09-29-2021, 02:13 PM
(09-29-2021, 09:53 AM)PhilHos Wrote: I would not call Elway a running QB. To me a running QB is someone like Lamar or Vick or Cunningham. Guys who are feared for their legs almost as much, if not more so, their arms; guys who required a defender to "spy" them. Elway may have been elusive and could run for 1st downs, but I never envisioned him as someone like that.
He's 5th all-time in attempts, 8th in total TDs, 9th in total yards, 3rd in receiving yards. By today's standards of rushing QBs his numbers are more modest but you didn't have many running QBs. Guys Tarkington, Steve Young and Elway were the running QBs. Cunningham was on another level.
Now it's much more normal. Some of the all-time guys still haven't finished playing yet. Newton, Wilson, Jackson have or will far surpass the older generations of running QBs. Vick sort of falls between these eras and is still the most prolific runner.
I get what you're saying though. I suppose it's all a matter of personal perspective. I remember watching him do things with his feet other QBs couldn't or wouldn't do and to that was what a running QB was.
