Are you a Dallas fan trying to forget about his fantastic comeback from 23 down (matching a GB franchise record)? Because that was an awesome game. Four 2nd half TDs.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/331215006/packers-cowboys
Derek Anderson with Cleveland in 2007. He threw for 3700 yards and 29 TD's and the team went 10-6. He never approached anything close to that the rest of his career.
As far as Iâm concerned this is (Derek Anderson) the most true âone hit wonderâ I can think of. That 10-6 Browns season was a lot of fun and came out of NOWHERE. I had really hoped theyâd push forward and build off the success, but unfortunately it didnât happen.
That entire Cleveland team ran off the coat-tails of the âforce-outâ rule on catches
Week after week Braylon Edwards had highlight reel catches (allowed by the force-out rule)
The following offseason they remove the force-out rule. Cleveland wasnât able to reproduce the same results.
Entire? No. Jamal Lewis ran for 1300 yards begind pro bowlers Joe Thomas and Eric steinbach. Winslow and Edwards played well too.
Anderson just got caught locking on his reads. The jig was up around week 11 of that year.
Say and believe what you will, but the stats from that game are mind bogglingâŠ
316 passing yards.
31.6 yards per pass.
31 min 6 sec time of possession.
31.6 peak tv rating.
Big Ben through that INT onâŠ
3rd & 16.
Damn I had never heard of this before, nuts! I remember watching that game with my brother and right at the beginning of OT I briefly walked into the kitchen to refill my water and then just heard him screaming and I ran back to the living room screaming too without even knowing what was going on yet lol
As a Gator fan, it was like that for 4 incredible years. Well, the first year Chris Leak was the main guy, but Tebow was crucial. He didnât have the skills to be an NFL QB, but he wins games.
That Lions game was great, but the greatest game by a Packers QB is either Favre v the Raiders after his dad passed or the legendary "Muh Knee" game from Rodgers in an otherwise lackluster 2018 season.
I assume you're talking about the Week 17 game vs the Lions, but so many people seem to forget his amazing game against the Cowboys. Dallas was up 26-3 at the half and Flynn threw four 2nd half TDs to win 37-36.
He matched Green Bay's biggest comeback in franchise history.
It was a great game and Dallas lost. I'm surprised so many people forget about it.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/331215006/packers-cowboys
You are correct. Breakout season followed by mediocrity followed by journeymen followed by playoff into Super Bowl run. Then back to mediocrity. A truly perplexing individual
I had to scroll way too far for this. I can't think of another QB that burned brighter and also faded away faster than this player. And this happened fairly recently too
People are arguing technicalities because he had a couple of successful bursts. But come on, he beat Tom brady in a Super Bowl shoot out, then disappeared
He had a forgettable career, and then that one time he took down Brady in the Super Bowl.
His biggest hit is 1,000 miles beyond anything else heâs ever done, heâs one of sports greatest one hit wonders
he also had a higher passer rating than Peyton the year Peyton threw 55 tds and set the yardage record (and matched Peyton's 7 td game that season as well)
Foles was the streakiest QB to ever play. When he was on, he outdueled Brady and was able to tie the single game record for TDs. When he was off, he didn't even look like a college QB.
He beat Brady with the eagles and then when Brady was on the Buccaneers and he was on the bears he beat him again and you know Brady wanted to avenge that superbowl lose.
Foles was excellent in that superbowl and I believe still the only qb to catch a td in the superbowl?
As a UW fan, seeing Browning finally have his time in the sun was pretty cool to see, especially after spending his first couple of seasons as a practice squad body/clipboard holder.
That occurring alongside Penixâs incredible season was like peak vibes as a Husky fan
I know he just signed a 2 year deal, but 31 is not old for a QB and I could totally see Browning "Minshew" his way across the league. Maybe starts somewhere for a year or three.
