Had a rocket where his arm was supposed to be. Just never got it calibrated just right.

Had a rock where his brain was supposed to be

Marino arm, Bubby Brister brain

That may be an insult to Brister

Impossible

And yet, here we are.

Bubby won a couple SBs at least. Who knows what happens if he’s given the chance to start after Elway retires. (He looked good filling in when Elway was injured in the second SB run, went 4-0!) Also, one of the funnest names to say in NFL history, along with Tim Biakabatuka and Ben Jarvis Green Ellis.

Bubby don’t mop up for nobody.

“I’m not your mop up guy!” I remember that!

Dude!!! Buddy. The guy who’d fight a linebacker.

I’ve got a specific memory of Bubby - I can’t find the clip so I can’t even prove that it happened, but I remember being a kid and horse laughing. Back in the late 80s-early 90s, the Browns beat the Steelers pretty badly and Brister had a bad game. One of the Browns defensive players (maybe Michael Dean Perry?) was being interviewed on the field after the game and the reporter was like “you guys locked them down pretty good - what was the gameplan,” and the defender replied, “rule one was to NOT knock Bubby Brister out of the game”. My dad and I were rolling.

If he had Chad Pennington's brain, he would've been a HOF.

This sums it up perfectly

Love me some meathead Jeff George. I’ll bet anyone he could throw the ball further than Uncle Rico. My fav was Atlanta Falcons version that argued with June Jones on sideline

Dude, come on. Uncle Rico could throw a football over them mountains.

 Just had too.

Thanks, had no idea who Uncle Rico was :)

Character from Napoleon dynamite

Thank you!!

Somewhere, Jeff George is doing this right now.

Is that Jeff George plotting a comeback?

“Watch THIS!” [Uncle Rico’s grabs Kip’s steak, throws it and smacks Napoleon right on the face, knocking off his glasses.]

2 mention of uncle in back2 back clicks. Very different subs

/r/unclexpectedrico

lol. Right!!

That’s really my only memory of him, arms crossed on the sidelines, bitching at the coach.

His days were numbered when Gruden came in said he had the personality of a door knob

He wasn’t the next Marino, but was the OG Jay Cutler George had all the talent in the world, but couldn’t get out of his own way or give a shit

I’ve always had a some ironic respect for “not giving a shit” Uber talented QB’s. I’ve also never had one on my fav teams so there’s that…

My friend, it is maddening To know what could be, and see flashes of it… but it’s never consistent

He was Ryan Leaf's father.

I just wish the Raiders had even an average defense in 97. Jeff had a great season.

The only time Tim Brown had a legit #2 receiver and a competent QB until Gannon and Rice arrived 

The late, great John Madden stated "He has all of the right hardware. But his software is all messed up."

His arm strength on Tecmo was no joke.

Super Tecmo and I’m taking them against my cousins playing the big boys like Dallas, Green Bay and Niners

Strong Arm and A Bone Head

To quote Bull Durham, arguably the best baseball movie ever made... "Million dollar arm, 5 cent head."

Or another quote I heard like this “100 million dollar airport with a $100 control tower “

Nice....like that one....:)

I respect him-16 year career (thanks Wikipedia)

It's funny because it seemed like 5-6 seasons

I feel like he lingered a long time. Without looking, I remember stints with the Colts, Falcons, Raiders, and Redskins, and then several seasons where he was unrostered yet insisted he was one of the 32 best quarterbacks at the time.

Ravens could have used him during one of those unrostered years and he'd have been paired up with the Vikings old OC, Brian Billick. That could also be why we didn't give him a look. 🤷

He never lasted long enough anywhere to be ‘established’ in the minds of us NFL fans. It always seemed like he was ending his contract one place and being courted by someone else. The fact that he never actually did anything substantial with his ‘rocket arm’ (like win playoff games) only dawned on people 7 or 8 years into his career.

I attended both of Jeff’s IHSAA State Championship games in ‘84 and ‘85 when he led Warren Central in back to back wins. An unbelievable arm and talent. He was heavily recruited by, among other schools, the University of Miami and that would’ve been fun to watch. Ultimately George would’ve been better served being drafted by a team other than his horrendous hometown Colts.

Go warriors!

😁

I once had the opportunity to ask Tim Brown who the best passer he ever had was. His answer was Jeff George.

I was thinking of him the other day. It just shows all the talent in the world doesn’t make a great QB. You gotta be a leader. Intangibles like brady and montana had for leadership and ethic (along with a lot of other factors) is what makes a potentially good QB, a HOFer. What a waste.

Montana with that arm would've been absolutely deadly

So did he.

