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Seahawks History: Krieg Lucky to be a Top-3 Much Less in the Ring of Honor

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Let me start by apologizing for my time between posts, but outside the renaming of the renamed stadium nothing has really been happening. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the 3 greatest wide receivers in Seahawks history. I would like to continue along that same train of thought but with quarterbacks this time. I will divide this up into 3 posts as it may end up being a little long if I run the whole thing at once. So here goes starting with number 3.

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JimKelly
JimKelly 5 pts

I have to disagree with you on Dave Krieg. He is Ring of Honor worthy because of the good he did for the Seahawks.

The big knock against Kreig were his turnovers, and that's a huge knock.

Drew Bledsoe and Krieg were similar, statistically speaking. Kreig did play for four more years, but he was a back up/fill-in starter for seven years. Whereas Bledsoe only had one year as a back up. Bledsoe also attempted over 1400 more passes then Krieg. Even with fewer pass attempts, Krieg had more touchdown passes, fewer interceptions, and a higher yards per attempt (7.2 to 6.6) than Bledsoe.

Even though Kreig and Bledsoe are similar in many ways statistically , both played in different "eras." Krieg was a transition qb from the dead ball era to today's qb. Bledsoe was a qb of today in every sense of the definition. In the late 80's Krieg had a qb rating of 86, and it was the FOURTH best of all-time. That has changed with the ways that teams pass now. Where that rating is now low, it was high until the early 90's.

I think that Sammy compared those qbs to Krieg because Pro Football Reference compared them (http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KrieDa00.htm).

I might disagree with your opinion, but I'm glad that you stated it.

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Sammy

As Seahawks fans, we’ve witnessed our team make it to exactly one Super Bowl in 35 years. We’ve seen a few almost-but-not-quite seasons, a whole lot of mediocrity and quite a few too many garbage years. We’ve seen only three steady QBs in those years, with too many Kelly Stoufferish guys in between. Krieg may have fumbled a lot, but he was a quality QB during a run-heavy era and he was successful, win-loss wise. His numbers are comparable to Phil Simms (except Simms played on superior teams), Drew Bledsoe, Jim Plunket and Len Dawson, and while those aren’t exactly Hall of Famers, they’re all considered historically “good”. Krieg was a big part of the early era of the franchise and I think you’re selling him short.

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Riley Moore

Bledsoe finished his career with 44,611 yards. Krieg 38,147. Those numbers are comparable except that Krieg played 5 more years than Bledsoe. Bledsoe also had three 4000 yard seasons. Krieg never threw for more than 3671 in a season.
Look I don't want my fan card revoked here, but I just think there should be a higher standard for the ROH, that's all.

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Sammy

I don't think you should have your fan card revoked. In fact, it's refreshing to NOT read gushing fan posts. Disagreement and not buying into superfan notions are good unless they turn into East Coast downer negativity. I just think Krieg's contributions to the team's history are pretty substantial, even if he's not Hall of Fame material.

I'm also a Padres fan, so I know something about low expectations and false hero worship. Hell, Steve Garvey's number was retired by the team because of ONE HR, and Dave Winfield's number was retired because the early part of his career was in SD. But they also retired Randy Jones' number because, like Krieg, he was a major contributor in the early years.

Hey, at least I didn't call you stupid like your buddy Andy. ;-)

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Riley Moore

Thanks Sammy. And Andy: I am not dumb, I'm just big boned.

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Andy

your stupidity staggers me !!!

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Riley Moore

Glad to have made an impact.

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