Anyone who plays as a starter for as many years as brady, has a comfort with the game, and a sense of urgency to get to the superbowl. i would assume in Rodgers final years, he too will be as awesome as brady.
I don't think so. There's a false equivalency here in many ways.
First, I guess you're sort of saying "Rodgers wasn't as awesome as Brady in his first 4 years
as a starter or thereafter to date but in his final years he will be." Or, you're arguing that a VERY good QB (Rodgers) is therefore the equivalent of Brady, who is also a VERY good QB.
I think you
mean that Rodgers, too, will likely improve with age. Yet we see much more often the opposite happens with QBs. And what we've seen with Rodgers is that if he's missing a weapon, he's like "that's it man, game over" by comparison with Brady.
Give Brady stars at WR and he makes them superstars. Give Brady scrubs and he makes them stars. Give him Reche Caldwell, and he makes him a good #2 receiver - a stretch for Reche (God love the glandular freak), but as it turns out not what we needed (a #1 receiver).
What makes Brady the GOAT is that his raw athletic ability is on a par with the best QBs (talking the arm here, rather than running ability), or at least was during the pitch-and-catch-to-Moss days. He's peaked physically.
He does not care. He'll will himself to keep being better. Last year it was ratcheting up his release time. This year he wants to be a little more "escapable." He's constantly looking for one more way to carry the offense forward no matter what he faces. There's no "wahhhhh my O-Line is banged up" or "Wahhhh my receivers are banged up." He took time in the beginning of '14 to get used to the fact that Mankins was really gone. I think he learned from that. It reminded him that no matter how bad it looks TRUST will allow him to get the best out of any given crew. He expects the best of those around him and because he never stops learning and growing, he gets it.
I don't think if you swapped them in time and plopped them in each others' positions, the equivalency would hold up. I don't think Aaron Rodgers makes David Patten or David Givens household names. Maybe Troy Brown, sorta. I don't think Rodgers makes or wins that first SB when Drew goes down.
He's stats-good, and he's a good QB and a good leader.
That doesn't make him Tom F. Brady... it might take the tale of time to get people's heads around just what we're seeing here.
But hey I am a homer.