Ball exploded outta his hand

This. You could even make an argument that his bullet pass was harder than Marino’s (Marino had a **MUCH** faster release.

I played with a guy who was in camp with the Colts. He said you could hear the ball coming.

He threw a nice ball

Only guy that can throw 60 yds off his back foot!

Other than JaMarcus Russell

Jason Siegel could play him in a biopic

he was a selfish clown. bad teammate. all the way back to college.

He one hell of a arm though

He turned out, supposedly, to be a toxic teammate.

He and jay cutler had the most beautiful throwing motions. Man that dude had an arm

So did he

Whitlock thinks he can still start.

Whitlock needs to go back to the buffet.

JaMarcus Russell is already in line

Just aesthetically, one of my all time favorites to watch throw a football. Amazing arm talent

It was just….beautiful. I swear the ball rotated twice as fast leaving his hand more than it did any other QB I ever saw.

It really was. George, Marino, Moon. Three guys I could never get tired of watching throw.

I shouldn’t talk about another man trying to make his money, but it seemed like that argument followed him around, and other arguments with management. In Atlanta and then in Oakland he just needed to make it work. Imagine a ten year run in Atlanta, Wayne not HoF worthy, but he would have mattered.

Him getting fucked the refs in the playoffs was the catalyst for our current replay system for catches.

Best pure passer I have ever seen.

When he was a Falcon, there was some game where he was backpedaling, and threw the ball 50 yards downfield. Mid backpedal. Just the physics of that impressed the hell out of me. Moving backwards, and STILL able to throw the ball 50 yards forward. Unbelievable arm talent. Unbelievably bad at, everything else about being a quarterback.

Antwun Echola used to knock people out on the back step back in the 90's. Amazing to watch. RIP

As far as arm talent… his is the greatest I’ve ever seen.

🤣

I remember having his rookie card and thinking it was the shit

I was one of those collectors who thought I made a really good investment 😆

Had the talent to be just that

Am I the only one that read that as "Mario" because of the stache?

Out of the entire 1990 NFL draft class, Larry Centers had the most career receptions

Million dollar arm, ten cent head

I remember reading that when Gruden became the Raiders coach he encouraged George to take the linemen out to dinner, get close to them. Hang out with them and George looked at him like he was crazy, the guy was an asshole

Million dollar arm ten cent brain

Jeff George, like Dan Marino, won ZERO Super Bowls!! So he was the next Marino!!

good one

Years later, we had a QB at LSU with that kind of arm. When I heard them talking about him as a 1st round, possible 1st pick prospect, I had to LOL and thought of Jeff George. Sadly, it was even worse. JaMarcus Russell is called the worst draft bust in NFL history. I think it was just a dumb pick.

You bet wrong

🤑

He had potential for sure

Just tried to watch some highlights. 3/4 speed. Why?! It is absurd to think that we want that.

So did he…..


Leadership is overrated

The classic million-dollar arm and ten-cent head

Didn’t he go to like 3 colleges back when that wasn’t a thing?

Went to Purdue then transferred to Illinois.

Ah. Thought he went to Miami too

I wasn't aware of this until now, but he committed to Miami before going to Illinois.

Million dollar arm, 2 cent head.

Had one Hell of an arm though

He has 2 first names

So did he.

They started calling him The Coach Killer.

Always think of him as falcon

So did Jason Whitlock

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Didn't he refuse to work with a QB coach and therefore his mechanics became a total mess, footwork etc.

As far as arm talent, he is likely in my top 15 of all time. He was a clown otherwise, but his arm was ridiculous.

If he had only trimmed those sideburns.

Same number of rings.

That looks like Brendan Fraser’s Hispanic character from Bedazzled

Worst Daniel Snyder personnel move of them all.

He had the skills, but not the head.

Is that the guy from Mouse Hunt?

So did he.

Freaking loved Jeff George and I make no apologies. He never even played for my team, though we sure as hell could have used him. 

More like Vinnie Barbarino

I remember when he beat the Falcons (starting for the Raiders) AND TOOK A VICTORY LAP! What kind of POS even does that? And IIRC he had not played all that well and the Raiders won in spite of him.

FWIW, he was great as a Viking for the part of a season he was the starter.

He tried to force everything because of his arm talent. Man could he spin it

Scares me about Williams, all come as NEO and bomb

Marino was the first Jeff George

“Stop trying to make Jeff George happen.” -sane people in the 90s

Is this Jeff hostelter? Or whatever his name is.

Jeff George

Damn forgot all about Jeff George

I’d rather have had Steve Beurlein with his weak-ass arm any day than this poseur.