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Amid all the talk of big-name QBs, Brady just wins
Charlotte Observer ^

Posted on 01/19/2005 2:45:31 PM PST by bikepacker67

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To: CyberCowboy777

Exactly. And if Phil Simms was the QB on the 49ers back then, and Montana was the QB on the Giants, I'll bet nothing would have changed. Those San Francisco teams were so dominant because the identity of the quarterback was almost incidental.


61 posted on 01/19/2005 5:12:08 PM PST by Alberta's Child (It could be worse . . . I could've missed my calling.)
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To: Echo Talon
Great stats for Manning.

Among QB's in the Hall, Joe Montana has the highest QB rating, 92.3. Joe Namath's was 65.5.

Super Bowls rings are remembered.
62 posted on 01/19/2005 5:14:28 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (Well.... I'll be)
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To: Alberta's Child
You have got to be kidding!

Joe had a way of winning. No way you can watch those SB years (especially in the playoffs) and discount the brilliance of play by Joe Cool.

Montana has four Super Bowl rings and three Super Bowl MVP trophies.

63 posted on 01/19/2005 5:18:04 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (Well.... I'll be)
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To: CyberCowboy777

Here's an interesting bit of trivia for you: Did you know that Joe Namath is the only QB ever to be named Super Bowl MVP without throwing a touchdown pass in the game?


64 posted on 01/19/2005 5:18:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child (It could be worse . . . I could've missed my calling.)
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To: Alberta's Child

No I did not!


65 posted on 01/19/2005 5:19:34 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (Well.... I'll be)
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To: CyberCowboy777
But those were phenomenal teams Montana played on -- on both sides of the ball. He never went to a Pro Bowl with fewer than four or five teammates in any given year, and throughout his career he always played with teammates who were among the best in recent decades (if not all time) at their respective positions -- including Jerry Rice, Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott, Roger Craig, Randy Cross, Guy McIntyre, Fred Dean, Eric Wright, Charles Haley, and Michael Carter. The 49ers' defensive units from that era were among the best in the league, even though they were very underrated and didn't get a lot of media coverage. In 1984, for example, the team's entire secondary represented the NFC in the Pro Bowl -- the first (and only) time that has ever happened in NFL history.

Does anyone even know who played wide receiver on those Giants teams of the 1980s, or who their defensive backs were, or who carried the ball for them?

66 posted on 01/19/2005 6:08:22 PM PST by Alberta's Child (It could be worse . . . I could've missed my calling.)
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To: Nexus
"Ben WILL NOT be wearing those ridicules gloves this weekend, thank goodness. They surely had something to do with his accuracy problems against the Jets."

Taking the gloves off against the Patriots?

LOL!

67 posted on 01/19/2005 6:41:25 PM PST by Radix (Announcing a new Contest: Name this Tag Line. Nothing else to do and there are no prizes.)
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To: dakine
Brady has two rings..."

Peyton Manning has the SuffeRING!

68 posted on 01/19/2005 6:43:40 PM PST by Radix (Announcing a new Contest: Name this Tag Line. Nothing else to do and there are no prizes.)
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To: dakine
Michigan coaching stunk during the Brady years because John Cooper was unavailable....

He's available now, much to your chagrin. ;o)

69 posted on 01/20/2005 5:15:45 AM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: iconoclast

one word: probation....


70 posted on 01/20/2005 6:15:52 AM PST by dakine
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To: bikepacker67

gee, I thought the Patriots won, with Brady lending a hand.

Didn't know he was a one man team. :P


71 posted on 01/20/2005 6:22:04 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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