Kurt Warner Approaching Brady/Montana Levels
NFL January 18th. 2009, 6:23pm
Before you roll your eyes, shake your head and scream at your monitor, consider that in 10 postseason games, Warner is 8-2 with 23 TD, 12 INT and one Super Bowl title. He’ll never catch Brady or Montana in Super Bowl wins, but his efficiency in postseason games is really impressive. For context, Montana went 16-8 in 24 postseason games while Brady has gone 14-3. Terry Bradshaw is 14-5 in his career in the postseason.
Of this group of quarterbacks, Warner is the only quarterback to average at least two touchdowns per postseason game. If you’re wondering, Aikman had 23 touchdowns in 15 postseason games (and three rings) while John Elway had 27 passing touchdowns in 21 games (he also had 7 rushing scores). Favre and Marino both averaged less than two touchdowns per game as well. Bottom line is that Warner has earned a Hall of Fame bid with this postseason run.
Perhaps even more amazing is that Warner has averaged just 11 starts per season in his career, including the playoffs. Three Super Bowl appearances and 23 postseason touchdowns in a “shortened career” is awesome. And while we’re (I’m) comparing Warner’s postseason successes with Joe Montana, Larry Fitzgerald surpassed Jerry Rice for most receiving yards in a single postseason.
On to the AFC Title Game …
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January 18th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
But if you’re going to play that game, you should also mention the injuries and multiple benchings for poor play that led to that “shortened” career. It’s only fair to tell both sides of the tale.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Come on now…. Brady is not in Montana’s league…
January 18th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
As many games as Warner wins though I think his reputation, rightly so, will be tainted all of the games hes cost his teams with his turnovers, ala the Jets game this year. It also helps that he’s always had great receivers. Fitzgerald could make JP Losman look good.
/bills fan
January 18th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
QB position is overrated anyways, Eli Manning was able to win a Superbowl for gods sake.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I know that postseason play is what QB’s, rightly or wrongly, are ultimately judged upon, but it’s also a pretty small sample size. 10 games, really? I think Warner should be in the hall of fame, but Montana and Brady will both be in the top five qb’s to ever play the game. Warner’s had some dogshit years/games. Complete dogshit.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Bradshaw was a disaster at the mic.
english teachers everywhere shuddered when he said, three times, ‘where’s adrian wilson at?’
matt leinart will have a word with bradshaw for his, ‘do you want this guy back next year?’
kurt warner will have as many SB titles, maybe, as John Elway. two more than Marino. crazy world, this NFL.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Who gives a shit what Matt Leinart has to say about anything? Nobody.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Oy, three hours of Phil Simms “analyzing.” Awesome. At least there’s one good thing about the end of football season.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
GET READY FOR SOME PHIL-OSOPHY!
January 18th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
So Kate Beckinsale’s not in this Underworld? What is it, a prequel or something? Never saw the second one so perhaps I’m out of the loop.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Phil Simms makes Jim Nantz entertaining by comparison.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Prequel
January 18th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I feel bad for anyone who has to listen to the steelers/ravens game on the radio. Dennis Green should not be allowed to do radio.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Bill Bidwell is still an asshole regardless of this win.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Hmm…I think I’ll pass. I hope Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen are both getting killer paydays for that shit. But who am I kidding, it’ll no doubt do at least $25 million next weekend.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Dennis Green is a freaking motormouth with a bad voice to boot.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
‘There’s no wind factor here tonight’
*cut to shot of HUGE flag blowing in the wind*
*cut to ball falling off the tee*
Nope. No wind.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
took the steelers -6.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Okay, raise your hand if you went to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop this weekend? I know some of you had to…$30 million? Cripes.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Mole -
Hahaha. Thought the same.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
To be fair to Montana, those stats are a bit misleading because the 49ers were so dominant that they usually had a first-round bye in the playoffs, so he didn’t rack up as many first round wins and pad his stats against inferior opponents. Nothing against Warner, of course, just wanted to point that out.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
WOOO
January 18th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
hines ward is a stud
great pass by big ben.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
mall cop … wow, i wouldn’t go see that for under $100. i can think of, off the top of my head, 183 things to do instead of wasting 90 mins of my life
January 18th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Is it just me, or does Ed Reed get in a lot of on-field altercations?
January 18th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Okay, raise your hand if you went to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop this weekend? I know some of you had to…$30 million? Cripes.
that guy has to be the biggest douchebag ever to star in a movie.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Kid’s movie I guess. Kids are stupid, inferior creatures.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Howie sayz that if your steering wheel is heated then you are a fag.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
If you drive a truck and aren’t a construction worker, you probably are a fag anyways.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
no mention at all made of Reed trying to make a play on the big hines ward play. he tried to go for the ball, took a bad angle, and totally missed.
i like reed as much as the next guy, but he blew that one.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Warner’s already in limited company being only the third QB to start for two teams in the SB. if he wins, he’s in but probably not first ballot. His gaudy post season stats and third highest regular season career passer rating, two time league MVP and SB MVP gets in.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
i think parker is afraid to play the ravens. he seems timid everytime he hits that hole.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Willie up the middle isn’t working, so I expect them to run that play about ten more times. With good play calling and one more good lineman, this team would have been so much better.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
OH MAN FLACCO IS SO GOOD
January 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
flacco with a bad decision under duress there
January 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
parker, wtf happened there? did he trip on the frozen tundra?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Jesus christ Willie. Terrible.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
willie parker is a gigantic pussy. he was worried about getting hit. gimmie a break.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
He isn’t a receiving back, he doesn’t know what he is doing in that situation.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
(not disagreeing with you)
January 18th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Fucking Guineas, this Verizon commercial is going to piss me off every time I see it. I’m paying my bill late this month just to spite you.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
he seems timid everytime he hits that hole.
