Is Brady unquestionably the best ever?

[Murdock2420]

(03-10-2017, 07:36 PM)Pape Wrote: He couldn't survive back then? Please, that's just a stupid statement with no basis in fact or reality. The players now are bigger, stronger and faster, and yes they hit harder. Defensive ends are as big as or bigger than the old defensive tackles, you have ends now who are faster than linebackers of the "day" etc.

Too much is made of the "old" days. Its just been romanticized in everyone's memories. But really look up some of the old games online, and look at the play. It just doesn't measure up speed wise, power wise, etc to whats happening on the field today.

And no qb likes getting hit, and they all have issues when they have defensive linemen in their face. Lets not pretend that its just Brady who doesn't like that.

Sigh...a stupid statement?? It is actually based on something called reality. 

This is how the QB's before Tom Brady and the tuck rule...and the don't hit them low rule and don't hit them in the head rule all existed. 





Tom Brady is soft. Every single time he is touched, he lays on the ground and looks to the refs for a flag. He can get sacked, ball in hand, and still wants a flag for being touched. 

As for this "bigger, stronger, faster" statement. Ummm...news flash. So are the WRs and the Offensive linemen and...oh...so are the QBs themselves. It's not like only the defensive players have magically been getting bigger...all the NFL players are, so that argument is invalid. The guys hitting Montana, or Bradshaw or Unitas were bigger than them, same way the guys hitting modern QBs are bigger than them. 

The scale is the same.

Doesn't measure up to the speed....yes...on both sides...so, once again advantage modern QBs who have faster targets, who can jump higher, and are not allowed to be touched. The actually enforce those rules now, unlike the old days when the game was built on defense.

Prior to this Manning/Brady era, teams won Championships based on defense, and now the rules are slanted so that teams win based off of high powered offense. That doesn't mean the QBs are better, it point blank means the rules now favor the offense.

Read any article written about the game by anyone who has basic knowledge of the game and the say "Today's game completely favors the offense." 

To say Brady is the G.O.A.T. is like saying Barry Bonds is truly the HR king. The game changes, and favors offense. 

No QB likes getting hit?? Really? While most don't like getting hit late, guys like Ben, and Rodgers and Cam Newton and Russel Wilson all seem to really thrive against the blitz, even Andy Dalton does better against the blitz. Brady is a system QB. The way that system is run, Mark Sanchez could win a Super Bowl.

Like I said, I'm not saying Brady isn't talented, you don't become a starting NFL QB without talent, but take away his coach and that system and he doesn't have a ring and he is a middle of the pack QB.