Not including active players, here are the greatest QB’s to never win a Super Bowl. Follow Nonstop Sports • Instagram - / nonstop • Twitter - / nonstop • TikTok - / nonstop Imagery supplied by Getty Images
I've always maintained this stance when it comes to Warren Moon: If he had played his entire career in the NFL (without playing in the CFL), Moon would've owned many passing records before his time was up. What he managed to accomplish in the time he did spend in the pros is very commendable.
It truly is. To think John Elway of the Broncos may have had the same fate as Jim Kelly if he didn't finally win the last 2 Super Bowls of his career. ( John made 5 Super Bowl appearances throughout his NFL Career in total. Many QBs are fortunate to even make it to 1. )
@@waltsoph3 It took the Broncos acquiring a running back who could make plays rather than just letting Elway pass all the time is what changed. Elway as the sole scoring person could never win the big game.
Brady and Cowboys fans say this all the time. Apparently to them, if you didn't when a ring you're a bust, regardless of setbacks like injuries and such..
Yeah, kit s*cks that their RB quit in the middle of a playoff game. Elway wouldn't have won his 1st SB if Davis hadn't faked a run while blind from a migraine.
Did Jim Kelly attempt the kick? I will go out on a limb and suggest nobody in the history of the NFL deserves a superbowl ring that doesn't already have one more than Jim Kelly does. A great guy whom was dealt some very cruel cards in both sports and life. A tough cookie with heart and intensity. Not exactly remembered for his wheels many of his most exciting plays were QB scrambles where if you play Sony Playstation it would be like your QB is forced to scramble and he just so happens to be the slowest player in the league. On the plus side he he's been given the highest score in the Heart category. This player will not slide short of a first down and will not come out of a game because of injury unless his arm or leg is broken. On occasion he was forced to do so by the coach but this guy put out 100% effort and left nothing on the field. Thanks for the memories Jim. Kelly was one of the nicest guys in the game. Not the most gifted athlete ever by any means he was still talented enough when combined with his effort he was good enough to win at least one but it just wasn't meant to be. I don't think there is ever one time when I could say Jim quit or gave up on a play. You could always depend on 100% effort from Jim no matter the situation. It wasn't always good enough to win but over that 4 year stretch the Bills lost 4 Superbowls they did win 46 games and lost only 12 in games that Jim Kelly participated. No way Marino deserves a ring more than Kelly. Head to head they played 21 times. 18 regular season and 3 playoff matches in which Kelly won all three. My beat friend at the time was a Dolphins fan and I recall burning his Dolphins hat in celebration of one of those three games in a burn the lovers hat playoff game bet. The hat wasn't really worth much at the time but the lifetime memory is priceless. I would never trade those 4 years for any 4 of the post Jim Kelly but pre Josh Allen years as their is about 25 forgettable years in between. Of the other 18 matches Kelly won 11 of them. So back to the topic of best to never win. My vote goes to Kelly. Both guys had speed that could barely outrun most offensive lineman. I'll admit Marino likely had the better arm but Kelly more than makes up for that difference in every other category. It might be a dubious honor in another cruel twist for Jim Kelly but an honor none the less and Kelly gets the nod over Marino hear who played 6 more years in the NFL than Jim Kelly did.
Honorable Mentions: Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb, Tony Romo, Drew Bledsoe, Alex Smith, Doug Flutie, Jeff George, Jeff Garcia, Kerry Collins, Dante Culpepper, Mark Brunell, Cordell Stewart, Rich Gannon, Danny White, Boomer Esaison, Vinny Testaverde, Chad Pennington, Jake Delhomme, Marc Bulger, Matt Hasselback, Carson Palmer, maybe Matt Ryan, Cam Newton, Tony Romo, and Andy Dalton pretty soon.
Judging a QB based off not being able to carry a team to a championship is completely unfair. One great player cannot compensate for a bad defense. 53 man rosters and salary cap make it hard to win without a lot of good pieces around the QB
From middle school to high school, I lost bunch of comic books and couple sets football cards during those four bills years. My heart (as well as my wallet) died with that fourth super bowl. Still hurts this day, but more on the fact that I want Kelly and Thomas to have that ring...
