Posted on 01/19/2005 2:45:31 PM PST by bikepacker67
We'll be returning the favor - Bennie's 16 in a row is gonna have a period after it.
I just hope the bridges out of the Pit are girded by suicide hotline types.
Chad will have surgery. He played hurt when he came back. I thought he came back to soon. Jets will be 12-4 next year. Book it!
This comparison is unfairly harsh. One of the major reasons Montana had the rings is that he played on superior teams. The Miami teams in the Marino era never had much of a running game, and were often mediocre defensively. If Marino had played for the 49ers throughout his career, he could have ended up with more rings than Montana.
If I were an NFL general manager back then, I would have taken Marino over Montana any day of the week.
That view of him doing that had me unsettled. I'm guessing/hoping that it wasn't related to internal structural damage
FYI, KDKA just reported that Ben WILL NOT be wearing those ridicules gloves this weekend, thank goodness. They surely had something to do with his accuracy problems against the Jets.
Speaking of accuracy problems, Brady threw 2 horrendous interceptions against the Steelers earlier in the season. Just a reminder for those who have been talkin smack on Ben's two interceptions last week.
Go back and look at what happened the first time Belichik left Parcells . . . his record as the head coach in Cleveland was awful.
Michigan coaching stunk during the Brady years because John Cooper was unavailable....
And the reason the NFL general managers back then did not?
No doubt Montana had help, but to take anything away from him is sour grapes.
Are you going to tell me Marino never choked?
Joe Cool for a reason.
In Indy's first game this year with the Pats, the Colts were on the 1 yard line at the end of the game that TD would have won the game... James fumbled... I guess that was Manning fault as well, sort of like everything is Bush's fault.
If you have the worst defense in the league(like Indy does) Who would you rather have Manning or Brady? That answer is easy...
I do think Brady's a very good quarterback, but let's keep things in perspective here . . . at this point in time, Brady would have the same number of Super Bowl rings as stellar QBs like Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson, and Mark Rypien.
Because Marino was still in high school when Montana was drafted in 1979. Montana was a third-round pick that year -- the 82nd player selected overall, and the fourth quarterback. ;-)
As a Giants fan, I'm one of the few fans who can honestly say that Montana didn't look like a Hall of Famer to me. I know he was a great player, but his post-season record against my team was surprisingly marginal -- including a 49-3 shellacking in the 1986-87 playoffs that is still one of the most lopsided games in playoff history.
On a related note, I'll mention that during his tenure he was so erratic in dealing with his players that many people in the NFL thought he'd never be a head coach again. That's why he went back to doing what he did best -- working as a defensive coordinator.
Brady has two rings...
That's right . . . my mistake. I didn't finish the sentence I originally intended to type -- ". . . were it not for a botched officials' call in that playoff game against the Raiders back in 2002."
Any number of teams, maybe Denver :~), could have picked him up (after he went pro) if they thought he could win SBs.
Postseason from '81 to '90 (Joe as a starter) SF 2 vs. NY 3
SBs? SF 3 vs. NY 1
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