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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
I just disagree that either one of them are the greatest of all time. Unitas, for instance, changed how the game was played. His career was way more impactful on the NFL than either of Manning or Brady. I would take Manning any day over Brady however, as would many non Colt fans i have had this conversation with or read. It is a fun argument, i wish they both were still in their prime-life was better for us then.
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I thought that Manning was greater than Unitas.
Manning was an absolte freak-of-nature in regard to reading defenses, and audibling in and out of plays at the line-of-scrimmage ...... I had never seen anything like that before he came along, or since he retired.
In 2012, Manning ...... in his very first season with a brand- new team ...... took all of 5 games to single-handedly transform a previously mediocre Denver Broncos offense into an offensive juggernaut that resembled the 2005 Indianapolis Colts. In the divisional playoffs against the Baltimore Ravens he put 35 points on the board, and only one of the biggest defensive blunders in the history of professional football post-season play allowed the Ravens to score the game-tying TD on a 70-yard bomb with only 30 seconds left to play and no timeouts to send that game into overtime ...... if not for that blunder, it is highly likely that the Broncos would have easily beaten the Patriots in the AFC championship game that year (like they did the following year in 2013), and won the Super Bowl against the 49ers.
All of that said, I think that an argument can be made for Dan Marino being the greatest quarterback of all-time, and I will get into that in my next post.
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