As the Patriots get set to take on the Colts in the NFL’s best match up this week, ESPN.com journalist Michael Smith has raised an interesting question in his latest column: are we watching the best quarterbacks ever in Tom Brady and Peyton Manning?
It always seems far fetched to say that a player, team or game should be labeled has “the best ever”. However, when you think about what Brady and Manning have done in this league and what is still left to come – wow. Brady already has three rings and is possibly working on another one, while Manning will probably own every NFL passing record when he finally calls it a career. One has taken his team down the field on game winning drives during a Super Bowl ala Joe Montana, while the other is shattering everything we used to link to Dan Marino’s name. And while Marino and Montana were in separate conferences, how lucky is this generation to get the chance to watch Brady vs. Manning virtually every year?
Everybody loves to discuss which QB they’d take if they were starting a franchise today. But bask in the moment for a second that we might be watching the two best signal callers every to play the game.
