Hoofbite;2982504 said:
Manning.
What he does is unreal. He runs nearly every aspect of that offense. He has turned playing that position into a science.
No other QB can even come close to doing what he does.
Brees is a great QB but he doesn't run his team like Manning.
Brady is a great QB as well but he too doesn't run his offense like Manning. He does it more than Brees but not as much as Manning.
I'd rank them in this order.
1. Manning
2. Brady
3. Brees
Agreed on Manning. It's ridiculous how much more mentally advanced he is from every one else playing the position.
I like Brees a lot, but to me he's just a slightly better version of Romo -- a guy that wows for stretches and is most certainly good, but still has a lot to prove to be considered the best in the game. Check out Brees' performances in the Saints' losses last year; you talk about a mistake-prone, self-destructing QB, well, he plays for New Orleans also.
I'd probably rank Roethlisberger third on my list, with Brees or Warner fourth. The tricky thing with Warner is you don't know what you have from year to year with his injury history. The next group gets tricky for me. Eli is starting to head the class of that group and McNabb is probably up there as well. I'd say Rivers, Romo and Rodgers follow next. Ryan and Flacco are surging up the list, but I don't know if 19 games is enough to say they're top 10 just yet; but it seems like a certainty they will be among the best in short time. I'd place Cutler -- a mistake prone player with a great arm who has never made the playoffs -- next.
Somewhere around No. 35 comes Jason Campbell.