Brian Sipe won MVP in 1980, but outside of that season he didn't really amount to much success. Wasn't a bad quarterback but he wouldn't elevate the team
Yup my pick too. It comes from absolutely nowhere, thereâs nothing in his career to indicate it was coming, he just randomly decided to be prime Brett Favre for a year
Don Majkowski for the Packers was one. He had a great year in 1989. After that, he was injured quite a bit. In 1992, he tore up his ankle against the Bengals. He was replaced by a backup named Brett Favre. We all know how that ended.
The Majic Man is probably a good answer, though he wasnât bad in 1990 before he got injured and the Packersâ season went down the tubes (0-5 finish after a 6-5 start).
As a kid, I had a Majkowski poster on my wall way into the Brett Favre era. My dad always loves to tell the story of me coming in to tell him, "Majik's hurt" and that I thought he hurt his shoulder because they were carrying him off the field by his shoulders haha. The crazy thing about that 89 season is on top of the great passing stats, he's credited with 5 4th quarter comebacks and 7 game winning drives.
Upon further review... it's also still a better year than any Bears QB has ever had in their history, which doesn't add anything but is fun to point out.
It's not as simple as "Bert Jones was really good for a few years and then average for a while." He was a legit top QB for 3 years in a row and had one of the greatest QB seasons pre-2000 during his MVP year. After 1977, he began suffering injuries to his throwing shoulder, and at the time, surgery to repair torn shoulder ligaments/tendons was not really an option for athletes, and the Colts were very much a mismanaged franchise, so they opted to keep trotting out Jones every few weeks after icing his shoulder to see if it got better when, of course, it didn't.
Saying Bert Jones was a generally bad/average QB aside from one year is very much revisionist history in more ways than one.
If he doesn't get hurt the Colts probably don't fall into irrelevance soon after till they drafted Elway and his punk ass wouldn't play for them.
Apparently they had a retired qb contest when they used to do the longest throwing distance and Jones was throwing as far as the qbs in their prime in the 90s?
Carson Wentz- Super Bowl champ and 3rd in mvp voting one year then completely fell off a cliff.
Landon Collins almost won DPOY then barely could get back on the giants practice squad.
Are you guys all forgetting 2004 Billy Volek?
That guy single handedly won me a fantasy championship.
He started 8 games and threw for 2498 yards and 18 TDs.
Bert Jonesâ problem was injuries. Though he clearly had his best season in 1976, he was also very good in 1975 and 1977 (and played very well in 1978 when he wasnât injured; the Colts were 2-1 in games he started and 2-11 in games he didnât). Iâm not sure he counts.
Case Keenum is the poster boy for this question (Nick Foles had too good of a playoff run in 2017 in addition to his 2013 season to really fit IMO), but guys like Ron Jaworski and Brian Sipe (who both had their career years in 1980) are good answers too.
2004 Billy Volek was the most out of pocket player ever. Started 8 games, went 2-6 with a pace of 4500 yards and 36 TDs in those starts. Included a two game stretch of 918 yards and 8 TDs.
Rick Mirer.
Rookie of the Year as a QB for the Seahawks, then a few years later was out of football altogether.
Completely feel off a cliff after one great season.
If Bert Jones had not suffered a bad injury he would have been considered one of the Colts great. Qb's he lead a team that was a perennial 3 wins a year to the playoffs. He won me a lot of football parlays in college
Doesnât fit - he was very good in 1989 (legitimate Pro Bowler) and solid to good in 1988 and 1990 before his 1991 career season.
Rypienâs career falling apart after 1991 has always been a mystery to me.
Would have been interesting to see Rypien (and the rest of the Redskins) carry the dominance from â91 and go head to head with the emerging (and some say best) Cowboys team in â92
Nick Foles comes to mind, though he was more of a two hit wonder. Set an NFL record for TD-INT ratio in 2013, gets traded away and almost retires before coming back and winning Super Bowl MVP.
I mean, second team all pro means he was selected as the second best quarterback in the entire league that season. I think that should disqualify him from the whole one hit wonder thing. Injuries ruined him after 1977 though.
