Lombardi said who was the best qb?

Don't know about that, but Sonny Jurgensen had the best quote I ever heard from a quarterback.

"There's an art to 'grounding the football.'"

Ed

 

Lombardi said, "Second place is the first loser."

:thumbs:

 

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
-Lombardi

 

Sonny

I remember watching Sonny Jurgensen .He threw a interception and you know when the QB tries to tackle the guy that picks him off .Well at the corner of the TV screen Sonny got destroyed .One of the ugliest hits I ever saw. It looked like a car hitting a chubby older man .I am pretty sure he never played again .

 

I remember Jurgenson in the late 60's and early 70's, and it seems like he threw a soft, accurate pass, rather like Ken Stabler a few years later.

The QB's of the 60's became well-known because, for the most part, they really had authority out on the field, calling their own plays, sending guys out who missed their block; basically being semi-coaches. I doubt if Van Brocklyn was the only one who had such command. A number of them, particularly Unitas, did interviews in which they degraded this loss of on-field authority and having a head coach or coordinator call the plays, and all the "personnel packages." The same man leading the same 10 others (as long as they did their job) remained their fancy.

I thought I remembered Lombardi being once quoted as saying Namath was the QB he would like to build a team around if he could start again with a new team. I've always believed the real reason he stepped down as head coach of Green Bay was because he knew they couldn't possibly continue winning after '67 and the second Super Bowl, which would tarnish his legend, having turned GB around from 1-10-1 to a winning record his first season, the conference championship his 2nd season, then 5 NFL championships in the next 7 years, with never a losing record. And he went to Washington for his final season coaching because they were capable of winning with a coach who could make them fundamentally sound, starting with his choice at QB, Jurgenson... or was Jurgenson his choice because that's where he chose to go? Anyway, they had receiver Charley Taylor and RB Larry Brown, so talented QB, RB, and WR go a long way toward setting up a winner. He wouldn't have gone to Atlanta or New Orleans, expansion teams with 'promising' rookies and worn-out veterans, or Philadephia or Chicago, filled with tired veterans more so than Green Bay at that time. The big-name coaches are most knowledgeable about where to go that winning is a likelihood.