Peyton Manning is the only 4 time NFL MVP. But eeryone I ask seems to always say they would take Brady over him. Why?

Playoff and Super Bowl success.

Playoff and Super Bowl success.

 

So I guess Terry Bradshaw is the greatest of all time?

So I guess Terry Bradshaw is the greatest of all time?

 

He's certainly seen as much better than his statistics would indicate. Brady has the stats and the wins. Manning has the stats. Same reason that Marino is often downgraded. The perception is that when the chips were really down Manning seldom came through. The problem is even if he had a great game, it was overlooked due to the fact that his team lost.

75 is right on. Here is an SI article from 2010 that looked at the 2 QB's. Pretty much says it all.

 

Stats say Patriots' Tom Brady better than Colts' Peyton Manning - Kerry J. Byrne - SI.com

Here is a Bleacher Report article from 2012 that supports Brady over Manning as well.

 

Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning: Breaking Down Historical Stats & Career Accolades | Bleacher Report

Can not discount that Bill Belichick and staff > than all of the Coaches and staffs at Indy.

 

I don't like ol' Bilicheat, but he is an excellent coach and seems to game plan to opponents weakness as well as any coach in history.

QBs are judged by the rings and Brady has more hardware in his safe.

Are the number of rings the right way to decide this?

 

For those that say Brady over Manning, I have a question. Do you think that Manning would have won at least 3 of the 5 Superbowls that Brady has won if he was the Patriots QB?

Can not discount that Bill Belichick and staff > than all of the Coaches and staffs at Indy.

 

I don't like ol' Bilicheat, but he is an excellent coach and seems to game plan to opponents weakness as well as any coach in history.

The Patriots haven't won a sb since they got caught cheating.

He's certainly seen as much better than his statistics would indicate. Brady has the stats and the wins. Manning has the stats. Same reason that Marino is often downgraded. The perception is that when the chips were really down Manning seldom came through. The problem is even if he had a great game, it was overlooked due to the fact that his team lost.

 

And Dan Marino had one 1k yard rusher his entire career, if Marino was the qb of the 2000 Patriots, he'd probably have 6 sb titles.

 

Would you take Troy Aikman over Brett Favre?

We could play that game all day. What has Manning done to make you take him over Brady?

Peyton Manning is the only 4 time NFL MVP. But eeryone I ask seems to always say they would take Brady over him. Why?

Not me. Brady is good, but he wasn't always as good as he was several years ago.

 

Brady fell into the perfect position with the Patriots. HE is a good QB, don't get me wwrong, but when they won the SB's it wasn't because of Brady, it was because of their defense. Brady has been getting the accolades for their SB wins and although he did nothing wrong and did nothing to lose those games for him early on, he wasn'tt as good as he was when he broke records in his 16-0 season.

The last couple years in big games Brady looked horrible yet never gets blamed for their losses. In his last SB against the Giants he looked like crap and his throws weree horrible but because he is Brady the blame went to his recievers. Even Welkerr was blamed for the drop towards the end of that game but if you remember tthe 3-4 throws before that were all behind receivers etc. and the one Welker gets blaamed for was behind him and if he came down with the catch it would of been considered a great catch due to the bad throw.

 

Manning has always been the better passer and more cerebral QB.

QBs are judged by the rings and Brady has more hardware in his safe.

QB's always get too much credit and take too much blame for SB's

 

 

For some reason people tend to forget it's a team game and give all the accolades to a QB even if it's something else that puts the team over the top such as defense etc.

 

All you have to look at is the first Bengals Super Bowl. You take a poll around the country and ask Football fans who the better QB that game was I garuntee you Joe Montana would win in the voting hands down.

 

Now go and look at the facts of the game and who was actually the better QB in that game, it was Ken Anderson.

 

SB 16 Stats by QB

Ken Anderson 73.5% compl % 300 yds passing 2 TD's

 

Joe Montana 63% compl% 157 yds passing 1 TD

 

yet Joe won MVP of the game.

Edited April 21, 201313 yr by Hellbird

Not me. Brady is good, but he wasn't always as good as he was several years ago.

 

Brady fell into the perfect position with the Patriots. HE is a good QB, don't get me wwrong, but when they won the SB's it wasn't because of Brady, it was because of their defense. Brady has been getting the accolades for their SB wins and although he did nothing wrong and did nothing to lose those games for him early on, he wasn'tt as good as he was when he broke records in his 16-0 season.

The last couple years in big games Brady looked horrible yet never gets blamed for their losses. In his last SB against the Giants he looked like crap and his throws weree horrible but because he is Brady the blame went to his recievers. Even Welkerr was blamed for the drop towards the end of that game but if you remember tthe 3-4 throws before that were all behind receivers etc. and the one Welker gets blaamed for was behind him and if he came down with the catch it would of been considered a great catch due to the bad throw.

 

Manning has always been the better passer and more cerebral QB.

 

I could not agree more. Brady was in the right place right time kinda situation, the defense kept them in super bowls and Vinnatiari won them.