Top 10 Super Bowl quarterback matchups of all time Where does Tom Brady
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Right or wrong, when it comes to the NFL, it's so often all about the quarterbacks. That's especially true of the Super Bowl, perhaps never more so than this year with Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers preparing to "host" Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs. Even these former Super Bowl MVPs are excited. Mahomes, whose only playoff loss came at Brady's hands, expressed his admiration for TB12 before the game."I mean the way he’s able to dissect defenses before the snap is something that I truly admire, that I’m trying to get to that level," Mahomes said. "The way he’s able to move within the pocket and to be able to reset his feet and to be completely calm and still make the throw right on the money, no matter who’s around him, is something that I’ll have continue to work on and as I continue in my career."I’m going to try to do whatever I can to watch tape on him because he’s doing it the right way, and you can tell by the Super Bowl championships he has and rings on his fingers.”Brady reciprocated Monday, when he and Mahomes jointly appeared on NFL Network."He just has a great awareness of the pocket. Incredible vision of the field, he knows exactly when to get rid of the ball. He's got great poise in the pocket," Brady said."He's got that nice, sweet little whippy arm that I used to have when I was a little bit younger. He's got the athletic ability to extend plays. He's got all the physical and he's got all the mental tools. He's gonna be in this game quite a few more times in my opinion."Helps set the table for what should be one of the greatest quarterback matchups ever on Super Sunday. Where does it rank, at least in terms of pre-game QB hype (as opposed to on-field performance)? Here's my top 10:Super Bowl 23 was one of the first truly riveting Super Sundays, the San Francisco 49ers edging the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 after Montana threw the game-winning TD pass with 34 seconds remaining. For "Joe Cool," the game brought a third ring. For Esiason, the league MVP that season (1988), the what-could-have-been moment represented the zenith of his 14-year career. Following the 2009 season, Manning won league MVP honors for the fourth time with the Indianapolis Colts (he'd win it one final time in 2013 for the Denver Broncos). However Brees – he led the NFL with a 70.6% completion rate, 34 TD passes and a 109.6 passer rating that season – was Super Bowl 44's MVP, getting the better of New Orleans native Manning and leading the Saints to their first-ever title just four years after Hurricane Katrina threatened the franchise's future in The Big Easy. They were among the league's elite QBs in 1989, Montana seeking a fourth ring and a Super Bowl repeat to end a season when he was named league MVP. Elway, the MVP two years earlier, was seeking a championship breakthrough after willing the Broncos to the big game for the third time in four seasons.
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