Superbowl sunday!

[Craiga 01453]

Ehh, my opinion on Brady is he is a very good QB who gets the benefit of playing in Boston. Any good sports player/team from Boston or NY tend to be pitched as "the greatest." If Brady and co played for another city, he would be called a great QB who benefited from a consistently strong OL, great Defenses, and incredible luck in squeaking out 5 SB wins by a combined victory margin of 20 points. At least 2 of his MVPs would be spread out to Defensive players.


That doesn't take away his records, but in comparison, with 1 game on the line, I'm going with Montana. He never lost a SB, never threw an INT in the SB, never fell behind 14, let alone 25 points in a SB, and has a career 129 passer rating in the SB. Who did he face and defeat? MVP QBs Ken Anderson, Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, and John Elway. It took Brady 6 tries to match what Montana did in 4. So yeah, I'm taking Joe.

I don't know that I agree with Boston putting him in the argument. Boston and NY are huge markets and probably tougher to play in than any other. Countless players in all 4 major sports have come to Boston as great players and flopped under the pressure of a large market with crazed fans. Others have started their careers in Boston with huge expectations and didn't flourish until leaving and playing in a city with less pressure from fans and media. I think "surviving" the pressure of being the face of a Boston franchise has got to be an extremely daunting challenge in itself. Brady has embraced it and thrived on it. It takes a different kind of person to be able to handle that pressure, let alone rise above it to become an all-time great.

Let's also keep in mind, 2 ridiculous game-winning catches from 2 random NY Giants receivers (who the heck is David Tyree??) kept Brady from being 7-0 is the SB, but they lost 2 by a combined total of 7 points. So that swings both ways.

In strictly a SB setting, Montana was amazing, no doubt. Possibly the best SB QB ever. And he is definitely, 100% without a doubt an all-time great. Probably top 3 in my opinion...and just for arguments sake, Montana never engineered the greatest come back in SB history