That’s what she said. You knew it was coming…
January 18th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Heldover -
Bam!
January 18th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
they better pray ward comes back, because Big Ben has basically no other options as a possession receiver outside of Heath Miller
did Holmes really catch that?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Hahahaha another oh so close Santonio goal line play. What a throw!
January 18th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
TD, ground knocked the ball out.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
ground caused?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
How is that not a catch? Isn’t that always a catch when they’re stretching out? That’s a football move.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
oh man, Pitt kinda got fucked there
January 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Bad call
January 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
He took two steps. HORRIBLE
January 18th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
i’d keep picking on frank walker
lotta contact with those arms …
January 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
ben took a serious hit there. tough to stand in, i’ll give him credit for that
January 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
yea, that was a bad call.
As a Bengals fan, I do not feel bad for Ward. My only disappointment is he wasn’t leveled by Ray Lewis when he wasn’t looking.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
i hate the steelers but I still don’t see how that wasn’t a touchdown
January 18th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
oh god, another bitter benglas fan just because Heinz Ward broke Keith River’s jaw with a clean hit.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Good to know holding will not be called on the Ravens line today.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I disliked Ward before that play. He is a dirty player.
Also, is Phil drunk or have his eyes frozen like the daughter in Christmas Vacation?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
*slams head on desk*
January 18th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
this quarter is taking forever, huh?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
TBL, I think what you are experiencing is the NFL playoffs.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
and willie parker that pussy coughs it up.
im sorry, but i’d go with the backup. parker is running like a scared deer out there. ray lewis just flipped him like a doll.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
How much would it take to get LJ away from the Chiefs? Willie is killing this team.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I think it might only require a phone inquiry to get LJ from the Chiefs. A thank you note would also be appreciated.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I hope they get fucked on this spot and can’t challenge it.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
god Phil Simms is horrible…
January 18th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
There is just no emotion in these announcers.
So does this Lebron guy play a sport or something? I think he’s a marketing exec or something, but with his size he could at least play basketball.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Lebron does not look like 270lbs in a football jersey.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Whoever wrote that happy go funday song deserves to get raped anally
January 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
PAYDIRT BITCH
January 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
What a dive by Holmes. sweet run.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Horrible missed tackle in there
January 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
wow, that was a helluva play by Big Ben to get that off, and then awesome moves by Holmes
how about heath miller, who was in the backfied picking up the blitz, and then getting downfield to block?
January 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Motherfucking ridiculously crazy play!
January 18th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
of course, cautious me, puts only 1/3 of the bet on the steelers that i did on the eagles. im too conservative to win big at gambling.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I may be pretentious for drinking a Stout, but at least I’m not a cocksmoker drinking horrid Budweiser.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I may be pretentious for drinking a Stout, but at least I’m not a cocksmoker drinking horrid Budweiser.
Either way, you would get your ass kicked in the More Taste League.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Flacco cant do a thing today
January 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
The only good Pilsner is a dead Pilsner. There has never been a woman alive that looks like the chick in the Budweiser commercial that actually drinks Bud. She is lacking the frizzy hair, acid-wash jeans, and Aerosmith tshirt.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
say that fast three times
Ray Rice the Rookie out of Rutgers
January 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
wow, ray rice just gave Farrior the business with that stiff arm.
poor former jet
January 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Maybe you aren’t pretentious, maybe you just like the taste of beer.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
i have always thought budweiser tasted like shit. might just be me.
i like a good corona or heinekin
January 18th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
sam adams, best beer alive.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
warsteiner trumps them all. worth every penny of $8.50.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
So, how out of hand does this have to get for the Ravens to pull Flacco? He looks lost out there.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
“giving him the business”, did you just channel Ben Dreith
January 18th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Great Lakes Brewery is the way to go and Sam Adams is never a bad choice.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Fat Tire
January 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
pull flacco for whom? troy smith?
January 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
There are kind of a lot of CSI’s, huh?
January 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I live in PA, so it is hard to find Flying Dog here because bottle shops tend to only carry really popular beers and I can’t find them in cases at the distributors. Otherwise, that is all I would drink. Flying Dog and Rogue are the best breweries, and they’re ACTUALLY American, unlike Bud and Miller
January 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Shhhhh….Tiger’s speaking!
January 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Sierra Nevada still does the trick for me.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Wow, Tiger has zero stage presence. None.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
This is gonna make the second half perfect`
January 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Flying Dog is good. If you like it, give Great Lakes a shot.
