Plus Joe played in an era when defenders could leave their feet, launch themselves and lead with their helmets to make a tackle. If a defender looks at Brady the wrong way, he gets a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty. Joe broke his back and won two more superbowls.

George Schulz yep leonard marshall ended joes career with a helmet to joes back tackle 1990 play offs😢

Joe is the best in my opinion because he played in a tougher era. The defense was way tougher back then. The game was more physical. He and MJ excelled when people were able to really lay their bodies on you. GOATS.

@@frettin1706 You nailed it. When Joe played, football was a tougher game. I get so tired of hearing Tom Brady is the best. He gets coddled, he cheats, and he could not take the hits Joe did. Joe is Four for Four. Brady cannot say that. And with all the trash-talking about Eli, he beat Brady TWICE in two Super Bowls. A quote from Joe on a DP show. "I do not know how it feels to lose a Super Bowl, so I cannot answer that question." There it is, Brady.

I don't get how one can dismiss the 2 super bowl losses. Somehow not even going to the SB is better than going and losing? Of course, that was then. Now you rationalize 4-0 (3x MVP) is better than 6-3 (4x MVP).

Yep. Great comment!

4-0 GOAT! Brady will never be able to say that.

Joe earned his rings unlike someone. Unfortunately the league has ruined the game for a lot of people with super bowls having the significance of a participation trophy. I can't take the nfl seriously. I haven't for at least ten years. How anyone can anymore is ignorance on their part. It's rigged entertainment now and not worth following. And it's blantely obvious. Btw, that #12 is not even in the top 40 QB's of all time. The next legitimate sb he wins will be the first.

If I'm starting a team, he's my guy.

@@JeepTJWheelin Must be hard having a butt so hurt to start hating #12 soo hard...Did someone said stickum? OOOh 49s surely NEVER cheated a single time, also EVERY SINGLE TEAM TO EVER PLAY NEVER cheated a single time..in an era with no free agency and no salary cap...every sport in the world is changend in last 30 years, for the best or the worst is debatable...but saying that #12 is not even in the top 40qbs and SB are a participation trophy is just delusional and disrespectful for all the people playing the game...maybe it's time to start watch game and than talk about football...otherwise you are only an old man yelling at a cloud..or the always classic good ol' times were better...

@@Mammadronicus_Rex Awww I hurt wittle boys feelings. Sorry to burst your boyfriend Tammi Brady bubble. So naive and incredibly ignorant. Good luck with that.

You forgot to mention George Bell, Lloyd Moseby and Dave Steib.

He was one the best to ever do it... JOE 4-0...

Joseph Ford that cause brady about to win another sb with edleman Dorsett and hogan and a best down gronk

Idiot.

right and I'm a 49er fan and I know that Dan Patrick be tripping some times.

Like when he thought Gronk had a already won a Super Bowl when presenting the Lombardi Trophy to the Patriots after Super Bowl 49. I like Dan, but sometimes he says dumb stuff, especially when he interviews Schilling and actually takes his insane political comments as legit statements. I'm a Red Sox fan and I thank Schilling for 2004, but he is a loon and an asshole. Joe Montana is still Joe Cool. He should have been ranked #1 on Greatest NFL Players of All Time instead of Jerry Rice the cheater

+Matt Coffey good point Matt. Bradshaw fumbped and threw picks in Super Bowl. Good qb. Seen as better than he really was because Steelers D was so good. Played terrible in Super Bowl 9.

Yeah!

steelers defense won those titles bradshaw threw as many picks as tds. Montona is a top 2 QB ever! Apples and oranges

you mean the best?

If he's that cool then why is he playing Backgammon on his Honeymoon with his wife? LoL You are right. Nobody cooler than Joe.

By going to ND (wink).

Marino didn't have the supporting cast like Montana. It's a team sport so all the pieces needed to fit.

Marcelo B I agree. And i am a Cowboy fan. We never beat him when he was starting quarterback.

+Sideshow Bob Brady was a game manager for three of those Super Bowls, the AFC is a joke, just about everyone agrees he always has the easiest road to the super bowl. Joe had a total qbr in those supe bowls of 127.4 compared to Brady's 92. Brady only played in one super bowl where he had a better passer rating than the opposing Quarterback. If Joe played in today's league he wouldn't have had to get multiple surges and deal with multiple concussions. The league is watered down. Plus who in the world has a throw away sell phone with the equipment manager and then destroys all of the evidence when the NFL starts to investigate you. Oh yeah it's tom shady.

@@gibster9624 Spotted another butthurt fan...your team must be beaten lot of times by the pats uh? probably thinking that pats owner is paying every other team to let them win...lol

Montana was drafted in 79. Unfortunately for me in Northern California he didn't start in 79 like Magic and Larry did. Big mistake.

lmao

JPL

Rick Dynes I read that Sam Wyche said that when he was coaching qbs with SF that they got to the point that they just made up stuff to tell Joe because he was so good. Joe would complete a pass in practice and they would say "Joe, if you would hit him on the left number he could get 5 more yards." And the next pass would hit the receiver on the left number according to Wyche.

@@jonebohl5161 I heard that too. Pretty incredible

Montana played kinda a point guard style Quarterback. He wasn't known for having a rocket arm. That soft ball that he threw looked natural to me. Montana could put some zip on the ball when he threaded the needle though. Because Montana won two Cottonbowls and a National Championship in College I never credited anyone else in the NFL for his skill set. He was just a natural.

Huh? Teams won championships then, teams win championships now. So, Joe wasn’t running the west coast system under the greatest offensive coach in NFL history? Oh...

SuperJohn12354 LT wasnt huge for back than. same size as tippett swilling rickey jackson carl banks derrick thomas haley. the best lb today is smaller than all of them. von miller

the rules are the way they are today because dont want star qbs and wrs getting hurt now. they lose too much money and ratings, plus the young fan wants to see high scores for there fantasy football and red zone channels. back than players did get hurt and it was considered fine. its a soft game now. kind of like 7 on 7 passing drills in practice. the qb might as well where a red jersey

How fast did they run in the combine?, how much could they bench, how agile were they, when you look at the metrics you see that the guys now on average are what the best guys were back in Montana's day and they now can watch fully dissected video on all the offences, yeah ok so a lot of the guys were as big but not as fast, and yes they don't want the QB's to get hurt, but they still get hit just because there's a rule saying ruffing the passer doesn't mean Brady doesn't get hit and then the penalty is given. If you want to go back before Montana then yeah ok i'll give you that when guys like night train could legally grab your helmet and try to break your neck. the offence could also hold defenders.

@@SuperJohn12354 they can look at fully dissected offenses on video illeagally too. Go ask the rams about that. Running 40 yd dash in sneakers and shorts or bench pressing dont make a football player. They are playing football. They are not track stars or bodybuilders.

Stupid comment. That's like saying Jordan was an average shooting guard.