If the Vikings win the Super Bowl - is Favre the G.O.A.T?

[Philly Diehard]

Interesting, but 2 rings would still be < than Montana

The fact that he got there with the average team around him was a miracle. You can only do so much for your team with the team you have.

I have seen Favre lose way to many critical games making stupid mistakes that I just can't put him in the top 5. Every quarterback makes dumb mistakes but his mistakes are HUGE and are in HUGE moments in games.

Per example (As i'm an Eagles fan) in overtime of the 4th and 26 game he throws on 2nd down a completely retarded 60 yard bomb down the field and not 1 reciever was within 10 yards of the ball.

As a result, Dawkins easily picked it off and ran into fieldgoal range. It seems that he's getting better as he's getting older with limiting the mistakes but right now when I think of Favre I think of a high risk-high reward type of guy.

Top 10? Yes. Fringe. Around the 8-12 range, probably around the 8-10 range. If you were a Packers fan (Or, Vikings fan right now) you'd probably say top 5.

[FirstTimer]

LOL at Joe Namath being ranked higher than Favre. Along with Terry Bradshaw Namath is one of the most overrated QB's in history.

[mgoblue2290]

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No. Not even top 5.

I have no matter what happens this year..:

-Joe Montana
-John Elway
-Steve Young
-Jonny Unitas
-Joe Namath
-Dan Marino
-Payton Manning

Ahead of him.

Joe Namath is not better than Brett Favre. Joe Namath doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Favre or most of the guys on your list.

[NAHSTE]

LOL at Joe Namath being ranked higher than Favre. Along with Terry Bradshaw Namath is one of the most overrated QB's in history.

Yeah, after the game last night they said Sanchez already has as many career playoff victories as Namath? That's staggering, although Namath didn't really have playoffs at one point in his career, you'd still think he'd have more than 2 career wins.

[FirstTimer]

Yeah, after the game last night they said Sanchez already has as many career playoff victories as Namath? That's staggering, although Namath didn't really have playoffs at one point in his career, you'd still think he'd have more than 2 career wins.

Also tough to say he's better than Favre when he threw for more TD's than INT's in his career when you had a guy like Unitas lighting up the NFL at the same time using the same rules.

Namath is overrated as hell.

He also has a sub .500 career record as a starter...

[MrBill]

It would certainly build the case for him to be GOAT, even though with a Superbowl win, 3 MVP's and every meaningful QB related record...it's not hard to make a case for him as GOAT before this season.

My GOAT list looks something like this, in no particular order after Montana.

Montana
Elway
Favre
Marino
Manning
Brady

Favre is on a mission to win the Superbowl. The man feeds off of being slighted and having the best season of his career followed by the media fawning over Manning for MVP just stoked the fire a little more. Don't look now but he is the highest rated QB in the postseason right now....107.7 in the regular season and 134.4 in the postseason.

[Hasselbeck]

The fact that he got there with the average team around him was a miracle. You can only do so much for your team with the team you have.

I have seen Favre lose way to many critical games making stupid mistakes that I just can't put him in the top 5. Every quarterback makes dumb mistakes but his mistakes are HUGE and are in HUGE moments in games.

Per example (As i'm an Eagles fan) in overtime of the 4th and 26 game he throws on 2nd down a completely retarded 60 yard bomb down the field and not 1 reciever was within 10 yards of the ball.

As a result, Dawkins easily picked it off and ran into fieldgoal range. It seems that he's getting better as he's getting older with limiting the mistakes but right now when I think of Favre I think of a high risk-high reward type of guy.

Top 10? Yes. Fringe. Around the 8-12 range, probably around the 8-10 range. If you were a Packers fan (Or, Vikings fan right now) you'd probably say top 5.

I can't really type my feelings about this post into words so I'll use a picture instead..

[FirstTimer]

It would certainly build the case for him to be GOAT, even though with a Superbowl win, 3 MVP's and every meaningful QB related record...it's not hard to make a case for him as GOAT before this season.

My GOAT list looks something like this, in no particular order after Montana.

Montana
Elway
Favre
Marino
Manning
Brady

Favre is on a mission to win the Superbowl. The man feeds off of being slighted and having the best season of his career followed by the media fawning over Manning for MVP just stoked the fire a little more. Don't look now but he is the highest rated QB in the postseason right now....107.7 in the regular season and 134.4 in the postseason.

The lack of Unitas on this list gets a groan.

[SuperKevin]

Personally I would put Dan Fouts in my top 10 list

[trojan49er]

No...Montana, Young, Elway, Unitas, Manning, Marino, and probably Brady ahead of Favre imo. Favre has cost his team too many games to even sniff the #1 spot

[killgod]

Putting Brady ahead of Favre is silly. Even as a Patriots homer I can't agree with that.

But Favre ahead of Montana is impossible by the laws of football. So this discussion is utterly pointless on how you rank em.

[Epidemik]

Brett Favre = toughest motherfucker ever to grace the gridiron.

[Philly Diehard]

I do agree that I shouldn't have included Namath in the mix nor do I know why I did. However I still stand by my stance of the others being ranked ahead of him.

Ofcourse you could use the 'Unitas dominated an era where there wasn't much QB competition' and such but what I say is that although the speed is faster in todays game, they protect the QB more then ever. Todays game is an offensive game, back when Unitas played it was more of a run-run-pass style of game.

[trojan49er]

I'd argue McNair was tougher, he played through so many damned injuries, especially during the Titans Superbowl run, it was ridiculous

[SuperKevin]

Brett Favre = toughest motherfucker ever to grace the gridiron.

Jack Youngblood says Brett Favre is a pussy