Stopping the Coronation

The dust is settling from the Super Bowl loss. Tom Brady's wife stated a firestorm with her criticism of Pats receivers. It was bad enough they lost the game, but now Brady's wife gets involved.

Last week, I was growing very tired of the comparison of Brady to the all-time great quarterbacks. It seems like the only way of judgement is the amount of Super Bowls won by the. Everything else is left out of the equation. That hurts the likes of Dan Marino and Brett Favre.

Somewhere along the line, the "experts" decided that only Super Bowl wins would count and nothing else. They didn't take the era into account. I think it's unfair to compare Brady to Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw. It makes for an interesting discussion, but you can never come up with a firm answer on who was the best.

An entire generation of Jets fans never got to see the impact that Joe Namath had on the game. He might be on the list of the best, but his place in the game has been jaded by images of him as a drunken old man.

If the Pats had won, many would have crowned Brady as the best even if it wasn't true. I'm glad the discussion is over until next season.