| stevegroganfan |
01-29-2022 07:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by Red Dawg
(Post 16115295)
I couldn't agree more. He propped as the best ever just based on rings. The result doesn't tell the whole story if you look clearly at how things happened. Why isn't Bill Russel the GOAT? He has 11 rings. Why isn't Kareem the GOAT? He has 6. They don't pass the eye test. Brady doesn't pass my eye test compared to guys like Montana and Marino or Elway. Certainly not with Mahomes. I have watched them all play their careers from the start. No chance in hell Brady is the best. Montana's 4 are better than Bradys 7. He played better and did more to win the games. Defense and cheating and refs didn't carry him.
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I begrudgingly give Montana his due but even if deflategate and sypgate helped the Patriots... which I believe is BS, Montana and Niners helped a ton more with how they usurped the salary cap. Their owner would pay players on the side and that helps explain why they sometimes had awesome depth and not just at QB with Young backing up Montana.
Watch half of the Patriots games for the 3 years before Brady arrived to get some idea of the trend of the team and the ability level of the players. And then just watch his entire first season after their 100 million dollar QB Bledsoe got hurt.
If you do that and are honest, you will understand why Brady is so great. The guy is underrated since everyone is looking for a 6"5 QB that runs like Usain Bolt but throws the ball like Jeff George. It doesn't matter if you can throw the ball 1000 yards if you can't make the correct decisions quickly and throw accurately into tight windows with consistency.
Brady didn't have the Jeff George arm but he could still throw it about 73 yards accurately on an injured ankle. That is more than good enough when most QB's including Brady rarely throw the ball over 60 yards.
The only thing the guy that was lacking was running ability outside of the pocket and that is a double edged sword since the most effective running by a quarterback is stepping up into the pocket and running that way. Well that style of play deployed by Cam Newton/Josh Allen is liable to get the QB hurt. All other running may still be a positive on balance but it has more negatives associated with it than average fan realizes since when you start running, it is harder to see down the field and sometimes you run into a sack/worse opportunity.
Some Brady haters like to suggest he was a statue in the pocket. That is like the furthest thing from the truth. Bledsoe was fairly statuesque in the pocket, Brady had very good and not just good pocket mobility. He must have practiced the movements so religiously they became 2nd nature. |
