Very bad examples. Brad Johnson's season was amazing last year after Culpepper went down. He got a team that was dead in the water at 2-5 back into playoff contention by leading them to a 7-2 mark the rest of the way and holds the NFL record of 10 consecutive seasons of > 60% completions. And Dilfer, all he did was win 15 straight starts (and 20 of 21) before he got hurt and Hasselbeck established himself as a quality starting QB.
If you are going solely by stats...then Ben, Dilfer and Johnson look like the lucky by-products of whatever system they were lucky enough to have fallen into. If you go by results, they have all won more championships ( 1 ea) than Marino, Palmer, Manning, Moon, Kelly (and a continuingly long list) of "great" quaterbacks. I guess that means that those on that list are all horrible quaterbacks because they could never do ENOUGH to propel their team the last leg? (That is pure sarcasm and showing that the logic that calls these guys (that have won championships) overrated can be applied to show that those that didn't win them are losers because they couldn't do enough to win one)
Stats are important in fantasy football. Being a leader that can help by performing your role, no matter how many or few times your role is asked to be in the spotlight, is what matters in pro football.
Edit: Career record as starting QBs: Dilfer 57-50 (5-1 postseason) mostly with a HORRIFIC Bucs team....Johnson 65-43 (3rd best active win % of QBs >50 starts)....Roethlisberger 24-4.
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