Quick now. What names jump into your head if I ask you to rattle off the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time? Tom Brady? Joe Montana? Peyton Manning? Bart Starr? Johnny Unitas?
Chances are, you didn’t come up with names like Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, Dan Fouts, Vinny Testaverde or Boomer Esiason. Why not? What do those guys all have in common? Their legacies all suffer from what you could call Dan Marino syndrome. They are great quarterbacks who never won a Super Bowl.
Even signal callers who have just one Super Bowl title on their resume’s, like Drew Brees, Joe Theisman, Steve Young and Ken Stabler, are seldom mentioned as being among the all time greats.