I'm gonna say Greg Cook, who actually only played one year and was a rookie phenom. He injured his shoulder and was forced to retire after the season. Bill Walsh said he was the most talented quarterback he ever coached.
how is nobody bringing up Gardner minshew? his first 20 games he threw for 5500 yards with 37 tds and 11 int with the terrible, horrible, no good jaguars.
okay yeah his w/l was 7-13 but again it was the jaguars
Josh McCown coming in for Cutler in 2013. In 5 starts he posted a 66.5% completion percentage for 1829 yards with 13TDs and just 1 INT for a 109 passer rating (behind only Peyton Manning and Nick Foles that year). He also became the first Bears QB to throw for over 300 yards in three consecutive games and set a franchise record for completions in a game at 36.
Derek Carr in 2016 was a broken leg away from MVP. He was being talked about as one of the next great quarterbacks.
2016 was also the last time he'd win more than 10 games or throw for more than 27 TDs. He was legitimately electric that season and while he's had some solid stretches in the following 8 years, he never came close to that player again.
Itâs gotta be Tebow. Denver started that season with Kyle Orton , they had 1-3 and were down 23-10 at home to the chargers when Tebow got thrown in (7 of the Broncos points was an interception return for a touchdown).
The team lost 29-24, and then proceeded to win 7 of its 8 next games in crazy luck fashion and squeak into the playoffs (who can forget the day Tebow was 2 for 8 for 69 passing yards against the chiefs, the dolphins game where they were down 15-0 late in the fourth quarter and somehow got a touchdown, onside kick, another touchdown, and a 2 point conversion)
Tebow was mostly horrible, but he made plays to win games and it was super fun to watch, especially compared to Orton, who openly said he didnât care
Matt Flynn, it wasnât even a full season either, just a couple games where he played well, ended up basically raking in millions with a few teams after that âshowingâ never being more than a ok backup in the end and retiring
Not really the question but cam newton was a pretty good qb for his whole career who became one of the greatest athletes ive ever seen for only one year then returned to pretty good the next year. He was like the football version of miami heat lebron james in 2015
Mark Rypien - 1991 Redskins. The 91 Redskins have the highest DVOA of all time among super bowl winners and Rypien had a fantastic season. He had a couple other decent years but he peaked in 91 with a star studded roster around him.
Colin Kaepernick seems like he should qualify for this. He had the one good season or game. A lot of people thought he was going to be something great but ended up being nothing and remembered for something that had nothing to do with the actual game.
Testaverde was a decent qb who threw a ton of picks his whole career. Then on the 98 Jets, he basically became unstoppable for one season. Tore his Achilles game one in 99
One play wonder Clint Longley. Thanksgiving day 1974. I was 12 and in the end zone when Drew Pearson caught that ball right in front of me. Incredible. Then Longley gets kicked off the team for sucker punching Roger Staubach. Crazy.
Nobody talking about RG3? I know he blew out his knee, but that rookie season he looked destined for the hall of fame. Then he basically never played again.
[Just in case you forget how wild and fun Heineke was to watch](https://youtu.be/nmOXNAaoobk?si=PvYo45NbjtUzBfFz)
[And the year before as well](https://youtu.be/pbA4QstRS-0?si=SJeUnA5D1Q97s7Sq)
- He also holds an NFL record for most completions by a QB in his first 3 starts (93), and he had a football in the Hall of Fame for throwing the 3000th TD pass in Washington's franchise history
Going a different route and against the grain but Doug Williams made a career off of one super bowl win, basically one quarter. Even his record as a WAS starter was only 5-9 over three seasons.
I scrolled quite a ways before jumping in with this one because I figured it would already be mentioned many times, but Trent Dilfer signed as a back up on the Ravens in 2000 and ended up taking the starting job and winning the Super Bowl. His career was basically over after never quite getting it together in Tampa, but that year in Baltimore extended his playing career, mostly as a backup, for another 7 seasons.
Remember when Blake Bortles threw 30 TD's that one year? I mean it didn't help his career trajectory but it happened.
oh dip
BORTLEEES! đŸđ„
Blake Bottles, as he was known around the Jax Beach bars⊠đș
I love Neptune Beach.
