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Top 5 Countdown of Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers QBs · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Today, we are diving headfirst into what is arguably the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate positional rivalry in NFL history, the Chicago Bears versus
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. We're talking about two of the
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  Speaker 1: absolute oldest, most legendary franchises clashing on the gridiron for
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  Speaker 1: over a century.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. While these two teams share the
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  Speaker 2: same division, play in the exact same freezing Midwest weather,
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  Speaker 2: and have battled out year after year, the quarterback position
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  Speaker 2: reveals this insanely massive historical contrast between them. Honestly, it's
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  Speaker 2: one position, but it tells two completely different stories. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to count down the top five passers in
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  Speaker 2: Bear's history right up against the top five and Packers history.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers were about to unpack show exactly how Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay became totally synonymous with legendary quarterback play while Chicago
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  Speaker 2: built its terrifying reputation on bone crushing defenses and punishing
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  Speaker 2: running games. Let's get into it. We're starting off our
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  Speaker 2: countdown at number five. This is Mitchell Trubisky taking on
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  Speaker 2: Tobin wrote the statistical gap start. It's off relatively small here,
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  Speaker 2: but you're going to see a clear trend established right
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  Speaker 2: out of the gate. Okay, So, Mitchell Trubisky spent four
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  Speaker 2: seasons as Chicago's starter. He definitely had his ups and downs, right,
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  Speaker 2: but he did lead the Bears to two playoff appearances,
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  Speaker 2: grabbed an NFC North title in twenty eighteen, and finished
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  Speaker 2: his time there with just over ten thoy six hundred
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  Speaker 2: passing yards. But then you look at Green Bay's Tobin wrote,
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  Speaker 2: this guy was playing in the nineteen fifties, way before
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  Speaker 2: the legendary Vince Lombardierra even started, and he still narrowly
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  Speaker 2: edges out Trubisky with over eleven five hundred yards. Think
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  Speaker 2: about that for a second. The Packers' fifth place passer
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  Speaker 2: from over half a century ago threw from more yards
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  Speaker 2: than Chicago's modern fifth place leader. Crazy all right, Moving
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  Speaker 2: on to number four, where the gap is about to
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  Speaker 2: get significantly wider. This one is really a battle of
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  Speaker 2: fame versus sheer aerial production. Jim McMahon up against Lynn Dickey. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Jim McMahon obviously brought that legendary nineteen eighty five Souper
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  Speaker 2: Bowl championship to Chicago. He had the swagger, the toughness,
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  Speaker 2: the unbelievable leadership. But because of injuries, his career passing
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  Speaker 2: yards capped out at just over eleven two hundred yards. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Lynn Dickey was over in Green Bay quietly putting together
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  Speaker 2: one of the best passing careers in their history, racking
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  Speaker 2: up over twenty one thousand, three hundred yards. He literally
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  Speaker 2: almost doubled McMahon's production. So while Chicago gets the iconic
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  Speaker 2: championship legacy with McMahon purely through the air, it simply
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  Speaker 2: wasn't close hitting the number three spot. This disparity really
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  Speaker 2: starts to escalate. We are officially introducing our first true
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  Speaker 2: all time legend to the mix, Jim Harbaugh, going toe
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  Speaker 2: to toe with Bart Starr. Long before Jim Harbaugh was
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  Speaker 2: the incredibly recognizable head coach we know today, he was
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  Speaker 2: under center for Chicago in the nineties, throwing for a
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  Speaker 2: respectable eleven five hundred plus yards and leading them to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. But then you have Packers icon Bart's Starr
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  Speaker 2: star more than doubled Harbaugh's production with nearly twenty five
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  Speaker 2: thousand yards. And these weren't empty stats either. Star secured
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  Speaker 2: five NFL championships and two Super Bowl MVPs, firmly cementing
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  Speaker 2: himself as one of the ultimate winners in football history. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: brace yourselves, because as we enter the top two, this
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  Speaker 2: explainer shifts from a fun comparison into an absolute historic
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  Speaker 2: statistical chasm. These next numbers are a massive testament to
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  Speaker 2: how differently these franchises operated. At number two, we've got
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  Speaker 2: Chicago's nineteen forties pioneer Sid Luckman matched up against the
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  Speaker 2: modern statistical brilliance of Aaron Rodgers. Now give Luckman his due.
