Brady is by far the greatest player in nfl history and it's not close. Nobody is close. He's done it all. Championships, season success, two different coaches, two different teams, 2+ different eras, like 6 different offensive systems, statistical brilliance, regular season brilliance, post season brilliance, great statistical seasons when surrounded by stars, great tactical seasons when playing with bad players around him. He's excelled thru like 4 distinct eras of offensive football. He's done everything. There is no argument. This is just capstone on his career.
Montana isn't in the conversation. And anybody who says like "going 4-0 is better than going 6-3" is stupid, because montana just lost earlier. It's like saying that losing in a division or wild card round is better than losing in the superbowl which is just so dumb. As if *not making the playoffs* is better than making the super bowl and losing a couple times. It's like saying that Cam Newton had a better season than Aaron rodgers this year, because rodgers lost in the playoffs while Newton only lost jn the regular season. It just doesn't make sense.
There's no argument anymore. Tom brady is the greatest player in nfl history. You could entertain an argument maybe in 2017... But not anymore. He was clearly the GOAT after 2018, but now, 43, going back to another super bowl it's ... Beating Brees and Rodgers in the playoffs, there's just no debate.
And also brady had an amazing season. He wasn't perfect, but it was *very very very good* and even tho he had like 1000 yards and 6 or 7 tds in the last few games it doesn't matter..nobody remembers how it happened in a couple years. Nobody remembers how Manning got his 55ish TD that season, only that he did.
And he's done this all in an era designed for no team or player to dominate for 20 years. It's remarkable.
As for greatest player across all team sports? Perhaps. Bill Russell is hard to argue against. The only argument against russell is the nature of the NBA from 1959 to 1973. Like that's a league designed for two players to dominate it for 15 years, and Russell did. I think Russell was more dominant than Jordan, but it was a very different league in the 16 years of Jordan than the 10+ coaching for Russell.
From a macro perspective these last 2 seasons are the perfect example. In 10 years everyone's gonna look at 2019 patriots and 2020 patriots, vs 2019 bucs and 2020 bucs and how it's a complete reversal (except that the bucs went to the SB while the Pats got dominated in the WC). Brady is the difference between a bad team (patriots) competing for SB and not, and good team (TB) missing the playoffs and then competing for a super bowl. The difference is having the GOAT. (Realistically during the seasons you know that the patriots also went from the #1 defense in the nfl to the ....#18, and a ton of other shit, but again in 10 years you forget that stuff)
Montana isn't in the conversation. And anybody who says like "going 4-0 is better than going 6-3" is stupid, because montana just lost earlier. It's like saying that losing in a division or wild card round is better than losing in the superbowl which is just so dumb. As if *not making the playoffs* is better than making the super bowl and losing a couple times. It's like saying that Cam Newton had a better season than Aaron rodgers this year, because rodgers lost in the playoffs while Newton only lost jn the regular season. It just doesn't make sense.
There's no argument anymore. Tom brady is the greatest player in nfl history. You could entertain an argument maybe in 2017... But not anymore. He was clearly the GOAT after 2018, but now, 43, going back to another super bowl it's ... Beating Brees and Rodgers in the playoffs, there's just no debate.
And also brady had an amazing season. He wasn't perfect, but it was *very very very good* and even tho he had like 1000 yards and 6 or 7 tds in the last few games it doesn't matter..nobody remembers how it happened in a couple years. Nobody remembers how Manning got his 55ish TD that season, only that he did.
And he's done this all in an era designed for no team or player to dominate for 20 years. It's remarkable.
As for greatest player across all team sports? Perhaps. Bill Russell is hard to argue against. The only argument against russell is the nature of the NBA from 1959 to 1973. Like that's a league designed for two players to dominate it for 15 years, and Russell did. I think Russell was more dominant than Jordan, but it was a very different league in the 16 years of Jordan than the 10+ coaching for Russell.
From a macro perspective these last 2 seasons are the perfect example. In 10 years everyone's gonna look at 2019 patriots and 2020 patriots, vs 2019 bucs and 2020 bucs and how it's a complete reversal (except that the bucs went to the SB while the Pats got dominated in the WC). Brady is the difference between a bad team (patriots) competing for SB and not, and good team (TB) missing the playoffs and then competing for a super bowl. The difference is having the GOAT. (Realistically during the seasons you know that the patriots also went from the #1 defense in the nfl to the ....#18, and a ton of other shit, but again in 10 years you forget that stuff)
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