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Tom Brady

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HoFBound90 Newbie

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just having this debate with a few friends. People are going to completely forget about peyton soon and crown brady when in reality, head too head versus in qb stats peyton crushes brady. Brady is still a hofer and top qb ever but he is not as good of a qb as peyton and only gets that title by default now.

Brady is a hof qb in one of the best systems and coaching staffs ever in the nfl. Hell even Cassell lead the patriots to finish with an 11-5 season in it. Brady has always had a better team then peyton, but manning is the better qb by pure qb skills.

hell of a night fot tom though,

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Not a fair comparison. Peyton is a better pure and technical then brady can hope to be. The only fair judgment is stats. Yes winning is everything for a TEAM but when comparing a players ability to pass the ball you can only use his stats.

From online research( mostly bleacher but you can't discredit numbers as you can their opinion articles, because numbers don't lie/change):

Peyton Manning: 2,464-of-3,880 (63.5%) for 29,460 yards; 216 TD passes, 120 INT's, 213 rushing attempts for 620 rushing yards, 9 rushing TD's, 38 fumbles (13 lost).

Tom Brady: 2,293-of-3,639 (63.0%) for 26,364 yards; 197 TD passes, 86 INT's, 267 rushing attempts for 533 yards, 5 rushing TD's, 65 fumbles (29 lost).

The Verdict: Peyton Manning had a slightly higher completion percentage. He threw for 3,096 more yards and 19 more touchdowns. Manning also threw 34 more interceptions. Brady on the other hand fumbled 27 more times than Manning, losing 16 more fumbles than Manning did.

The statistics presented above in the regular season are actually not as close as you'd think. I'll compare 2001-2007 to give you a more in-depth analysis.

In five out of those seven seasons, Manning had the higher completion percentage.

In five of the seven seasons, Manning passed for more yards.

In five of the seven seasons, Manning threw more touchdowns.

In four out of the seven seasons, Manning threw less interceptions.

In five out of the seven seasons, Manning fumbled less (once they were tied).

In five out of the seven seasons, Manning had the higher quarterback rating.

But if you want to look at the career numbers...

Manning has passed for over 4,000 yards nine times, Brady has only done so twice.

Manning has thrown over 30 touchdown passes four times, Brady has only done so once.

Manning has completed over 65 percent of his passes seven times, Brady has only done so once.

Manning has posted a quarterback rating over 90.0 eight times, Brady has only done so three times.

--This shows manning is a better qb.

I like to compare it almost to a aikman vs marino type debate where dan was better but aikman got the superbowl wins because of having a better team and coaching staff. (And no I am not saying troy is better than brady it is just a reference that fits).

Tom will finish as a top 5 qb but the superbowl wins in a large part are basically because of bellicheat, his unbelievable coaching staff and the highly underrated all around team brady always had compared to manning.

So go ahead and say sb> all but it is not really relevant when discussing who is the better passer.

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