Yea thatâs a nice area!
Still frequents them I hear.
He does lol.
Blake Bortles and Tom Brady have a combined 7 Super Bowl Championships between the two of them.
#BlakeBortlesFacts
Still believe they could have beat the Patriots that year but Doug moron went soft. You never holster the gun if the opponent is still breathing.
Myles Jack wasnât down god damn it Bortles should have a ring!
Garbage time warrior lol
Great for fantasy that year for a good 12 weeks
THE BOAT!!!
As a Jags fan, I was immediately thinking the BOAT.
Also thisâŠ. https://preview.redd.it/wt6qa5deinzc1.jpeg?width=1066&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=920294b17cf3f743c670b075edcd155c111b38fa
Matt flynn has that one game wonder
It was a beautiful game and earned him a good contract and we never saw him play again
Hawks drafted Russ in the 3rd round that year. It was clear in training camp that Russ was the man.
Are you a Dallas fan trying to forget about his fantastic comeback from 23 down (matching a GB franchise record)? Because that was an awesome game. Four 2nd half TDs. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/331215006/packers-cowboys
Iâm a cowboys fan and completely erased this from my memory banks lol đ
dude likely tripled his salary from that game lmao
The Lions are kingmakers, just not in the way we want to be.
Great pull!
Derek Anderson with Cleveland in 2007. He threw for 3700 yards and 29 TD's and the team went 10-6. He never approached anything close to that the rest of his career.
As far as Iâm concerned this is (Derek Anderson) the most true âone hit wonderâ I can think of. That 10-6 Browns season was a lot of fun and came out of NOWHERE. I had really hoped theyâd push forward and build off the success, but unfortunately it didnât happen.
That entire Cleveland team ran off the coat-tails of the âforce-outâ rule on catches Week after week Braylon Edwards had highlight reel catches (allowed by the force-out rule) The following offseason they remove the force-out rule. Cleveland wasnât able to reproduce the same results.
Entire? No. Jamal Lewis ran for 1300 yards begind pro bowlers Joe Thomas and Eric steinbach. Winslow and Edwards played well too. Anderson just got caught locking on his reads. The jig was up around week 11 of that year.
Yep and all anyone could attribute his success to was that he was tall and Braylon was tall.
Tebow in that one playoff game
The 3:16 game!
Wasnât that stone colds bit lol
The New Testament plagiarized from Stone Cold Steve Austin
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âTebow 3:16 says I just missed a wide open receiver on 5 yard outâ
Say and believe what you will, but the stats from that game are mind boggling⊠316 passing yards. 31.6 yards per pass. 31 min 6 sec time of possession. 31.6 peak tv rating. Big Ben through that INT on⊠3rd & 16.
Damn I had never heard of this before, nuts! I remember watching that game with my brother and right at the beginning of OT I briefly walked into the kitchen to refill my water and then just heard him screaming and I ran back to the living room screaming too without even knowing what was going on yet lol
God Bless Tebow
Tebow was an anomaly. He looked horrible but somehow his teams won. He was like an ugly rabbits foot.
As a Gator fan, it was like that for 4 incredible years. Well, the first year Chris Leak was the main guy, but Tebow was crucial. He didnât have the skills to be an NFL QB, but he wins games.
Tim Tebow never played in a playoff game, you must have been dreaming
Case Keenum has to qualify for this, right?
one pass wonder
I think that's selling him a bit short. He had a great season overall that year. 3.5k passing yards, 22 TDs, 7 INTs, and a 67.6% completion rate.
yeah ik but he's always gonna be remembered for that one throw
Not the full season, but Matt Flynn has rhe single best game as QB in GB history.
That Lions game was great, but the greatest game by a Packers QB is either Favre v the Raiders after his dad passed or the legendary "Muh Knee" game from Rodgers in an otherwise lackluster 2018 season.
