<li>Montana- 4 rings and great stats.</li>
<li>Favre- Has a ring, and is second best in stats only to marino, who he may surpass if he plays 2 more years. He’s a winner too. 3 MVPs</li>
<li>Elway- 2 rings in 5 tries, 3rd best in most stats behind brett and marino</li>
<li>Marino- The king of stats (unless favre or manning catches him) but he has no ring. Nonetheless, he was still great.</li>
<li>Tarkington- Great stats but no rings in 3 appearences in the big game. He was one of the 1st scrambling QBs though.</li>
</ol>
<p>thomas brady</p>
<p>i can't put brady up there. He has 3 rings, but so does aikman, brashaw(4), and starr(2 SB and like 5 Championships). Those guys played longer, and had better stats than brady. And personally, i think brady is a good QB on a great team. Put anybody in his shoes and they win.</p>
<p>I agree. I actually think Brady is an extremely overrated quarterback as stats and mechanics go. He works wonders in the Pats offense, but it is as packerfan2 said, anyone would do well there. </p>
<p>Marino may be the 2nd best QB ever even though he never won a ring. His stats are just astronomical.</p>
<p>Montana is #1. Bradshaw, Elway, Favre and Marino are tied for second. </p>
<p>As for Brady, he is on the right path...but he needs to keep it up for another 6 or 7 seasons. He has only been around for 4 seasons. If he can do as well in the next 6 seasons as he has in the last 4, he will be the best QB of all time. </p>
<p>To say that Brady is overrated is way incorrect. The guy is a winner and he does it with class. Sure he has talent around him...so did Montana, Elway and Favre. To say that you can put any Qb in there and the Pats would win is wrong. In fact, no QB in the NFL can do what Brady does. Brady is undefeated (17-0) when he team is trailing by less than 7 points and he has the ball with less than 3 minutes left in the game! That is amazing. Ask any coach who they would want behind center when the chips are down and most would tell you Brady. He is the best QB today. </p>
<p>Just look at his records:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>9-0 playoff record as a starter, best start ever</p></li>
<li><p>7-0 overtime record, best in NFL history.</p></li>
<li><p>57-14 as a starter (.80282), best winning percentage for a QB in NFL history with 40 or more starts.</p></li>
<li><p>Best playoff winning streak in NFL history. 9 wins in a row, ties Bart Starr.</p></li>
<li><p>QB of 21 game winning streak, longest in NFL history</p></li>
<li><p>Brady's Patriots set an NFL record by scoring first in 23 consecutive games before 49ers scored on opening drive of final regular season game of 2004-05 season.</p></li>
<li><p>Brady was the first player to have his photo placed on John Madden's Horse Trailer for MNF player of the game.</p></li>
<li><p>Brady is the first quarterback in NFL history to start and win two Super Bowls before his 27th birthday, having quarterbacked the Patriots to victories in Super Bowl XXXVI when he was 24 years old and Super Bowl XXXVIII when he was 26 years old. He's also the first to win 3 Super Bowls before his 28th birthday -- including Super Bowl XXXIX.</p></li>
<li><p>Brady attempted the first 162 passes of his career without an interception. It was the longest streak to start a career in NFL history.</p></li>
<li><p>Brady has the lowest interception percent in NFL postseason history 3/304 (0.99%) moving him ahead of Bart Starr (1.41%), Steve McNair (2.145%) and Phil Simms (2.151%).</p></li>
<li><p>Brady has orchestrated 17 game-winning drives to break a tie or take the lead in the fourth quarter or overtime. Five of his game-winning efforts have come in the postseason. Super Bowl XXXIX is included, since it was 14-14 at the start of the 4th quarter.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Brady has the best regular season winning percentage of any QB in the Super Bowl era with at least 40 starts (playoff records not included):</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Tom Brady 48-14 (.774)</p></li>
<li><p>Roger Staubach 85-29 (.746)</p></li>
<li><p>Joe Montana 117-47 (.713)</p></li>
<li><p>Donovan McNabb 56-23 (.709)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Brady stands alone at the top of the quarterback list for postseason winning percentage:</p>
<p>Playoff records:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Tom Brady 9-0 (1.000) </p></li>
<li><p>Bart Starr 9-1 (.9000) </p></li>
<li><p>Jim Plunkett 8-2 (.8000) </p></li>
<li><p>Joe Theismann 6-2 (.7500) </p></li>
<li><p>Terry Bradshaw 14-5 (.7368) </p></li>
<li><p>Joe Montana 16-7 (.6957) </p></li>
<li><p>Troy Aikman 11-5 (.6875) </p></li>
<li><p>John Elway 14-8 (.6364)</p></li>
<li><p>Donovan McNabb 6-4 (.6000) </p></li>
<li><p>Steve Young 8-6 (.5714) </p></li>
<li><p>Brett Favre 11-9 (.5500)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I really like Steve Young (and his new and improved version, Michael Vick) mostly because they reinvented and destroyed the conception of what it meant to be a QB. Sure, Marino is probably the best throwing QB in history but Young and Vick orchestrate plays that are nothing short of beautiful but stats don't often translate beauty too well.</p>
<ol>
<li>Montana</li>
<li>Elway</li>
<li>Unitas</li>
<li>Graham</li>
<li>Marino</li>
</ol>
<p>Its a good thing someone mentioned Otto Graham. On stats alone its Marino all day. On field direction/championships its Montana. If Brady keeps it up, he will be the best ever. My final list would go:</p>
<ol>
<li>Montana</li>
<li>Graham</li>
<li>Marino</li>
<li>Y.A. Title/Favre</li>
<li>Unitas</li>
</ol>
<p>Brady needs a couple more years under his belt yet.</p>
<p>Bradshaw/Elway/Aikman are a tad overrated just because of the talent that was around them. They wouldn't have been nearly as good on other teams, they had stellar O-Lines and/or RBs.</p>
<p>welshie, is it possible you like steve young because he went to BYU? (i assume thats where you are based on your location.)</p>
<p>If anything, BYU is a mark against him and yes that's where I'm going. :)</p>
<p>Did you know that Steve Young is the great-great-great-great grandson of Brigham Young? (He had like 50 kids by many different wives)</p>
<ol>
<li>Joe Montana</li>
<li>Brett Favre/Dan Marino/Terry Bradshaw/John Elway</li>
</ol>
<p>Yes, joev, I did know that.</p>
<p>1.Staubach at Navy
2.Montana
3.Unitas
4. Marino
5.Elway</p>
<p>Alexandre, your Michigan is showing.</p>
<p>And I really can't take Marino seriously when he hasn't won anything. Kind of like Peyton Manning. They both put up terrific stats against a lot of bad teams and in a lot of games where it didn't matter, but they folded like chairs when the pressure was on.</p>
<p>You know amused, there are many Michigan players I really not not like. Ty Law is one of them. Charles Woodson is another. Drew Henson is yet another. But I really like Anthony Thomas, Dhani Jones, Amani Toomer, Jay Riemersma and Tom Brady. In short, I like the players are that classy and team players. The rest are simply not worth looking up to.</p>