Rank the Decades SB Winners

If I were to rank them, I would do it based on teams that did the impossible. In which case, I would place the patriots class of 2001 as numero uno followed by Giants class of 2007. The patriots do live up to that Dark Knight quote.."you die a hero or live long enough to become the villain". I just read that Nolan is going to lead the rebirth of superman..anyways third would be the ravens, winning a superbowl without a QB is impressive.

4th. 2005 steelers

 

The 2000 Ravens were the best.

That defense got Trent f***ing Dilfer a ring.

Trent. F***ing. Dilfer.

 

The saints were lucky to get this far. The vikings out gained them by 200 yards. If it wasn't for stupid penalties, turnovers, and a lucky coin toss they don't even make it.

 

1. 01 Patriots
2. 03 Patriots
3. 04 Patriots
4. 05 Steelers
5. 08 Steelers
6. 06 Colts
7. 07 Giants
8. 02 Bucs
9. 00 Ravens
10. 09 Saints

As much as I hate the Patriots, have to give them the nod as that core group of players played in 4 Superbowls winning 3. The top 3 spots are a no-brainer.

For the same reason the Steelers were able to win 2 superbowls with that core group of players, although I do not think they were a particularly great team.

The Colts have been a great team the whole decade making 2 Superbowls winning 1. You have to have them next in line and with a win Sunday they would have jumped over the Steelers.

The Giants were just a great team that found lightning in a bottle and went on a historic run that year beating one of the best teams ever in one of the greatest games ever. They also took the Patriots to the wire in that season finale, so it was no fluke.

The Bucs and the Ravens were both great defensive teams, but severly challenged at the QB spot. Have to give the edge to the Bucs, because they had more offensive weapons and I would take Johnson over Dilfer anyday.

The Saints are the only team on this list that I think gets handled by every other team on it, 9 times out of 10. I think for the most part all of the other teams could beat each other up. I just can't put the Saints in that group.They had a great offense, but wasn't thrilled with their defense. They got blasted by the Cowboys and got lucky the seedings ended up the way they were or the Cowboys run them again. It took 5 turnovers, and many more mistakes/fumbles they recovered themselves, and winning the coinflip in OT to beat the Vikings at home. They pulled it out Sunday, which is all that matters, but they were just one of the weaker Superbowl winners I remember.

 

Trent Dilfer is the only QB to win a superbowl and next year get cut by his team, thats how you see that ravens defense being a beast in that superbowl

 

That 01 pats team was not much talent wise. Brady was a first year player and a manager of the game. The OL and DL were not very talented outside of Seymour, the receivers were Troy Brown and David Patten, you can't even name the 3rd wideout. The Secondary and LBs, and special teams were good, but outside of that everything else was average or below average talent wise.

Put it another way, most of the 01 team would have been cut in training camp of the 04 team.

 

Wait, didn't the Giants beat the best Patriots team ever? And people are ranking them behind lesser Patriot teams?

 

Did not rank the Patriots team in any specific order, because it was basically the same core players, just started with the first and worked my way down. They are 1-3, regardless of how ranked was my point. Not a hardcore follower of the Patriots, but pretty sure David Givens was ahead of Patten on the depth chart. They also had Deion Branch. Did the same with the Steelers for the same reason. The Giants also went to 2 Superbowls in the decade, but with pretty much a different core team against the Ravens, so viewed them different.

 

Guess I was wrong after checking. Givens and Branch were not even on the roster. Looks like Terry Glenn was the 3rd WR

 

1. Bucs
2-10. everyone else

 

Patriots are last because they are Cheaters

Rocket River

 

The Colts also got lucky in the seedings, by getting two teams with average QBs, and they avoided the chargers, the colts had lost 2 playoff games in a row against san diego, and they avoided the patriots too, when they finally play with a great QB they lost so they got lucky too.

The Saints faced 3 future Hall of fame QBs, so they didnt have an easy way, and most of the turnovers the saints created them, so I dont think you can say the saints didnt deserve to win.

the saints defense stopped the colts to scoring only 7 points in 3 quarters and with that offense, you dont need an excellent defense, the best defense of the saints is to score a lot of points.

 

The bucs were the worst, the pats were the best