Yep, former Michigan quarterback Tom Brady just won his fifth Super Bowl in his seventh attempt, and he now has four Super Bowl MVPs. Each of those things is an NFL record. He has his detractors, but it’s the point of being inarguable. Congratulations to him and fellow former Wolverine Alan Branch.
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Ok – I can’t let this one go. Is Tom Brady the GOAT. Inarguable you say?
There is no such thing as the Greatest of all time of for anything!
The short answer is NO Tom Brady is not the greatest of all time because its impossible to compare different eras, different players, different styles and ways of playing, different rules, different health & training standards all from one era with / too another. The best one can do is say a player may be the greatest during the era in which they played:
Quarterback Era
John Driscoll 1919 – 1929
Arnie Heber 1930- 1945
Earl ‘Dutch’ Clark 1931- 1938
Sammy Baugh 1937-1950
Sid Luckman 1939-1950
Otto Grahm 1946-1955
Bobby Layne 1948- 1962
Johnny Unitas 1955-1973
Bart Starr 1956-1971
Roger Staubach 1969-1979
Terry Bradshaw 1970-1983
Joe Montana 1979-1994
John Elway 1983-1998
Peyton Manning 1998-2015
Tom Brady Present
Tom Brady is not the greatest he’s just the latest…………..
All of the above were greatest during their respective times and cannot really be compared – different times, styles of play, values, rules, equipment, health & training, etc.
Sammy Baugh is the father if you will and defined, set the precedent for what has become the modern era QB. Tom Brady is simply the latest result of this QB evolution.
There will never be a greatest of all time but rather a best latest of ‘today’ – enjoy & appreciate what you have but don’t detract form those who played before.
As I see it…………………INTJohn
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I disagree strongly. Who’s the greatest sprinter of all time? Usain Bolt. You can say “Well, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis and whoever else didn’t have the same training and environment,” but that’s beside the point. Of all the people who have lived on Earth, Usain Bolt is the fastest.
Tom Brady had better training and nutrition than Staubach, Bradshaw, etc., but he also plays in a more complicated offense against more complicated defenses. There’s a whole lot more going on in an NFL game now than there was back when Sid Luckman played. The game has evolved to a higher level with better athletes, and Brady is putting up better numbers, more wins, more dominant performances, etc. than any QB has done before. That’s not the fault of Sammy Baugh or Otto Graham, but it’s a fact.
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Brady is also playing in an era where the passing game is far more important than it used to be, and he has endured the pounding of longer seasons and a much hotter wife than Bradshaw or Staubach.
Quarterbacks have not gotten appreciably bigger, stronger or faster since the 60’s and 70’s, but defensive players have. Sacks hurt a lot more now.
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The latest is the greatest unless you want to argue the game is getting less sophisticated, training is hurting on-field performance, and information and technology are making players dumber. The reality is that if you dropped Montana into a modern offense he would be totally lost while Brady would look at the Bill Walsh playbook and scoff at it’s simplicity. As players, in terms of performance-level:
Tom Brady > Dan Marino > Joe Montana
Lebron James > Mike Jordan > Wilt Chamberlin
Mike Trout >>>> Babe Ruth
Now if you want to argue that Montana or Ruth would be better if they were born in 1985 well maybe you have a point, but that’s an enormous hypothetical.
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Jordan > Lebron
I can’t let that one go!
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Despite being a Pistons fan I do think Jordan was the greatest that ever lived…WAS.
Lebron is the same size as Karl Malone, has a better 3 shot than Jordan, is a better passer than Jordan, gets to the line more than Jordan, and is a more versatile defender than Jordan. Jordan turned it over less (maybe only because he shot more and passed less), had a better steal rate, and didn’t miss free throws as much…otherwise it’s edge Lebron in every meaningful skill measure.
Bigger and more skilled > better teammates.
You can count championships all you want but Jordan won zero titles without Pippen and Lebron can only say that about James Jones.
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Most dominant of era is different than best.
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“The best one can do is say a player may be the greatest during the era in which they played”
As much as it pains me to agree, I do within limitations. I’ve watched many of those on the above list and my favorites at a specific point in time ( for different reasons) might have been Layne,Unitas, Montana (& begrudginly Young), Favre (enthusiasm and toughness), and Manning. Hell, for a short period of time Warner was a blast to watch.
If winning is ultimately the metric we go by give Brady his due. He keeps winning even when his team really doesn’t have the greatest talent. He plays within his system, doesn’t try to elevate his personal stats, and makes his teamates often a bunch of castoffs play better. Him and Belichick, Belichick and Brady. GOATS in this era and arguably any era.
One will never appease anothers favoritism or intellectual “yeah buts” , the guy with the wins is Brady.
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Brady it is. And not just at QB, where only Joe Montana and Johnny Unitas even have a view of his tail lights. He’s the greatest football player to ever put on the pads.
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But…but…He cheats!!
I swear to god, after the Pats got behind by 25, he said to Bellichek, “OK, coach..time to start cheating so we can win this f****r!” How could anyone have watched the 4th quarter and not seen him cheating??
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Oh, what doofus downvoted this? Turn on your sarcasm meter, dude! Smh
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Ready for Brady to retire so I can start hating the Patriots.
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Nah…then they’ll just trade for Rudock and plug him in.
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