Tony Dungy Thinks Tom Brady is the 6th Best QB of the Last 40 years. At Best.
10 Super Bowl champs with 330 yrs of #nfl experience gave me their top 10 QBs of the past 4 decades. Hope you enjoy. https://t.co/BKldW81v6a
— Mike Sando, ESPN.com (@SandoESPN) July 19, 2017
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So ESPN put together a panel of NFL head coaches and assistants that have won Super Bowls to ask them to rank the Top 10 quarterbacks since 1978. This Jedi Council of experts includes such experts as Pete Carroll, Mike Holmgren, Wade Phillips, Mike Shanahan, Norv Turner and one Tony Dungy.
The list itself isn’t half bad:
1. Brady
2. P. Manning
3. Montana
4. Elway
5. Rodgers
T-6. Marino, Favre
8. Young
9. Brees
10. Fouts
Even though any list that puts Peyton ahead of Montana better hope it was hacked by the Russian if it’s to salvage any credibility. But I’m not here to argue the results. I’m here to argue this:
Brady was first or second on nine ballots, making him a pretty overwhelming choice for the top spot. Dungy threw an interesting curveball. He approached the project as if he were a defensive coordinator drawing up a game plan. Dungy saw skilled passers across the board when looking at the best QBs. He reasoned that those who were also dangerous runners were the toughest quarterbacks to stop, which is why his top three comprised John Elway, Steve Young and Aaron Rodgers. Brady might own the best career credentials, but those other guys presented additional challenges. …
[Dungy]: “It can be tough to separate the great quarterback from the great coach. We have seen this in every era. … I don’t think Bill Belichick would be Bill Belichick without Tom Brady, and Brady would not have the same success without Belichick and the way they have put that team together. But the one common thread through 15 years was Brady. When they had him, they won big — won championships. The quarterback has so much to do with it.” …
I put Manning and Marino at the top of the nonscramblers because they didn’t have the benefit of dominant defenses.”
What a world class turd blossom Tony Dungy is. He’s just a fraud of the highest order and always has been. He gets credit for being a moral, magnanimous, respected Football Guy because he writes kids books and is never more than one sentence away from quoting old scripture about Daniel in the Lion’s Den or whatever. But the truth is he’s just a bitter, spiteful little man who can’t let it go. Even after all these years.
Sure I think arguing who the GOAT is is like putting together a panel to vote on what shape the Earth is. But I’m not an unreasonable man. If someone wants to make a legitimate argument that someone is the GOAT ahead of Brady, I’ll listen. If you start off by citing advanced passing stats or mention how Montana threw zero picks in four Super Bowls, we’re having a good conversation. But Dungy has Brady sixth. SIXTH. At best. He may have him even lower. It’s pathetic.
Just think about how many calories St. Anthony of Indianapolis here must have burned coming up with this “running quarterbacks are hard to defend” argument. It’s because he knew that if he went to his default setting of saying Manning is the best ever, he would’ve gotten laughed out of the room. So he makes up some other criteria, which nobody could possibly believe he believes. Do you think for one hot second that if someone asked him how great his boy Peyton was, he’d be bringing up how much tougher it was to gameplan Elway, Young and Rodgers? And by that logic, wouldn’t Michael Vick, Doug Flutie and Vince Young have been the best quarterbacks of their eras?
Not a chance. With Dungy, this is just pure, uncut, straight-from-the-lab resentment. He spent his whole career in Indy believing that Brady and Belichick were cheating him and he can’t get over it. He had team assistants go diving into the trash in the visitors locker room at Gillette looking for info the Pats could steal and held meetings in the hallway because he thought his office was bugged and it’s still obsessing him. Pathetic.
How else you to interpret that second paragraph? He’s so blind with his need for vengeance he forgot he was being asked about Brady. He was supposed to give the “Brady is only good because of Belichick” argument. But in his confusion, he gave the contradictory “Belichick is only good because of Brady,” which he hangs onto for an entirely different discussion.
It’s just so obvious he has a crippling case of Patriots Derangement Syndrome to this day and every time Bradichick win another ring, a piece of his soul dies. He hated losing to the Patriots like he hated nothing else in his life. He felt cheated, treats every Pats success as the work of Satan himself and can’t bring himself to acknowledge their greatness. In the words of the great Roy Munson, “Do you know what the Bible says about not forgiving people? It’s against it.” Get over it, St. Anthony.