Who'd have thought back in the 90s when we thought we'd just seen the greatest era of QB accomplishments that Montana would be calling Marino the GOAT (okay, BOAT,) because it was a given HE didn't own the title.
Joe man, just stop. You're still way more impressive than almost anybody just by being in the league, even if it was just as a journeyman QB. To be included in that also-ran tier just beneath Brady should be enough for anybody!
But I understand. The last light of the afternoon sun is still upon you, but you see night descending, like those of use who are of your age cohort. Many of us had no real greatness to see flicker, as Eliot would have it, and still we see the eternal footman hold our coats and snicker, and in short, we are afraid. We make fools of ourselves as well, trying to show that what is not, is.
No Joe, we, like you, are only what we are: limited, mortal, and in the end, ordinary.
Comfort yourself that this feeling is coming for Brady too, except losing that top spot (most likely. But don't tell the Mahomes fans.)