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Terry Bradshaw suggests surprising QB as greatest of all time over Tom Brady

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Terry Bradshaw believes there is one former NFL quarterback who was better than Tom Brady. While recently appearing on former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Tim Green‘s podcast this week, Bradshaw said Otto Graham should be the GOAT over Brady, and he explained why.

“People say, ‘Well, is it really that important?’” Terry Bradshaw said, per Awful Announcing. “I always hear people say, ‘Tom Brady’s the greatest quarterback to ever play.’ OK, is he really? Otto Graham may be the greatest quarterback to ever play. How many titles did Otto win? Look it up. And Tom lost three. I was 4-0. (Joe) Montana was 4-0. Tom was 7-3. Seven minus three is four. Four, four, four. That’s kind of the way I look at it. People are something else. We always want to know who was the best, don’t we?”

Graham played in the NFL from 1946 to 1955 and spent his entire career with the Cleveland Browns. There were no Super Bowls at the time, but Graham led the Browns to four AAFC (All-America Football Conference) championships and three NFL championships.

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Brady won seven Super Bowls with two different teams (New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers) when he played in the NFL from 2000 to 2022. He played in three more Super Bowls, so his 10 Super Bowl appearances are an NFL record. That said, Graham also played in 10 league championship games, meaning he played in a championship game every season he played.

“I’ve never had anyone walk up to me and say, ‘Hey Terry, how many yards did you throw for? How many touchdown passes you got?’ Not one. Not one,” Bradshaw said. “But boy, I’ve had a million of them go, ‘Hey man, where’s your rings?’ So that kind of tells me that’s where the focus should be.”

Bradshaw is right when it comes to an NFL player’s legacy being measured by championships. But Brady is considered the GOAT by many because of the other accomplishments he achieved in his career. The 48-year-old has the NFL record for career QB wins (241), career passing yards (89,214), career passing touchdowns (649), and career playoff QB wins (35). Brady is also the only quarterback to win a Super Bowl in three separate decades.