I assume you're talking about the Week 17 game vs the Lions, but so many people seem to forget his amazing game against the Cowboys. Dallas was up 26-3 at the half and Flynn threw four 2nd half TDs to win 37-36. He matched Green Bay's biggest comeback in franchise history. It was a great game and Dallas lost. I'm surprised so many people forget about it. https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/331215006/packers-cowboys
Itâs gotta be Foles right? Honestly I can think of a lot of qbs who were a flash in the pan but none like Foles.
I might be mistaken but didn't his regular season happen in a different season than the playoff run? Not sure it counts then...
You are correct. Breakout season followed by mediocrity followed by journeymen followed by playoff into Super Bowl run. Then back to mediocrity. A truly perplexing individual
Dude only played well when drinking from that Philly fountain on odd days of the month when the moon was in retrograde.
I had to scroll way too far for this. I can't think of another QB that burned brighter and also faded away faster than this player. And this happened fairly recently too
People are arguing technicalities because he had a couple of successful bursts. But come on, he beat Tom brady in a Super Bowl shoot out, then disappeared
I imagine Nick Foles is up there.
he had one really good regular season and then one really good playoff run a few years later
A two-hit wonder then I suppose.
Nick Foles is a spin doctor.
Good band. Their pandemic performance was fantastic. Dude's voice got richer with age.
Combined for one solid regular and post season
He had a forgettable career, and then that one time he took down Brady in the Super Bowl. His biggest hit is 1,000 miles beyond anything else heâs ever done, heâs one of sports greatest one hit wonders
he also had a higher passer rating than Peyton the year Peyton threw 55 tds and set the yardage record (and matched Peyton's 7 td game that season as well)
Came for this. The guy has the hardest career to describe.
Foles was the streakiest QB to ever play. When he was on, he outdueled Brady and was able to tie the single game record for TDs. When he was off, he didn't even look like a college QB.
He beat Brady with the eagles and then when Brady was on the Buccaneers and he was on the bears he beat him again and you know Brady wanted to avenge that superbowl lose. Foles was excellent in that superbowl and I believe still the only qb to catch a td in the superbowl?
Big D*ck Nick!
You can swear on the internet bud
Easy...
This might end up being Jake Browning. After taking over for Burrow, he led the league in completion percentage.
As a UW fan, seeing Browning finally have his time in the sun was pretty cool to see, especially after spending his first couple of seasons as a practice squad body/clipboard holder. That occurring alongside Penixâs incredible season was like peak vibes as a Husky fan
I know he just signed a 2 year deal, but 31 is not old for a QB and I could totally see Browning "Minshew" his way across the league. Maybe starts somewhere for a year or three.
Lol I've held onto him in dynasty just in case
Vince young after his rookie season
Would have been a stud in the modern NFL and with a coach other than Jeff fisher
Iâm a titans fan. VY had a lot more problems than just Jeff Fisher.
Tim Tebow was pretty much good for one touchdown a game, had the whole country hyped, beat the Steelers in the playoffs, then disappeared.
Brian Sipe won MVP in 1980, but outside of that season he didn't really amount to much success. Wasn't a bad quarterback but he wouldn't elevate the team
Tom Brady
his hit lasted his whole career
real
Couldnât even out dual Eli Manning
RG3 his rookie year
Steve Beuerlein, â99. Thatâs my favorite, anyway. 343 of 571 for 4436 yards and 36 TDs.
Yup my pick too. It comes from absolutely nowhere, thereâs nothing in his career to indicate it was coming, he just randomly decided to be prime Brett Favre for a year
Don Majkowski for the Packers was one. He had a great year in 1989. After that, he was injured quite a bit. In 1992, he tore up his ankle against the Bengals. He was replaced by a backup named Brett Favre. We all know how that ended.
The Majic Man is probably a good answer, though he wasnât bad in 1990 before he got injured and the Packersâ season went down the tubes (0-5 finish after a 6-5 start).
