In the 52 seasons of the SB era I feel very comfy ranking Peyton the 3rd best of all-time. Remember I am saying SB era so guys like Johnny Unitas aren't included in this discussion. Unitas's best seasons were before the SB era. So in 52 seasons lets look at things closely, shall we.
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Only 4 QB's have won more SB's than Peyton in which they started the SB - Brady = 5, Montana = 4, Bradshaw = 4, and Aikman = 3. Only 4 by the way, so now lets look at League MVP's and Stats. Out of the QB's that have won as many as Peyton = 2, none of them even come close to him statistically or winning the League MVP's he has.
So that automatically puts Peyton 5th best ever in the SB era even before any debate. Lets look at Peyton vs Bradshaw and Aikman:
Passing Yards - Bradshaw = 27,989, Aikman 32,942, Peyton 71,940
TD's - Bradshaw 212, Aikman 141, Peyton 539
League MVP's - Bradshaw 1, Aikman 0, Peyton 5
-Shit isn't even close! Peyton carried his teams while Bradshaw had the best Defenses of all-time and Aikman had Emmitt Smith do all of his dirty work.
-Montana won at least 2 League MVP's and in an era where it wasn't about a lot of passing he did throw for 40,551 Yards and 273 TD's. Brady also has won at least 2 League MVP's and has stats comparable to Peyton's so yeah those 2 deserve to be rated higher than Peyton. Bradshaw and Aikman - NO, unless the only thing you measure is SB Rings and if anyone only uses that, that is just silly. That would mean Trent Dilfer deserves to be ranked higher than Dan Marino
-Also I will say this, Peyton is 3-1 vs Brady in Championship games, 3-2 overall in Playoff games. The 2 games Brady beat him were when Peyton played in Indianapolis otherwise Peyton would probably be a 4 time Champion. Pats are a dynasty team so losing to them isn't a shame, they beat everyone.
*Drops Mic!