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Originally Posted by djwhokid
I believe so. Tom Brady is the clear cut best player in the NFL. No other player makes his teammates around him better. Like Jordan, he is money in clutch situations.
In the end of his career, Tom Brady should go down as the greatest football player.... better than Montana, Favre, Aikmen, Starr, etc..
With QB's like Elway and Montana you can argue, "but they had great players around them..."
Who are the great players around Brady? No Jerry Rice, no all-pro bowl RB, no 2-4 pro bowl offensive linemen, no pro Bowl TE.
Brady already has 3 rings, who were his weapons during that time? David Patten, Troy Brown, Deion Branch...
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I am sorry, but you are not going to convince me that he is somehow the "Jordan" of his sport.
Michael was hands down the best in his sport for almost a span of 13 years regardless of position, and there was no one remotely close to him that you could argue was on his level.
You can easily argue that there many other players in the NFL that are not only on the same level as Brady at his position (Manning..Who I still think is better) but also players who are just as great if not greater than Brady at their respective positions (Tomlinson, M. Harrison, etc.)
Also I would not consider Dwight Clark, Freddy Solomon, and Wendell Tyler as GREAT PLAYERS, and Montana won a Super Bowl with these guys, and can we please stop this ridiculous notion that the Pats have had no great players on those early or late super bowl teams this decade.
Bruschi, Vrabel, Matt Light, Troy Brown, Richard Seymour, Ty Law, Willie Mc Ginest, Adam Vinatieri.....All guys who have been to multiple Pro Bowls.
Let's also not give Brady all of the credit for those Super Bowl victories as it was also the defense which contributed to those victories as well.