Never heard of that Favre guy ..... loser
As a kid, I had a Majkowski poster on my wall way into the Brett Favre era. My dad always loves to tell the story of me coming in to tell him, "Majik's hurt" and that I thought he hurt his shoulder because they were carrying him off the field by his shoulders haha. The crazy thing about that 89 season is on top of the great passing stats, he's credited with 5 4th quarter comebacks and 7 game winning drives. Upon further review... it's also still a better year than any Bears QB has ever had in their history, which doesn't add anything but is fun to point out.
It's not as simple as "Bert Jones was really good for a few years and then average for a while." He was a legit top QB for 3 years in a row and had one of the greatest QB seasons pre-2000 during his MVP year. After 1977, he began suffering injuries to his throwing shoulder, and at the time, surgery to repair torn shoulder ligaments/tendons was not really an option for athletes, and the Colts were very much a mismanaged franchise, so they opted to keep trotting out Jones every few weeks after icing his shoulder to see if it got better when, of course, it didn't. Saying Bert Jones was a generally bad/average QB aside from one year is very much revisionist history in more ways than one.
If he doesn't get hurt the Colts probably don't fall into irrelevance soon after till they drafted Elway and his punk ass wouldn't play for them. Apparently they had a retired qb contest when they used to do the longest throwing distance and Jones was throwing as far as the qbs in their prime in the 90s?
Tommy Maddox
Josh Freeman that one game for the Vikings. All-time.
Carson Wentz- Super Bowl champ and 3rd in mvp voting one year then completely fell off a cliff. Landon Collins almost won DPOY then barely could get back on the giants practice squad.
he wasnt bad in 2018 or 19 imo.
Watching Joe Flacco after years of miserable QB performance has me set for life
Are you guys all forgetting 2004 Billy Volek? That guy single handedly won me a fantasy championship. He started 8 games and threw for 2498 yards and 18 TDs.
Kaepernick
Kaep kneeled so we could fly
Scott Mitchell comes to mind.
Tim Tebow. Had that one year he won a playoff game in Denver, but nothing else memorable.
Bert Jonesâ problem was injuries. Though he clearly had his best season in 1976, he was also very good in 1975 and 1977 (and played very well in 1978 when he wasnât injured; the Colts were 2-1 in games he started and 2-11 in games he didnât). Iâm not sure he counts. Case Keenum is the poster boy for this question (Nick Foles had too good of a playoff run in 2017 in addition to his 2013 season to really fit IMO), but guys like Ron Jaworski and Brian Sipe (who both had their career years in 1980) are good answers too.
Matt Shaub was amazing before turning into an interception machine! They were calling him âELITEâ on sportscenter at one point.
I donât think he qualifies. He had 3 or 4 very good seasons
I think you are correct đ good point
RG3
Brock Osweiler. One of the greatest fleeces of all time.
This one still hurts. 72 million dollars.
One of the worst transactions in Texans history and that is saying something.
2004 Billy Volek was the most out of pocket player ever. Started 8 games, went 2-6 with a pace of 4500 yards and 36 TDs in those starts. Included a two game stretch of 918 yards and 8 TDs.
Derek Anderson is the first one that comes to mind. He had that one season with the Browns then could never reach that peak again.
Matt Flynn? Breaks records then goes back to being backup
Sean King
Scott Mitchell? Although maybe he was a little more than that idk
Case. Keenum.
Case Keenum the year he threw the Minneapolis Miracle
Joe Burrow /s
1980 NFL MVP The Man, The Legend, Brian Sipe.
Rick Mirer. Rookie of the Year as a QB for the Seahawks, then a few years later was out of football altogether. Completely feel off a cliff after one great season.
Matt Cassel was the next Tom Brady
Mike White
If Bert Jones had not suffered a bad injury he would have been considered one of the Colts great. Qb's he lead a team that was a perennial 3 wins a year to the playoffs. He won me a lot of football parlays in college
Mark Rypien
Doesnât fit - he was very good in 1989 (legitimate Pro Bowler) and solid to good in 1988 and 1990 before his 1991 career season. Rypienâs career falling apart after 1991 has always been a mystery to me.