I’m not saying the Ravens are going to do it, but Flacco has been pretty awful. He looks a little overwhelmed right now.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
anchovies mole? get that shit out. the rest sounds dominant though.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Phil Simms is a blithering idiot.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Okay, Cam Cameron, let’s stop trying to run it over the A gap. Not really working.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
damn. a nice punt return leads to a TD and we have a ballgame. pitt was dominating, and now the cover is in jeopardy.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Don’t like the interference call at all. Refs keeping Baltimore in this one 100%. NFL is so crooked.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
410 straight extra points made sounds like an awful lot. I wish they’d give us something to compare it with. But even if you’re team scored four TD’s a game all season that’s 64 TD’s a year, so that’s almost seven years. Sounds impressive.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Dominos ordering system online is stellar, you can follow the progress of your order from start to finish. Fuck talking to someone on a phone.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Steelers are gonna blow this and we are going to have the lowest rated superbowl ever.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
It’s ordering system may be stellar, but its pizza is garbage.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I dunno, the longer Corey Ivy’s on the field the more I like the Steelers’ chances of throwing on the Ravens. Their pass d is markedly better when he’s not playing the nickel.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Largely agree, but my options are limited, I can’t stand Papa John’s sauce.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Couldn’t find a flag to throw on that one? The receiver hit the ground clearly the Steelers did something wrong.
My bitterness is rising with my BAC.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I just can’t see Flacco winning this game. Only way I see the Ravens pulling it out is Ben or Willie giving it away or the Ravens’ defense taking it.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
FUCKING ROOKIE
January 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
rookie drops TD. stay down and fake an injury, you nothing
January 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Wow. Huge rookie gaffe there. The eyes of Texas are shunning him right now.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
ben’s team is absolutely shitting all over his effort. pathetic.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
BOO THIS MAN
January 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
lol
love the boos as he stands up. sorry kid, you deserve it.
AND you cost your team a timeout for that faux injury.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Don’t think it should cost you a time out when the clock is already stopped, never liked that rule.
That wouldn’t have been Hines’ route anyways, and both Nate and Holmes have bad hands too, but jesus.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
yeah, it hurts a lot fucking more when you drop a TD.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
that was behind the receiver
January 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
That one is on Ben, but with that pressure, can’t really blame him. Holmes would’ve dropped it anyways.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Boy, they sure make ‘em soft in texas, don’t they?
Mike Williams (the O lineman, not the WR)
Ricky
VY
Michael Huff
The clown who just dropped that TD
/generalization’d
January 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
nice acting by the punter
January 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
and the oscar for acting goes to …. MITCH BURGER, Pittsburgh!
January 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Sweed earns a little bit of respect back from the crowd.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
sweed makes up for his miss with a devastating block on that CB who didnt see it coming.
ouch, that was loud!
January 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
WOW Limas that is how you win back the fans, man oh man that was brutal
January 18th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
sweed makes up for his miss with a devastating block on that CB who didnt see it coming.
ouch, that was loud!
Guess Nantz was right. Sweed’s injury was nothing more than a “bruised ego”
January 18th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Sweed knocked the shit out of Ivy. UT vs. OU
January 18th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
And that, folks, is what’s known as a brain bruise.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Ivy got knocked the fuck out
January 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Might have led with his helmet, but Ivy was not paying attention
January 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Clock management. Brilliant.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
gotta just throw that one OB, ben
bad mistake
January 18th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Harbaugh is euphoric over them not getting the spike in time. Well, glad he’s so confident.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Sweed costs them a TD then a FG. Helllllllo getting cut
January 18th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
steelers were denied a TD on the holmes “fumble”
and then there’s the sweed wide-open drop …
not to mention baltimore getting a freak TD after that long punt return.
this could easily be 24-0
January 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
This game has been really similar to last week’s so far. The longer Baltimore hangs around, the greater the chance they can steal it at the end. Flacco just looks completely rattled, though.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Every time I see Limas Sweed drop a pass I think about every time he did it at Texas. The guy made one big catch to beat Ohio State and everyone thinks he’s great. He’s never been that good a good WR (though he’s always been a good blocker).
January 18th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Marino: “Sling it, Ben! Sling it!”
January 18th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
so my movie spoiler post gets deleted from one thread but not the other? tbl? whats up with that? i have seen racist and hateful posts not be deleted from this site but a friggin movie spoiler one is? wow
January 18th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
just hold pittsburgh so i dont have to hear about ray lewis for the next 3 weeks pleeeeaaaassssse.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Bruce Willis was a ghost.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Dude it was probably a server error, the server sucks ass.
POLAHMAHLOO
January 18th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Flacco is really killing the Ravens right now. Tyler Palko is happy.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
so my movie spoiler post gets deleted from one thread but not the other? tbl? whats up with that?
the chick has a dick
/crying game’d
January 18th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Everyone gets AIDS.
/Kids’d
January 18th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
The dude goes down on her, she goes down on him, he fucks her from the front, he fucks her from the back, he cums on her tits.
/Every porn ever made’d
January 18th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
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