A little surprised that Moss is the least guessed answer. I'm also not sure what the nightshade question is about, but I suspect it's something to do with his odd diet. :-)
I'm glad you asked. There's a very natural metric in which Brady just isn't quite up to snuff:
SBWRAIUSD&RD"TANHWF" (Super Bowl Wins at Retirement Adjusted for Inflation with respect to the US Dollar and Rounded Down because "There Ain't No Half Wins in Football")
@kitshef - A quarterback is no one of those measures but a composite of them all. Rhetorical question: What happens when you average them out for every QB who ever played (minus the ones who haven't thrown enough passes to provide a statistically representative sample)? @Quagga50 - That's awesome. But does the fact that Bart Starr played in a league with literally half as many teams as there are now, and no salary cap, thus limiting the diffusion of talent via free agency (football being a team sport and all), affect the inflation figure?
I don't think this is the kind of thing you can call a "fact." It is a fact that Atlanta is the capital of Georgia. It is a fact that Tom Brady won seven Super Bowls. But "the greatest" is not a fact, but a matter of opinion, even if it is a widely-shared and easily-defended opinion.
Totally agree. The complexity of American football's onfield dynamic, the interdependency of so many moving parts, makes quantifying individual performances just about impossible. Numbers are easy enough to compile, but they never tell the whole story.
Of course not. Football's a game of longevity - I'd be hard pressed to imagine anyone, no matter how great a 7-season stretch they might have, being considered "greatest of all time" at any position they only played for 7 years.
SBWRAIUSD&RD"TANHWF" (Super Bowl Wins at Retirement Adjusted for Inflation with respect to the US Dollar and Rounded Down because "There Ain't No Half Wins in Football")
Bart Starr - 13
Terry Bradshaw - 11
Roger Staubach - 7
Joe Montana - 7
Tom Brady - 7
Completion percentage (Deshaun Watson, or Brees if you only count retired players: Brady is 20th
Passing yards per attempt (Otto Graham): Brady is 33rd
Interception percentage (Rodgers, or Kaepernick if you only count retired players): Brady is 6th
TD percentage: (Sid Luckman): Brady is 25th
TD/Int ratio (Rodgers): Brady is 1st among retired players
4 stars nonetheless