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Veteran
Best QB = Brady@DaRock
The greatest quarterback of all time is Tom Brady, hands down. He was consistently great in the regular season, consistently great in the playoffs, with some of the greatest playoff moments a quarterback ever had.
That 28-3 comeback vs Atlanta was essentially his LeBron 3-1 comeback. Nobody in the history of the sport ever did this in the Super Bowl, nobody could, mf's have been down 25 in the Super Bowl before. Just like mf's have been down 3-1 in The Finals before.
He did this game 2 years AFTER the 4thQ comeback vs the Legion Of Boom, who I staunchly believe is the greatest defense of all time;
And after the 28-3 comeback, the very next year he had a 500 yard passing game in the Super Bowl loss to Philly, which was basically LeBron's G1 2018 performance.
These are just 3 historically great Super Bowl performances, and quite arguably the 3 greatest SB performances ever. Certainly 28-3 is #1, there's never been anything like that. But aside from these games, there's a list of Playoff Brady games I can point to as historically significant.
The combination of a long prime + historic peak + consistent regular season greatness + consistent raising the bar in the playoffs + some of the greatest postseason games ever, =Tom Brady is the GOAT.
Manning has those first 3 points, but not the last two. That's why he isn't the GOAT. His year over year regular season dominance eclipses everybody, including Brady. There have been a lot of dominant quarterbacks, and Brady's ability to control the game when in disadvantageous situations, vs elite defenses, are his unique superpower.
Manning's, was being the greatest computer under center ever. Mf was a computer.
Best RB = based on the criteria just used for Brady....it should be Emmitt Smith. Long prime, elite stats, big time performer in big games. We judge QBs by what they do but judge RBs by how physically talented they were.
Best WR = most would say Rice overall with honorable mentions for guys like Moss. We judge WR by what they actually did mostly.