I like Tom Brady for one.
Peyton Manning seems to be pretty consistent in protecting the ball.
I love what Chad Pennington has done this year.
Aaron Rodgers takes care of the ball pretty well.
Ben gets too loose with the ball for my liking but he is still young.
Bottom line is when you turnover the ball you lose.
Many HOF QB's have made boneheaded decisions before.
Not many of them have led the league in T.O's as rookies let alone as 12 year vets.
The difference is not making boneheaded decisions. That happens. It's how OFTEN you do them. That's what the point is.
Manning has 12 int.'s this year, same as Warner. Rogers has 11. Most of those, boneheaded decisions. Pennington has 6, far fewer, but then again he plays in a far more conservative offense & has less than half the td's Warner does. Pennington & great qb are rarely used in the same sentence.
Would you complain if Dan Marino was our qb in his prime? Danny had several years of over 20 int.'s & was usually in the high teens other than that. I'm convinced some of you would have been complaining about him too!
You say "Bottom line is when you turnover the ball you lose." Well that can be true. It depends on what kind of team you have. Look at Warner's numbers when he was w/ the GSOT. They didn't lose to much, & he had lot's of t.o.'s. As stated earlier, Montana had 3 int.'s vs. the Cowboys in the NFC championship game & still won. Bradshaw had 3 in the SB & still won! Those are about as big a stage as you get.
The difference, & why they get a pass & Warner doesn't? TEAMS! They had better TEAMS that made you forget about the mistakes. If this team had a defense & special teams like those, most wouldn't even notice Warner's foibles just as they didn't w/ Montana, Bradshaw, Young, etc. Well that's not necessarily true, some would still hate him b/c of his religion which is a shame.
Point is, it's not like Warner has had 6 t.o's every game. He's had 2 bad games this year, & even those were just bad half's of those games. Out of 13 games so far, he has 2 bad ones? We've won the division for the first time in forever, & some want to start a rant about 1 int. in a game we won in a route, where for once he didn't have to carry the team in the 2nd half? I've played & coached for years, thank goodness I never had to deal w/ some I've had to frequent here, at least not on a regular basis.
The final point is that out of the qb's you mentioned, that supposedly take care of the ball better, not one of them is having a better year than Warner. And Warner is 37 years old w/ no running game or stellar defense. As a pragmatist & strategist, I'll give up those occasional boneheaded plays to get the overall performance we've received from Warner this year. I would take him over Pennington, who has half the Int.'s, any day. It's the whole picture I'm interested in, not just a skewed piece of the pie. No one in the league could have taken the beating, physically or fan wise, that Warner has taken & still accomplished what Warner has done this year. As a football man, that means more than the occasional boneheaded play.
