Top 15 Michigan QB's of All-time

especially about Bo's last game. ugh

One QB from the 1920s, one from the 1960s, and the rest from the 1970s on.  I wish if they were going to do something like this, they would do more historical research.  I realize the first 2-3 decades it's difficult to get detailed information on players, but that should still leave more than just focusing on the recent past. 

Ricky Leach is my favorite M player of all ttme

This list ranked him as the greatest M QB of all time

Therefore the list is perfect in every way possible and the author is obviously a brilliant historian.

the lion share of these picks might make sense. But the list is hardly exclusive or all-inclusive, in part because the list fails to define the age or the game these quarterbacks were required to play to advance their teams and offense.

Comparing the Bo qbs and the Mo qbs and the Carr qbs isn't even fair when your making out the list unless you make the criteria about wins and leadership. Then you might have to alter the list by noting,  for example, by saying that the best qbs at Michigan were those who won under all circumstances.

Leach, Firedman, Taylor, Franklin and Harbaugh were qbs of the winningest Michigan teams in their time. Plus these guys played a lot. If you want to judge them by their team's winning percentage in the period they played regardless of their production from that position, that is appropriate. Griese was the best qb at Michigan if you only take in account winning a national championship. Unless you consider that Friedman was nearly perfect over his time at Michigan.

But in the end, even that isn't a fair yardstick, because in each case the player was in charge of a team that never had the same atrributes, wasn't always asked to carry the offensive workload of scoring efficiency, which is probably a more precise way of judging effectiveness because as noted qbs in the earlier decades weren't throwing the ball much if any.

This is about creating debate, however. And we all have our favorites. And the qb debate at Michigan is always heated, no more so than during the Carr era when his line of starting qbs all were massively productive and all had shots in the NFL.

I mean Collins, who isn't even listed, along with Grbac and Timberlake had better pro cereers than Henson who didn't even graduate from Michigan before leaving. Brady obviously is the greatest Michigan product to ever play in the NFL but Denard was perhaps the most exciting player to ever put on the Maize and Blue at his position with the ability to score on any play from anywhere on the field.

Alright, I know this is silly, but hate how Brady is shown in his Patriots gear. I get the fact that he became elite while in the NFL, but this list is about Michigan quarterbacks and his picture should of his being in Michigan gear.

1.  Error in second word ("it's")

2.  Don't do slideshows

I came of age as a Michigan fan in the mid 70's.  Anything better than hearing Ufer refer to Rick Leach as "the guts and glue of the Maize and Blue!"  

Think of Dennis Franklin's record and the fact he never was able to play in a bowl game!

Denard is always going to be underrated.  However, he was the primary reason Michigan football remained relevant in the dark Rich Rod, Brady and DB years.  

Thanks for sharing.  I know you warned of the format/display.  If I  knew ahead of time that it was a slideshow, I would not have clicked this link.

On his weekly appearance on WEEI (93.7 Sports Radio in Boston) Brady was asked if he's planning a repeat visit to AA while the Pats are in-town this week for the scrimmage with the Lions.  Said he hasn't received the schedule yet, but if he can, would like to make the trip over with some teammates.