Originally posted by natediaz:
history will remember 7SB apperances and 5SB wins. nobody is perfect. if Joe was perfect then he should've been 23-0 in the playoffs. but he did lose games even with the loaded talent he had around him. it's unrealistic for anyone to be 7-0 in the SBs in the non salary cap era.
Compare the 9 years since they won their first SB:
Montana '81 - '90: 4-0
Brady '01 - '10 - 3-1
Playoff One and dones:
Montana - 3
Brady - 2
Why do I stop at 9 years? Because that was when Montana last started for the 49ers.
If you follow football, you would know why that is.
If not, let's just say that nobody survives losing a job to injury for 2 full seasons.....esp. when you have a big talent to replace you.
It took Brady more than 5 super bowls to break all of Montana's Super Bowl records, and postseason passing records.
Essentially, Brady was a similar caliber player that outlasted Montana. Credit to him, can't take that away from him.
But it's an essential fact that needs to be brought up because nobody was touting Brady as better than Montana back in '07 (maybe if the pats BEAT the giants they could have had the talk).
2008 misses 15 games.
2009 one and done brutal home loss against Baltimore, 33-14?
2010 one and done home loss against the Sanchez led Jets, about a month after blowing them out
2011 you could argue that the Ravens choked....didn't the guy drop a surefire TD at the end? I forgot the exact details but the Pats escaped winning, and Brady admitted he played like crap in that game.
Then proceed to lose another SB to the Giants. Maybe Welker is to blame for the pass....but still. I think if you are the UNDENIABLE BEST EVER QB OF ALL TIME YOU BEAT THE S***** WILDCARD GIANTS AT LEAST ONCE?? TOO MUCH TO ASK??
Sorry, I couldn't say that quietly.
2012 outgunned/stomped by Baltimore. Seems like elite Ds can have Patriots # in the playoffs.
2013 nice job of leading nobodies far enough to get spanked in the championship game. This was a vintage Peyton Manning effort....
2014 nice job of winning this game. I won't go into the whole Lynch thing because of the Kearse catch.
2015 Donkeys D smashed him. He lost to the worst ever Peyton Manning . Almost embarrassing.
2016 No need to repeat what others said. Great clutchness, but this game should have been a 31-28 final ...an L any way you look at it. There will be no game like this in Montana's memory to compare.
Montana in '93 and '94 at an older PHYSICAL/BATTERED age than Brady is now did some really cool things. Unfortunately for KC, Buffalo was the AFC team of the '90s.
FOH with the automatic Brady > Montana.