams and win their Superbowls. Like, Marino on the 1992 Lions with Barry Sanders for instance, or the Late 80s Bears? That would be a fun hypothetical game to play.

Flacco was rewarded with a great defense

1 thing that seems to reoccur is that a lot if not all the “worst” QB’s to ever win, had a all star cast supporting them!!!

Another one is Mark Rypien. He was good, but not great… still has a SB ring

Worst to Win: Jim Plunkett -Career TD-INT Ratio: 164-198, -Career Passer Rating: 67.5 -Won 2 Super Bowls with the Raiders Best That Never Won: Randall Cunningham -Career TD-INT Ratio: 207-134 -Career Passer Rating: 81.5 -Career Rushing TDs: 35 -Never played in, or even won, a Super Bowl (Closest he came to the Super Bowl was in 1998 with the Minnesota Vikings, who lost to the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship Game)

Marino is the best that never won hands down. Possibly the greatest qb talent we've ever seen he was putting up all time great stats by modern day standards in 1984

Can u do mock draft 3.0

I dont care what anybody says. Tony romo not winning a supebowl is a travesty. He was a damn good qb that never got the team he needed

Nick Foles and Matt Ryan. Great vid.

7:37 he better thank God he did a FULL flip. That coulda been so much worse

Calling Flacco one of the worst QBs to ever win a Super Bowl is laughably stupid. Nick Foles, Doug Williams, Mark Rypien, Jim Plunkett, Joe Theismann, and Joe "I wanna kiss you now" Namath all need to be on the list well before Flacco.

Honorable mention to Danny White and Tony Romo.

Dilfer was actually a pretty good qb, he was held back early in his career in Tampa due to the ultra conservative Dungy style of football. He goes to Baltimore and with an offensive minded head coach and wins a super bowl. No coincidence there.

Nick foles ;-;

Did they change how to pronounce Jeff Hostetler's name?

What other Super Bowl did Brad Johnson win besides 02 with Tampa? Didn’t they say two super bowls in the video?

Flacco was a damn good QB. Not many threw a better deep ball

I was a Marino fan, in the eighties. He was a great passer.

Marino didn’t win because Shula got enamored with his arm and never put a running game and competent defense

I would replace Flacco with Mark Rypien .

Bob Griese needs to be on this list for multiple he was as the quarterback. They had a three headed monsters in the backfield and no name defense was lights out great.

I remember Dilfer bouncing a screen pass to a back in the SB. Unrushed. Un hurried. Back was wide open in the flat. Just horrible as a qb. Pretty good at hand-offs though. 👍👍

I would take McMahon off the list and replace him with Mark Rypien. Other than that, your list is on point. Drew Bledsoe deserves an honorable mention, but I can't pull someone off your list to replace him.

At the time Flacco won his ring, he was most certainly considered a very good QB. At that point he was 54-26 in the regular season and 9-4 post-season. It’s everything after that which has tarnished his resume.

As far as How did Jim Kelley not win a SB? How did his teams never win? Had some studs on that team. Just went up to a better team in the big dance. And thanks for mentioning Moon. As an Oiler fan since early 70s till they moved he was the funnest QB to watch. Don't think I missed a single game of his career here

I will always think Philip rivers is one of the best to never win a ring, he's near the top in almost all career stats, and he's like the only QB to not win a ring in that draft class but still finished higher than all the others in career stats

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Jim McMahon wasn’t a bad QB. He knew how to win. He was feared so much that he had a price on his head, body slammed and had his neck broken. The league freed him. Walter Peyton was in the thigh light of his career in 85. The defense was great but McMahon was it’s soul.

Tony Romo should be on the list of best QBs to never win. He holds numerous team and league records, multiple Pro Bowl nods, and always had the Cowboys contending for the division title or the playoffs. But he also had historically bad defenses that he had to constantly overcome. He led Dallas to over 30-35 points so many times yet Dallas lost those games because the defense gave up more and the blame fell to Romo. In fact, in 2012, Dallas had the worst defense in NFL history, yet Romo still had them contending for the division title at the end of the year. Plus in 2014, the league screwed Dallas against GB when they admitted that Dez Bryant had caught that ball and the refs got it wrong. Dallas, no doubt, would've beaten Seattle in the NFC championship game since they beat them earlier that year in Seattle and gone on to SB 49. I could list so many examples, but Romo never gets his due credit.

In Jim McMahon's defense, he played QB with a reckless linebacker mentality and didn't protect his body( and he more than often liked to party a bit too much for his own good)...If only he would have played it a bit more safe and taken better care of himself he could have been a little more than an above average QB...But, that just wasn't meant to be. I can say that as a diehard Bears fan, if the game was on the line and Da Bears needed a big play it always felt like Mad Mac, with his attitude, cockiness,and reckless abandon (he headbutted his linemen while they were wearing a helmet and his hard ass head was uncovered, hated to slide and would rather take on a LB or hard-hitting DB like Ronnie Lott and take the hits) had the ability to deliver that big play and pull one out when it was needed the most. It didn't always workout that way, but with him there was always the belief that 'we aren't done yet and until the clock has 00:00- we are still in it'.. The audacity to go at a LB or heavy hitting SS rather than slide or run out of bounds endeared him to Bear fans but definitely didn't do his career or body any favors at all.. It was quite a ride and gave the teenage me some great memories of living in Chicago, being a diehard Bear fans, and watching Mac play like only this moment,this play, and this game matters, and let's worry about tomorrow in the morning because it's the here and now that he was playing for.. That often breeds excitement in the moment,but definitely doesn't do much for career longevity and the "what might have been, what could have been" if only he would have had a little more respect for his body will always be a great "what if" for old school Bears fans... Oh well, those were great days to be a Bears fan, and to watch that crazy bastard play...lol. Now, sadly, Jim is paying off those checks that his body and style of play wrote for him so long ago, but it definitely wasn't boring when he was lined up under Center because with him-nothing was off the table and anything might, and probably would, happen... But, that just my simple half-assed observation and opinion from over 30 long years ago.....

Honestly, Joe Flacco’s 2012 playoff run might be the best I’ve ever seen from a QB. Should’ve probably put Joe Namath over Joe Flacco.

I call foul on the Bills. I'm a Cowboys fan, so I have no love for the Bills. But being the best in your division for 4 straight years. That's something to be proud of! Buffalo Bills fans! Hold your head up high! To be the 2nd best in the league? What about those 30 teams below you?

Another worst to win: Eli Manning, and he did it TWICE!!!

4:41 Edmonton Eskimos as they were called at the time.