frydaddy

It's a sad day when Stephen A. Smith is the voice of reason..

dam1953

Agree. The other two are idiots. FYI, Payton Manning may have 2 rings, but he only won 1. The Denver D won the other because he sucked in that game. The only reason Denver got a ring was because Cam choked.

13 of 23 for 104 yards passing and 3.7 yards per pass. Sad show for someone who is better than Brees.

Face to face, when it mattered most, Brees beat Manning. Nuf said.

Oh yea. Manning played most of his home games indoors. I guess that is only an issue when your looking at Brees' numbers.

burningmetal

Yeah, it is kind of funny how they forgot Peyton played indoors at Indy.

Also, he wasn't very good in the playoffs in his first super bowl run (though better than the second one), as I remember. And we know how "well" he played in most of his other playoff appearances. Not to mention, of all of the QB's being mentioned in this silly "greatest of all time" discussion people keep having, I would say Peyton and Montana had by far the most legit talent. Brees has had some stars along the way, and sometimes gets too much credit from some Saints fans, in my opinion, as if they believe he's had nothing but recycled garbage to play with. But he also hasn't exactly been loaded with what people would call "thoroughbreds", either.

Peyton had Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark and Edgerrin James, among others, for a long time in Indy. Then he had that loaded stable of receivers in Denver for a couple of years, before some of them, as well as himself, began to fall apart physically, and his defense had to carry the team.

Putting Brett Favre ahead of ANY of the main guys in this discussion is a joke, to me. Obviously he had a very good career, but he has a lot of strikes against him when it comes to comparing him to other greats. He and Brees both were/have been known to turn it over too much over the course of their careers, but Brees is far more accurate, otherwise, and has been more consistent. Favre really limped through his last five years or so, with the exception of that '09 season in Minnesota. He was more of a compiler than any of these guys.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.