Tom Brady. He's the best to have ever done it at the most important position on a team. Brady wasn't just a stat filler but he was clearly a leader who required that his teammates elevate their play to a championship level.
If you could build a NFL team around any player past or present, who would you draft?
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I’m with steel man on this one. Marino’s supporting cast was a bunch of nobody’s. Mark Duper and Mark Clayton at WR, guys named Mark Riggs and Lorenzo Hampton at RB. Like seriously other than Keith Jackson at TE and Irving Fryar for a couple of years - Marino had a cast of odds and ends like Brady. Ben had a much better roster around him and that’s not even debatable. Dolphins defense vs Steelers…..come on. The only place where you even have an argument is Shula vs Tomlin/Cowher
Better question may be what non-QB. Someone said Munoz, so I would go with Ogden at tackle. On defense, since white and Taylor got mentioned, Ed Reed.
Heard back in 66 he scored 4 touchdowns for the Polk High Panthers.
PS All kidding aside he was the next door neighbor of my son's Godmother growing up. She said he was a good guy.
Best talent? Other than no running game whatsoever and no defense, they were great. Marino is the only reason those teams ever won anything…see the Dolphins every year since Marino left.
Didn’t the Steelers build their dynasty with mean joe Greene first?
And then benched him and won a SB shortly after he was gone. Sorry, no one benches a QB is he was “the greatest ever”.San Francisco thought so when they built a team around him.
We forget the running and scrambling ability of Ben in his first 8? Years was just ridiculous. where Dan just stood there and passed it for the most part. This is what made ben such a good qb and defenses had to defend against it.
All fair which is why I'm taking Elway but Marino never had the supporting cast that Ben did
still the question remains who do you build around, Montana is who I pick and Bill Walsh wasn't stupid
By 1990 dolphins were good and went 12-4. But they went against bad timing in the bills making their run. They couldn’t break through.
Saying that, Steelers went against ravens and patriots and broke through several times. Steelers players were very good.
There have been a number of QB’s you could build a team around as long as you actually build the team and not overlook things like your running game or your defense because your QB is so good at passing, like Miami did with Marino.