Five worst NFL quarterbacks with Super Bowl rings
By John Buhler
2. Trent Dilfer: Super Bowl XXXV, Baltimore Ravens
Trent Dilfer may go down as one of the best quarterbacks to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but that isn’t saying much as there are few teams with a worse quarterback history than Tampa Bay. Dilfer is an analyst now, but is best remembered for being the starting quarterback for when the Buccaneers started to turn things around and for winning a Super Bowl as the a member of the 2000 Baltimore Ravens.
The 2000 Baltimore Ravens are another one of those all-time great defenses. It was the season that middle linebacker Ray Lewis assumed being the best defensive player in football and didn’t let up on it for the next decade.
That Ravens team had depth at all three levels of its defense and a fantastic running back in Jamal Lewis. All Dilfer had to do that year was to hand the ball off to Lewis, not turn the football over, and let the defense take over.
Though he played a decent game in Super Bowl XXXV, he didn’t end up winning the Super Bowl MVP that went to Ray Lewis. At that time, it was a rarity for a non-quarterback to win Super Bowl MVP. Dilfer left the Ravens after 2000 and bounced around between the Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Cleveland Browns before retiring after the 2007 season.
Quarterbacking opposite an all-time defense, playing against a week NFC foe in the New York Giants, having his best years behind him in Tampa Bay all coincide with Dilfer as being one of the worst starting quarterbacks to have ever won a Super Bowl. It was almost as if the 2000 Ravens won this Super Bowl in spite of Dilfer’s so-so play as a passer.
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