What a franchise QB can do

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(01-20-2020, 04:23 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I still think Joe is the GOAT, or at least the most clutch QB of all-time. Sure, Brady has a longer resume (played forever, stayed with his legendary coach), but Joe's Super Bowl numbers will never be touched. 122 passer rating, 11 TD's to 0 picks.

Joe's playoff passer rating of 95.6 is much higher than Brady's 89.8 despite Joe playing in a much tougher era for passing. Joe's passer rating went UP in the playoffs while Brady's went down.

Not hating on Brady, but there are a lot of arguments for why Joe was more impressive. He also led a different team to a conference title game. He just didn't have Brady's longevity (partly due to the roughness of that era), nor did he get to stay with his original team/coach and rack up more rings, which I have little doubt he would have.

There's 2 huge things that Joe Montana didn't have to worry about, though, Shake. They're two big enough things that I can't help but diminish his accomplishments a bit....

1. Free Agency  (didn't start properly until 1993)
2. Salary Cap  (didn't exist until 1994)


It's a whole lot easier to keep a team dominant when you don't have to worry about your best players having the ability to leave, or have to worry about having too many good players taking up too much of the non-existent salary cap.

Joe Montana if he were in his prime in 2019 would be making $35m/yr+, and Jerry Rice would be making $22m/yr+... easily.

That's at least $57m/yr out of a $188.2m salary cap for 2 players.

I mean heck, they were able to keep Steve Young, a freaking HoFer, on their bench for his 3rd-6th professional seasons because of a lack of FA.