Definitely underrated QB in my opinion. He had some weak teams behind him. What's next, John Brockington or Don Magic Mankowski??? Great job, I really appreciate your hard work and enjoy the topics
Dickey was great. Sucks he had those injuries. I saw a interview once where Lynn said about the Monday Night Football game on October 17, 1983 the Packers won 48-47 that during warmups he could tell it was going to be a good night. Just by how the ball felt. He said he could pinpoint the ball that night. I just happened to witness this firsthand.
Bob Schnelker said Lofton was the best player he ever coached. He said Dickey threw the best long pass of any QB he had. DIckey could have been an all time great but he had such mediocre teams around him, plus he was injury prone. He was the kind of QB you should have built a team around.
Too bad Rogers couldn't have the "Talented 3" Lofton, Coffman, Jefferson. He has had good receivers but not the total package. Dickey to Coffman the K-State connection.
Lynn Dickey: By far the best quarterback the Packers had between the Starr & Favre years (1972-1991). Interesting little tidbit: The 95-yard TD pass Dickey threw against the Vikings in 1977 (A game that the Packers lost 19-7) is still the second-longest pass in Packers team history.
maybe would have turned out better if the packers took Ronnie Lott ,Mike Singletary, and Dexter Manley in in the 81 draft instead of Rich Campbell, Gary Lewis and Byron Braggs. The defense was terrible.
Dickey was a great passer, with Lofton, Jefferson and Paul Coffman at TE that was a potent offense good enough to beat the steelers but the defense was weak. It's unfair to me that Lofton is in the HOF but Dickey isnt. I say this because all the great receivers had a great passer to work with, it makes them part of a duo that deserve to be inducted together, like Montana and Rice, Michael Irvin and Aikman, Fouts and Winslow, Stabler and Branch, Fran Tarkenton and Rashad and dozens more that as a combo changed the game.
Well, Dickey is unfortunately lost in the shuffle of not only the 80s, but also his own draft class. In that same class, Joe Theismann, Dan Pastorini, Jim Plunkett and Archie Manning were all drafted with him. Those are some big names. And injuries were an unfortunate part of his career too. He broke his leg and missed a whole season during his time in Green Bay, and if he hadn’t have gotten injured in Houston, he probably would have ousted Dan Pastorini as the starter. And then the defenses he had. Yikes and we thought Aaron Rodgers had bad defenses. Their defenses were consistently bottom 5 and in his best ever year, the Packers offense was top 5 and the defense was rank statistically the worst. That’s why they tried bringing in Forest Gregg but all he ended up doing was destroying the team, pissing Lynn Dickey off so much that he’d rather retire than play for him and pissed off the fans. Dickey had some dynamite talent along side him but unfortunately the firing of Bart Starr as coach instead of replacing the D coordinator was the big undoing. Also bad drafting and trades. I mean Green Bay had Ted freaking Hendricks on defense and they had to trade him in order to try and recover some of the lost picks from the John Hadle trade. It’s really a shame cause you could probably say Lynn was the best Packers QB behind Rodgers, Favre and Starr. He was excellent but just didn’t shine for long enough.
I was watching an dvd of the Packers vs Redskins Monday night game from 83 and I noticed that they didn’t spike the ball to stop the clock, but had to throw it out of bounds. Why? And when did they change this rule?
At best Lynn Dickey was a glorified back up qb at worst he was a glorified bum I saw enough of him play when I was a kid so he had a strong arm and so did Bobby Douglas.
Tell it like it is Karl… tell us how Dickey was a bum. I grew up there watching those teams. Lynn Dickey was hardly a very good QB… but the man was not a bum.