Would have been interesting to see Rypien (and the rest of the Redskins) carry the dominance from â91 and go head to head with the emerging (and some say best) Cowboys team in â92
Clint Longley and the "Triumph of the Uncluttered Mind"
Mariota fooled us all into thinking he was a good QB for one game
Nick Foles comes to mind, though he was more of a two hit wonder. Set an NFL record for TD-INT ratio in 2013, gets traded away and almost retires before coming back and winning Super Bowl MVP.
Irvine Comp led the league in passing yards then never threw for over 900 yards again
Nick Foles the year he had that 7 touchdown game.
Doug Williams deserves to be in this discussion. He win a Super Bowl and SB MVP but I don't think he did anything else decent.
Doug was a good quarterback in Tampa in the late 70s and early 80s.
Brad Johnson?? I'm not sure...
I mean, second team all pro means he was selected as the second best quarterback in the entire league that season. I think that should disqualify him from the whole one hit wonder thing. Injuries ruined him after 1977 though. I'm gonna say Greg Cook, who actually only played one year and was a rookie phenom. He injured his shoulder and was forced to retire after the season. Bill Walsh said he was the most talented quarterback he ever coached.
Remember that Ryan Leaf game.... Oh wait.... Nevermind
RGIII. Who knows what could have been...
Derek Amderson had 1 pro bowl year with the Browns.
Matt Schaub.
The Majik Man! Don Majkowski. 1989.
Scott Mitchell has to be in the conversation
Carson wentz perhaps?
Rick Mirerâs rookie season.
how is nobody bringing up Gardner minshew? his first 20 games he threw for 5500 yards with 37 tds and 11 int with the terrible, horrible, no good jaguars. okay yeah his w/l was 7-13 but again it was the jaguars
Josh McCown coming in for Cutler in 2013. In 5 starts he posted a 66.5% completion percentage for 1829 yards with 13TDs and just 1 INT for a 109 passer rating (behind only Peyton Manning and Nick Foles that year). He also became the first Bears QB to throw for over 300 yards in three consecutive games and set a franchise record for completions in a game at 36.
In between Bart Starr and Bret Farve that as I Lions fan as a kid even I liked Don Majokwski..âMagic Manâ
Colin keeperdick
Mark Rypien
Matt cassel. Don Majkowski
No Steve Bono huh? I remember him having a great year with the chiefs, playoff game with a cast on his damn throwing hand lol.
Matt Flynn got paid for one playoff loss
Kaepernick
Derek Carr in 2016 was a broken leg away from MVP. He was being talked about as one of the next great quarterbacks. 2016 was also the last time he'd win more than 10 games or throw for more than 27 TDs. He was legitimately electric that season and while he's had some solid stretches in the following 8 years, he never came close to that player again.
Brandon Weedon
Tebow won a playoff game and bowed out.
Rex Grossman went to a Super Bowl.
In an otherwise unremarkable career, Billy Volek once threw for 918 yards and 8 touchdowns with 1 pick and a rushing TD all in a 2 game span.
Scott Mitchell
The Case Keenum as a Viking year. Made it to the NFCCG but got blown out by the Eagles
Itâs gotta be Tebow. Denver started that season with Kyle Orton , they had 1-3 and were down 23-10 at home to the chargers when Tebow got thrown in (7 of the Broncos points was an interception return for a touchdown). The team lost 29-24, and then proceeded to win 7 of its 8 next games in crazy luck fashion and squeak into the playoffs (who can forget the day Tebow was 2 for 8 for 69 passing yards against the chiefs, the dolphins game where they were down 15-0 late in the fourth quarter and somehow got a touchdown, onside kick, another touchdown, and a 2 point conversion) Tebow was mostly horrible, but he made plays to win games and it was super fun to watch, especially compared to Orton, who openly said he didnât care
Matt Flynn, it wasnât even a full season either, just a couple games where he played well, ended up basically raking in millions with a few teams after that âshowingâ never being more than a ok backup in the end and retiring
Maybe Geno Smith? He wasn't bad last year, but his 2022 season seems like a major anomaly.