I hear what your saying but in those 4 years in games kelly played Buffalo had 46 wins and 12 losses. I went to 8 of those games and the Bills went 8-0 in those games. While each of the 4 years ended in heartbreak and frustration there were plenty of pleasant memories from that time. From being 4 rows off the field behind the Bills sideline at the 35 yard line and being there when the Bills won the AFC championship 10-7 and the comeback against the Oilers which was a record until this past year being the two most memorable games I attended in person there were plenty more good times during those years. My heart died after Kelly retired and for the next 20 years we ended up as nothing more than Tom Brady road kill. Poor Qb decisions were one after another between Jim Kelly and Josh Allen with not a one of them in between living up to expectations. It was 20 years from Hell as stalwarts like Todd Collins, Drew Bledsoe, Doug Flute and others brought us 20 years of football that was extremely tough to watch. I feel as though the Bills are the team of destiny this year. Glad the Chiefs won today as winning the Superbowl would not have nearly as much meaning without kicking the Chiefs ass along the way. I've just got that feeling and have since their season ended in heartbreaking fashion. This is the year that Buffalo final delivers a pro sports Championship to fans of the Bills and the Sabers. Both snakebitten in their leagues penultimate game or series. 0-4 for the Bills and 0 and 2 for the boys of hockey. This will be the year that misery will end. My angel Josh Allen told me so. All we have to do is sit back and watch the man at work and see how it all plays out. No high profile player in football is as humble and likeable as Josh Allen and I think he is the best player on the best team in football and I have little doubt that anybody is going to beat Josh Allen and Bills again this year finally delivering this lifelong fan of both Buffalo team for the Sabers for their entire existence and the Bills for the entire Superbowl era and it is not lost on me that this might be the best opportunity for one of these 2 franchises to finally deliver its fanbase a championship they can be proud of. I have remained loyal my whole life and just once in my lifetime I sincerely hope I get that opportunity to experience how it feels to be on the winning side of a professional sports league championship. Time is ticking for me. No better time than now to scratch this off the bucket list. Sorry Cincinatti. This isn't going to be your year. You had your chance last year and blew it. Trust me Jim Kelly fans know how you feel. You would almost have to be heartless to not feel some sense of joy when Josh Allen walks up to accept the Lombardie trophy from Paul Tagliabue to bring home Buffalo's first major victory. At one time i thought there would be multiple Titles in my lifetime but I'm not naive enough or greedy enough to ask the sporting gods for anymore than just one now. I believe this is the year. It definitely feels different. I'm praying that this is finally the year when the sporting gods finally stop turning up the middle finger at the city of Buffalo. If there is a city out there that deserves it more than Buffalo please let me know. Leafs fans need not apply. Toronto has 2 baseball and one basketball championship so don't even go there. Go Bills!
Literally the best QB to ever play for the Cowboys, and even HOFer Troy Aikman admitted as much. If Romo had the teams around him that Aikman had in the 90s, the Cowboys would have won at least one more ring, and possibly even been the first team to 3-peat and 4-peat in the Big Game.
Holy cow! The two comments on this that I came into here are both absurd. First, Romo has always been over rated. For some reason players on the Cowboys are judged better than actually are. Second, and btw, a far more egregious statement, not saying Roger Staubach is the best QB Dallas has ever had.
Tony Romo, like Philip Rivers and Donovan McNabb were choke artists. They'd put up great numbers during the Reg season and IF they made the play offs, they would choke hard.
@@Headbanger9000 except Romo played great in playoffs. Despite being sacked 22-25 times and hit 50 times in his 6 playoff games, he still had a 8-2 td-int, and 1 of those ints was just a 4th and long toss up with 14 seconds left in the game. So really 8-1 td-int. Imagine if his receivers didn't drop a bunch of easy tds, easy bombs, and a bunch of third downs? Yeah. As for 2014 it literally took the refs helping green Bay multiple times just to prevent cowboys from making the nfc championship.
@@guidorrmc7618 Romo played on the third worst defense in nfl history. Trash olines and the worst cowboys run games since 1960. Yet never had a losing record. The dude had a team statistically worst than 0-16 Detroit, and 0-16 browns yet again never had a losing record. Solely because he carried the trash team on his back. And literally broke his back multiple times for it. Yet the guy is still top 5-6 in tds per game and yards per game and passing rating in nfl history. Romo is literally the most underrated player in nfl history and your comment proves that even more.
I just did a 2,000 hour study and wrote a book on the subject of greatest quarterbacks of all time. I first compared how much better they were than the average quarterback of their era and then compared those stats. The top quarterbacks to never win the big one are in order #1 Fran Tarkenton, then Y.A. Tittle, Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, Matt Ryan, Sonny Jurgensen, Warren Moon, Philip Rivers and Jim Kelly. I will say that my study only took Hall of Fame quarterbacks and some recent stars that are headed to the hall so Ken Anderson may also be somewhere in this list. I believe that when I run Anderson through the gauntlet that is my formula he will prove to be of Hall of Fame quality.
Cunningham, Moon, Kelly, Marino that was quite the era of NFL football. 😀 Sad to see none of them ever win a Super Bowl. Just wonderful QB talent that just happened to face other wonderful talents. If those talents weren't around at that time we maybe flipping the script in NFL football history, They were that good.
