Are the Patriots the best team ever

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

I was enjoying the Article until it started with the whole Belichek cheating thing.....that was just an assenine argument

You can't match a team up from 30 or 40 years ago and say they would beat the Pats now. Just the fact that everbody now is Bigger, Faster, and Conditioning and Training is at a higher Level than ever before.

All those teams mentioned were Great in their Day, no Doubts. I was actually a Big fan of the Steelers growing up, but there's no way to say who would beat who. As great as the Steel Curtain defense was, how many 300lb+ Linemen did they come up against?


Greatest team in the 60's - Packers
Greatest team in the 70's - Steelers
Greatest team in the 80's - 49'ers
Greatest team in the 90's - Cowboys
Greatest team in the 00's - Patriots

EXCELLENT, The Dad!

While i do agree that the best way to recognize GREATNESS in the NFL
is within each dynasty, and by their respective decades, doesn't 4 Lombardi's AND 19-0:
A.) place them in the rarified air of Bradshaw's Steelers, and Montana's Niners?
B.) excepting that neither one of those teams EVER went undefeated, as we all know.

Bradshaw repeated 2 times, and holds 2 SB MVP's.
Montana repeated 1 time, and holds 3 SB MVP's.

Trying to remain objective here, not greedy, in my view if Brady wins this one of '08 he will be equal to the Greatness of #16 and #12; with one major proviso, commanding the single best season this game has ever seen accredited to his brilliant stats!!! This would give him the slight edge, not accounting for who gets this year's MVP (Moss, Stallworth, Maroney, etc). If he does add a 3rd SB MVP to his accomplishments that would also factor in.

The future holds promises of Greatness, as well. If this pace continues (ie., 1 or 2 more SB wins, another repeat, some more MVP's) from the top of THE franchise to the bottom, then we are in store for a TRULY prolific ride into a Level of Supremacy that only the Yanks, the Habs, and the Celts can identify with.

Ahhhhhh yes, how sweeeeet the smell of victory and how calloused the hands of humility; without which,
True Champions cannot bear their cherished responsibility, nor divine their elusive glory.