I was under the impression we were talking greatest QB, not athlete. Brady is just goat qbYou can but you would be wrong. Who is the best? Can you name him? Can you get 10 people to agree that person is better than Tom Brady? Bullshit.
Better football player, not quarterback, and in history, not the Super Bowl era? Go back to when players had to play offense and defense, go back to someone like Otto Graham who went to the championship game in every single season he played, there are tons of choices. Even in the SB era, you will find people who would consider any number of all-time greats better football players.
Now you guys are becoming pathetic. LOL. You can't say Montana is better anymore, not Bradshaw, not Marino so you pull these guys out of your ass.
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No one is taking you seriously. Stop it. I get it. You don't like Brady but the fact is he is money. Never count him out.
Snouter said that Brady is the best football player in history. Not the best quarterback, and not in the Super Bowl era. I would argue that someone who played in 10 championship games in 10 seasons, winning 7, had more success than Brady who has played in 7 championships, winning 5, in 16 years. I think someone who was great at multiple positions could be looked at as a better football player than Brady, even if Brady is the best quarterback. Just because Brady may be the best quarterback of the Super Bowl era does not mean he is the best football player ever.
I never said I don't like Brady. I certainly can say that anyone I want to is better than Brady, as Super Bowl wins are not the only metric by which to judge a quarterback or any other player. Brady didn't even play a great game in this Super Bowl; he played a great last 20 minutes or so. Brady was actually pretty bad until the third quarter. He was missing throws, threw a pick-six, and was getting sacked pretty often. Once the Atlanta defense wore down, however, he was able to pick them apart. Even then, he had some help from one of the greatest catches in the history of the NFL playoffs from Edelman.
You may think that having the most Super Bowl wins makes a quarterback the greatest. I don't agree with that.
Brady is probably the best of the SB era, but I might put him at 1a and Montana at 1b.
I would not say Brady is the greatest football player ever.
You can't compare what Otto Graham did to what Tom Brady accomplished
Graham won championships in the All American Football League which had eight teams
Winning an NFL championship meant being the best of 14 teams. You won your conference and went straight to the championship game
Brady had to be the best of 32 teams, winning the championship meant you had to win at least three games in the playoffs, not one like Graham did
If you are talking about the greatest football player in history, rather than the greatest quarterback of the SB era, you absolutely can compare them. Particularly if you consider championship wins the most important factor in individual rankings. Otto Graham played the games available to him, and his teams won those game often enough to get to the championship game every year he played. He even won a pro basketball championship. Graham also played some defense and was a punt returner for a few years. He still holds the record for highest winning percentage as a QB and most passing yards per attempt.
Yes, they were different times. Yes, direct comparisons are difficult. I'm not the one who claimed Brady is the greatest football playing in history, though.![]()