Sam Darnold: Top 10 Super Bowl QB? Matt Verderame Joins to Rank the Best

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Seattle Public Works are still cleaning up the confetti. The off season is officially here and we're left with measuring up how Sam Darnold ranks among the best. Is he really the GEQBUS? We invite Sports Illustrated's resident football nerd, Matt Verderame, on the show to give us his list. It's a show for true football fans. Give a listen. And please remember to subscribe. Become a Football American! AUDIO Football America! is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/football-america/id1831757512 Follow us: Dave Dameshek: https://x.com/dameshek Matt Verderame: https://x.com/MattVerderame Host: Dave Dameshek Guests: Matt Verderame Team: Gino Fuentes, Ethan Bedowsky Director: Danny Benitez Senior Producers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Executive Producer: Soup Campbell Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And hey, we're not done. We're coming back next year. Yeah. Sheesh, Leonard Williams,
0:07.6	why are you doing that, man? Can you just enjoy the herein now? I don't know. I guess declaring
0:11.9	we ain't done yet is a weird newish tradition, as is the hyperbole around how good the team
0:16.7	that just won is compared to all the other past winners. But fine, I'll play ball. Where do the 25
0:22.2	Hawks rank among Super Bowl champs? Well, to start behind the 2013 Seahawks, the 1973 Dolphins,
0:29.4	who are ticked better than the undefeated 72 Finns, the 77 Cowboys, the 2016 Pats, and the
0:34.7	odd eight Steelers who had one of several defenses this century that was
0:38.5	better than the 25 Hawks.
0:40.2	But none of those teams are even in the top 10.
0:43.0	Would you like to know who is good?
0:45.5	At number 10, the 2019 Chiefs, who only won 12 regular season games, but in the postseason
0:51.1	after D. Ford lined up offside, K.C. was down 24 to the Texan, with 10 minutes left in the second quarter before rallying to go up 28-24 by halftime. Then down 10 to the Titans, early in the title game before rallying to blow them out, and down 10 late to the Niners in the Super Bowl before rallying to win by 11. And by the end of it, Alma Holmes was already an all-time great.
1:11.2	At number nine, the 17 Eagles.
1:13.8	Poor Carson Wentz.
1:15.3	Not literally, of course, he's quite well off as it happens, but spiritually, I mean,
1:19.2	he was going to win the MVP, probably the Lombardi, too.
1:22.7	Philly went 13 and 3, and in Super Bowl 52, beat the Patriots with their backup QB. Not that that should make you feel bad about yourself, Jared Stidham. At number 8, the 84-9ers. Walsh's crew went 15 and 1 and killed Marino's Dolphins, 3816 in the Super Bowl. I could have put this team up a little higher, but we'll get to another Montana-led team in a sec, and that one had
1:44.7	Jerry Rice on it.
1:45.7	Meantime, at number seven, the 85 Bears who went 15-in-one with the most iconic defense ever.
1:51.7	They allow just 12.4 points per game and pitch back-to-back playoff shoutouts before shaming the
1:57.0	Pats 4610 in XX.
1:59.7	Super as they were, though, I do think they dodged a bullet by not having
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