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Originally Posted by offiss
He was perpared to let Rypien go as well, only an offensive line that was impossible to penetrate saved Rypien our super bowl year, it's awfully nice to drop back and stand around until someone comes open without the worry that a defender will be remotly near you, because that was the case for Rypien, we were on pace to set the all time NFL record for least amount of sacks that season until we hit the Eagle game late in the year. He never did anything remotly significant before or after that SB season.
Perhaps gibbs could have reavaluated Humphries and had given him a little more of a chance to develope as the Chargers did, yes we won a super bowl with Rypien, but we were in the running to win another the following season and Rypien was pretty much done. As for Humphries? He continued to outshine Rypien in San Diego with a less talented team than we had, and was able to get them to the SB. It would have been interesting to see how he panned out behind that line from the 91' team.
Basically Rypien was a below average QB who was put into one of the most ideal circumstances that a QB could ever ask for, to his credit he took advantage of it for 1 season, but that was it, there were plenty of QB's in the league at the time who could have won a SB for us that year. Rypien was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
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Even if you take away Rypien's best season in '91, In 1989 Rypien threw for 3768 yards with 22 TD's and 13 INT's, which is still far better than Humphries best year.
I don't think you're giving enough credit to Ryp, he was a pretty solid starter for a 4 year stretch.
Humpries was solid as well, but I don't see anything that made him head and shoulders above Rypien as you're trying to say.