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  Speaker 2: He literally revolutionized the forward pass in his era, snagged
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  Speaker 2: four NFL championships, and his fourteen six hundred ish yards
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  Speaker 2: stood as the Bears franchise record for decades. But Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he just absolutely dominates this spot. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: more than four times as many yards as Luckman, throwing
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  Speaker 2: for nearly sixty thousand yards just for Green Bay. Add
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  Speaker 2: in four MVP awards, a Super Bowl ring, a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl MVP, and one of the lowest interception rates we've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. The man was an absolute machine. Finally we've
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  Speaker 2: reached number one. It's Jay Cutler, Chicago's all time passing leader,
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  Speaker 2: going head to head with the ultimate Packers iron man himself,
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  Speaker 2: Brett Farv. Cutler had a huge arm, played eight seasons
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago and holds the Bears all time record with
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  Speaker 2: a bit over twenty three tho four hundred yards. But
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  Speaker 2: then there's Brett Farv. Farv nearly tripled Cutler's franchise best total,
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  Speaker 2: racking up in astonishing sixty one, six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: five passing yards to comfortably take the number one spot
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  Speaker 2: in this rivalry. He didn't just win the spot, though,
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  Speaker 2: he took home three consecutive NFL MVP Awards, a Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl ring, and built a legacy on sheer iron man
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  Speaker 2: durability that makes him one of the toughest players to
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  Speaker 2: ever touch a football. Let's just step back for a second.
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  Speaker 2: I want to synthesize all this data because the sheer,
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  Speaker 2: staggering magnitude of this historical disparity is wild. We really
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  Speaker 2: need to look at these top fives as a whole
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  Speaker 2: to grasp it. When you lay these top fives out
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  Speaker 2: side by side, that cavernous gap becomes impossible to ignore.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Jay Cutler is Chicago's all time passing leader
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  Speaker 2: right his twenty three four hundred and forty three yards
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't even rank in the top three for Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's really visualize the absolute absurdity of this rivalry with
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  Speaker 2: one massive number. Sixty one thousand, six hundred and fifty five.
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  Speaker 2: That's Brett Farvre's passing yarded. Sure, but in the context
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  Speaker 2: of this Chicago Green Bay dynamic, it represents something much
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  Speaker 2: much wilder. Get this, Brett Farv alone through for more
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  Speaker 2: passing yards than the Bear's top three all time passers combined. Literally,
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  Speaker 2: if you take the entire Chicago career yardage of Jake Cutler,
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  Speaker 2: Sid Luckman and Jim Harbaugh and smash them all together,
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  Speaker 2: it is still not enough to eclipse what Brett Farv
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  Speaker 2: did during his time in Green Bay. No way, right.
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  Speaker 2: And if that doesn't blow your mind, how about this.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers alone threw for more than four times the
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  Speaker 2: career yardage of Chicago's second leading passer, Sid Luckman. It is,
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  Speaker 2: without a doubt, one of the most remarkable, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're a Bears fan, painfully well known statistical gaps in
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  Speaker 2: NFL history. Chicago's endless search for a true franchise quarterback
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  Speaker 2: has basically become a running joke at this point. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the really crucial takeaway from all this. This massive
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  Speaker 2: statistical gap perfectly illustrates two iconic but entirely different approaches
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  Speaker 2: to building a football legacy. The Packers built their identity
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  Speaker 2: around this incredible lineage of Hall of Fame quarterbacks. The Bears,
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  Speaker 2: they forged our identity in the trenches with legendary, terrifying defenses,
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  Speaker 2: dominant run games, and a gritty, championship caliber style that
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  Speaker 2: just didn't rely on goudy passing numbers. Both of these
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  Speaker 2: approaches have produced unforgettable championship histories and moments that literally
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  Speaker 2: defined the sport, which brings me to an incredibly tough
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  Speaker 2: question for you to chew on. If you were building
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  Speaker 2: a franchise totally from the ground up, which side of
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  Speaker 2: this historic rivalry would you choose? Thinking about these vastly
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  Speaker 2: different styles, does having a Hall of Fame quarterback like
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  Speaker 2: Farvver Rogers make the Packers the undisputed greater team order
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  Speaker 2: to Chicago's legendary nineteen eighty five defense make you forget
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  Speaker 2: about the passing stats entirely? Who really is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the history of this rivalry? Let us know
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  Speaker 2: what you think in the comments, and keep exploring to
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  Speaker 2: uncover more fascinating stories. Behind the stats. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 2: me on this explainer today and I'll catch you next time.