BobDigital
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I saw Montana play. In no way am I trying to diminish him. I think you can take the top 6 "all time" QBs (Baugh, Graham, Starr, Unitas, Montana, Brady) and make an argument for every one of them. As a matter of fact, while the part about Brady is incomplete due to the date of the article, CHFF did a pretty good job of laying out that group. If you just ignore their final rankings, you get solid arguments about each of the 6:
http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/content/the-definitive-list-top-10-nfl-quarterbacks/6376/
That being said, I think that, when you see someone arguing "4-0 is better than 4-2!" as the basis for one QB's superiority over another, you're looking at someone who's bias is overruling his objectivity. As I noted earlier, such an argument essentially says that you're a better QB if you lose in the earlier rounds than if you lose in the Super Bowl. Taken to its logical extreme, that argument sets up as irrefutable the argument that Trent Dilfer is the better QB when compared to Brady (1-0 in SBs v. 4-2), and would have to be looked at as the better QB even if Brady won the next 6 SBs in a row, because Brady can never achieve a 100% success rate.
My Ratings currently are
(Pre-SB QBs) #4 Baugh #3 Graham #2 Unitas #1 Starr &
(Post SB QBs) #3 Staubach #2 Montana #1 Brady.
If I were to make an argument for Montana it would not be the 4-0 vs 4-2 which is silly but the fact he that per season he was more accomplished. It took Brady from 01-14 to win 4 titles and Montana was perhaps more dominate in a shorter period meaning if he played as long as Brady IE in a game where he was more protected he might have got more than 4. However I could also just argue the other way that due to the era he played in his team was more stacked. So were other teams but that also means if all you have to do is worry about being 1 other great team a year to get to the big show and then destroy the generally weak AFC rep you perhaps had pretty good odds.
Staubach i think is underrated too. He went up against what is IMO the most dominate dynasty ever (the 70s Steelers which were amazing for 6-7 years).