Just a thought here and don't get me wrong, Brady is accepted by pretty much anybody with a brain as one of the greatest of all time. But, look at that game last night.
Brady: 21 of 29, 201 yds., 6.9 Avg., 3 TDs, 0 INTs, 1-6 SKs., 81.8 QBR, 125.8 RTG
Take a good look at that stat line. Doesn't really jump out at you as GOAT right? But it's really efficient and it allows the team to play the style of play that wins that game. This used to be acknowledged back in the day. It wasn't just about yards or stats, it was about more then that. Back in the day, Marino threw for 5084 yards in 1984. Now, that's not a big deal today, lots of guys have done it since. In fact, I think 11 other seasons of 5K plus. But here's the thing, 10 of those seasons have come in the last 10 years, 1 of those seasons came in 2008. Think about that now. Marino did it 23 years before the next guy and 26 years before it started becoming a regular thing in the NFL. Basically, the league has become a series Fantasy Football Stat watchers. The real game is different. The real game is about managing the game and that's what used to be called QBing a win. It was never about yards but about winning. That has changed 180 in the last 10 years. Now, it's about stats and this drives everything, including money. But winning, that's not about stats. That's about something else all together. This is the hardest thing to explain to a QB in the entire game. Teaching a QB how to win instead of how to put up stats is the hardest thing to do. Consider, the QB has the most control of a game while on the field. They can literally take a game in any direction they want. So if the stats are what they want to play for, they can do it easily. But if you want to win instead, then maybe stats are not the best way to do that. Interestingly enough, Marino never won a championship, even thou he was a throwing fool. Maybe the best thrower I've ever seen, including all the guys playing today. Marino could throw the football but, he was a crappy QB for actually managing the game. He never valued the run game and he would audible out of it so that he could, instead, throw the ball. That is why he never won. The game is about so much more then just stats and Offense. There is so much more to it then that and it actually kills me to watch it be reduced to just Offense. Defense devalued, the actual art of managing a game, winning a game from the QB position by understanding how to win, what's important. All of that is becoming a lost art unfortunately. But last night, that was an example of what QBing used to be like. That's why you hear a lot of older Football fans say, the game was better, the QBs were better, things like that.
It's also why you see such a big difference of opinion in how and why QBs get paid. Younger fans look at stats, many times, and use that as reasoning as to why a QB should be paid. Older fans look at how QBs used to manage games and what they see as good QBing and don't see the justification because stats don't win games. It's a pretty big divide between generations.
I suppose it is what it is but just trying to explain to you why things play out the way they do. It's not about anything other then that, most times IMO.
