QB's in the Superbowl by draft position...

Im tired of Bills fans wanting to wait to draft a QB. If Bradford OR Clausen are at 9, we would be foolish to pass

or become adequate starters.
2000 – pennington
2001 – vick
2002 – carr, harrington, ramsey
2003 – palmer, leftwich, boller, grossman
2004 – eli, rivers, big ben, JP losman
2005 – smith, rodgers, campbell
2006 – young, leinart
2007 – russel, quinn

This QB class is weak – see 2002 class above where 2 teams in desperate need in top 5 reached on Carr and Harrington. 2003 wasn’t much better. Only 3 of 20 of QBs picked in RD between 2000-2007 have made SB

IMHO, Clausen and Bradford are not franchise QBs so if we don’t get either, I would be ok. None of the guys coming out look like the big 3 in 2004.

Made me want to crunch some numbers:
44 Super Bowls = 88 total “starts” in the big game. 53 of these have been accomplished by a mere 18 QB’s in the 43 year history of the league. 6 QB’s – Staubach, Bradshaw, Montana, Elway, Kelly and Brady account for nearly half of that with 25 appearances between them. Of those 18, only 8 were drafted in the first round. Tom Brady and Kurt Warner, 6th round and Undrafted – account for 7 themselves.
Roughly 14 “starts” were posted by QB’s I’d consider to have had pretty good careers, ranging from Billy Kilmer and Ken Stabler to Steve McNair and Donovan McNabb – yet never reached the big game again.
Roughly 16 “starts” were posted by QB’s I’d consider to be marginal, injury replacements, or head shakers how they got there in the first place, from Joe Kapp and David Woodley, to Trent Dilfer and Rex Grossman.
I’m not factoring in whether they won the SB or not – sadly, Mark Rypien won one and was never heard from again, while Kenny Anderson lost one, and I’m wondering why he isn’t in the HOF.
I think the most interesting thing this brings light to is how the league has changed. Starr, Dawson, Staubach, Tarkenton had been in the league for 10 plus years before winning titles. Most often with the same team. Different game at that time.. The pre free agency of the 70-90’s saw dominant teams there were able to stay together: Stillers, Dolphins, Raiders, Cowboys, Niners and to a lesser extent the Patriots this decade.
The moral of this story, imo – if you can get a truly elite talent at QB – a la Manning, Elway or Kelly – you damn well grab them. But, if not, you find another way to skin the pigskin.
For every one of these 18 multiple SB winners thare are 5 1st round catastrophes a la David Klinger, Andre Ware, Akili Smith, Tim Couch, JP Losman, Heath Shuler, Jim Druckenmiller, Cade McNown, Ryan Leaf, Todd Marinovich, Patrick Ramsey, Kyle Bollar, Jemarcus Russell, Alex Smith………. on and on and on and on.
I don’t see a truly “elite” QB talent in this draft. Of course I’m a Hawkeye homer, so I say take Bulaga if he’s there, build a strong O line, and run the ball.

I started it this morning and finished it this afternoon without realizing that you had posted something quite similar to mine. My conclusion is quite clear, the majority of superbowls have been won by Round 1 QBs and if either Claussen or Bradford were to fall to us at #9, we should pull the trigger.

BTW, how do you insert tables like that?

I know he had a career year, but the Bills should have had an answer for him. He was a 1-trick pony.