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This grizzled scribe is finally giving up on Joe Montana and giving the due to the new GOAT, Tom Brady. I've watched all 51 Super Bowls and the Ice Bowl where the Packers beat the Cowboys and the Packers win over the Browns.
As a kid the Packers were the Gold Standard. 5 NFL championships by Lombardi and Starr with only one loss.
The Steelers got 4 out of 6
The Niners got 4 and Joe became the GOAT.
But what Brady has done is inarguable at this point. Yesterday was pretty special
I still have Lombardi at the top of the Coach GOAT though. When Bellichck can win 3 in a row we'll talk. And blowing the 2007 perfect season was unacceptable.
What the hell was going on out there?
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For the coaching, I think you're being a little harsh on them losing the perfect season. I don't think you can coach around what the Giants did. The Giants rushed 4 and got to Brady. There's not a coaching fix for that. And it still took the most ridiculous catch in the history of catches to beat the Pats.
Besides the fact that Lombardi never had to play a ranked Oregon State, He also never needed to win 3 playoff games to win a Championship.
Rams, Cowboys, Raiders in the SB
The five titles before 67 just don't compare to modern titles though. There were literally 14 teams in the league. It was barely one step above winning the Pac12.
Those 14 teams had Unitas and Jim Brown and the like.
Baseball is such a weird game that deemphasizes winning as a criteria for great players.