Bernie Kosar was great for 6 or so seasons , none of the AFC championship games that they lost were his fault! His body gave out , but a top 7 QB from 85 to 91
I have what I believe to be Warren Moon's autograph. I found it in a pack of cards that I picked out from a bin of 90s football trading cards for $.99 each and there was a card of him in it with his signature in faded permanent marker which I think he probably autographed. Quite a steal if you ask me
Ikr?? These sports people are dumb anymore. There were some HOF players and some greats who aren't in the HOF (Ken Anderson, Steve McNair) and Vick doesn't hold a candle to those guys, sorry
You can tell the reason they will not is because they have a profound lack of knowledge regarding history. The biggest example of this is how many times the narrator said, "The league had never seen a rushing QB like (name) before," without bothering to point out that up until 1950 most QB's (90+%) were just runners who called plays and threw the ball if in desperation or trickery. After 1950 when teams began to have passing strategies (Bob Waterfield with the Rams & Otto Graham with the Browns) all QB's became dual threat QB's because while the passing game was underway, most teams still ran more than threw, including the QB. So it was only from 1970-1990 that dual threat QB's had taken a backseat. There is literally Fuck All about the current game of football that is intrinsically or inherently different than it was 75 years ago. Like I wrote above, people just lack historical knowledge and will automatically have a bias towards the era they lived in.
By focusing just on the Super Bowl Era, you eliminated some fine quarterbacks from earlier eras like YA Tittle, Sid Luckman, George Blanda, John Brodie, and Sonny Jurgensen.
As a lifelong Giants fan I both hated and was terrified of Randall Cunningham. As for Moon it can never be said enough prettiest passes ever, just artwork. Dan Marino, what about Guy Benjamin or David Woodley? Now I'm just trollin' ya.
Ken Anderson didn’t win because the team he was playing for had no right to be winning. He dragged the team as far as it would go time and time again but he simply didn’t have the help
Fully agree, for one thing Archie Griffin was not the player people were led to believe he was in college. His best rushing season was 688 yards as a pro, by the way his 2nd Heisman he had only 4 tds. Ricky Bell, Chuck Muncie, and Tony Dorsett had better seasons that year. At the end of his career he did have the GREAT James Brooks, who was probably the toughest 180 lb running back ever.
Matt Ryan has some of the craziest postseason stats to never have won a Super Bowl. I know he's technically not retired, but functionally he is and will be on one of these videos pretty soon.
Lot of outstanding quarterbacks in this list. Winning the Super Bowl is the only goal that matters in the NFL. But it takes some great playing to even get close.
Marino and the Dolphins made the AFC championship in 1985 and again in 1992, they were favorites in both of those games. The Dolphins were in the playoffs in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
If Bills won all 4 super bowls Jim Kelly would be the only QB to win 4x straight and would be considered in the GOAT talks easily. Still a Hall of Famer and iconic player though and a huge inspiration.
Jim Kelly maybe never won a superbowl, but after he retire no one has taken a team to 4 consecutive afc championship , those Buffalo teams were great teams , good coaching , good players , it will be a long time before a team can achieve what those Buffalo teams did 😮
My list 10. Warren moon. Great arm, great player, but luck of sucess in the postseason. Not all his fault 9. Phillip rivers. 17 years, 8 pro bowls, clutch guy 8. Micheal vick. Not the best passer, but a great runner 7. Tony romo. A choke artist, yes. Great qb, i think so. He makes bad plays turn good 6. Ken anderson. The king accuracy, who made the bengals a formidable foe in the 70s 5. Dan fouts. Record setter, great arm, who just so happened to play for the chargers. Poor guy 4. Fran tarkenton. 10 time pro bowler, who owned every passing record when he retired 3. Sonny jurgensen. He led the nfl in passing yards 5 times, and is easily the redskins best qb statistically. Too bad the skins were at an all time low when he was qb 2. Jim kelly. Toughest, leadership, intelligence. That's jimbo 1. Dan marino. A pure passer, who was sadly wasted. He was tough, he was clutch, and he knew how to read a defense better than anyone in his era
Often I have the impression that quarterbacks like Randall Cunningham, Michael Vick, Cam Newton, and probably even Lamar Jackson are better athletes than they are quarterbacks and that makes a difference.
Matthew Stafford. This guy has some numbers. And now he has a ring. If he doesn't go to the Rams he probably doesn't win a ring. And I think he should be on the list.
Can't forget Dan Marino hall of fame quarterback set all kinds of passing records before Brett Favre and now tom brady shattered them Miami dolphins he had mark duper and mark clayton both not hall of Famers lol ha ha
Sorry, not buying Fouts. He had gaudy yards because Don Coryell was allergic to the running game. That's like saying Texas Tech has the greatest quarterback every year because they throw for a trillion yards in the air.