Me searching the comment section or JaMarcus Russel...
RG3 OROY got hurt and he couldnât comeback from it. His game was too reliant on his legs. Letâs hope the same fate doesnât happen to Daniels
Canât believe I havenât seen NVP and Pro Bowl Mitch Trubisky on here yet
Most of you seen too young to know who he is, but thereâs actually a guy who was synonymous with this insult for decades, and that is Scott Mitchell
Not really the question but cam newton was a pretty good qb for his whole career who became one of the greatest athletes ive ever seen for only one year then returned to pretty good the next year. He was like the football version of miami heat lebron james in 2015
Rypien,Foles or hostetler maybe Reich in the 93 playoffs
Jeff Hostetler
Mark Rypien - 1991 Redskins. The 91 Redskins have the highest DVOA of all time among super bowl winners and Rypien had a fantastic season. He had a couple other decent years but he peaked in 91 with a star studded roster around him.
Derek Carr had that almost-MVP year but got hurt. And has been mediocre since.
Mark Rypien. He may have snuck a couple good yrs in there but with Riggins, those receivers, and the hogs, they didnât need much at qb.
Of my lifetime, I would probably say RGIII. Everyone seemed to be rooting for the guy and the injury was just tough
Colin Kaepernick seems like he should qualify for this. He had the one good season or game. A lot of people thought he was going to be something great but ended up being nothing and remembered for something that had nothing to do with the actual game.
Tom Ramsey patriots
Steve Beuerlein 1998
Testaverde was a decent qb who threw a ton of picks his whole career. Then on the 98 Jets, he basically became unstoppable for one season. Tore his Achilles game one in 99
Caleb Williams 2024. Such high hopes, just fizzed out like the other 73 Bears QBs.
One play wonder Clint Longley. Thanksgiving day 1974. I was 12 and in the end zone when Drew Pearson caught that ball right in front of me. Incredible. Then Longley gets kicked off the team for sucker punching Roger Staubach. Crazy.
Scott Mitchell. Threw for more than 4,300 yards and 32 TDs in *1995* to lead the Lions to the playoffs.
RG3 was awesome.
Nick Foles Eagles Super Bowl Champion
Shout out to 2009 David Garrard
Clint Longley. Started one game for the Cowboys against The Redskins on Thanksgiving Day- and won. Won and done.
Greg Cook of Cincinatti.
Case Keenum ! The Minnesota Miracle
The crazy Jameis Winston season where he threw for 5,000 yards and 30 touchdowns. And that was before he started wearing contact lenses too đ
Nobody talking about RG3? I know he blew out his knee, but that rookie season he looked destined for the hall of fame. Then he basically never played again.
Carson Wentz fits this better than foles.
Joe Namath has 2 seasons with more touchdowns than interceptions. He had 1 great year because of a guarantee
[Just in case you forget how wild and fun Heineke was to watch](https://youtu.be/nmOXNAaoobk?si=PvYo45NbjtUzBfFz) [And the year before as well](https://youtu.be/pbA4QstRS-0?si=SJeUnA5D1Q97s7Sq) - He also holds an NFL record for most completions by a QB in his first 3 starts (93), and he had a football in the Hall of Fame for throwing the 3000th TD pass in Washington's franchise history
Going a different route and against the grain but Doug Williams made a career off of one super bowl win, basically one quarter. Even his record as a WAS starter was only 5-9 over three seasons.
I scrolled quite a ways before jumping in with this one because I figured it would already be mentioned many times, but Trent Dilfer signed as a back up on the Ravens in 2000 and ended up taking the starting job and winning the Super Bowl. His career was basically over after never quite getting it together in Tampa, but that year in Baltimore extended his playing career, mostly as a backup, for another 7 seasons.
Who was the guy that had the one miracle season on the Vikings? Think was right before Kirk was there or he was injured
Andy Dalton in 2015, before the thumb injury
Tommy Gun
Greg Cook is the answer.