Brady and Staubach have a number of things in common....

[RecoveringCowboy]

Remember where I came from.

• Both wear #12
• Both usually wear a silver, white and blue uniform (Roger had a red stripe on his helmet at times)
• Both have been nicknamed Captain America
• Both became starters mid-season and went on to win their team it's first SB and be that game's MVP...the QB they benched got traded by next year.
• Both are practicing Catholics
• Brady's priest prayed for his next game after KC crushed them in 2014 (then won big over Cincinnati) - Staubach had a Hail Mary Pass that beat Minnesota in the 1975 playoffs.
  
• A Belichick has coached both of them - Steve with Roger - Bill with Tom.
• Both have a low interception rate
• Both made the NFL's All Decade Team
• One is HoF 1st year eligible...the other will be - no doubt
• Both are on the short list of QBs than can come from behind in the 4th quarter. IMHO, the acid test of a championship QB.
• Both know Belichick well (from Roger's Navy days and is a BB fan)
• Both played for aloof, system-oriented HCs, that gave them the best preparation for a game, preference for defense. Landry and Belichick discouraged players to talk smack and give opponents motivation.
• Both have signed contracts significantly less than what they could have asked.
• Both have spent their entire career on one team (so far)
• Both are the #1 player for their team
• Brady would be beaten twice in the SB by the Giants - Staubach would be beaten twice in the SB by the Steelers.
• Of QBs that started 50 or more games, Brady has the highest winning percentage at ,774, followed by Staubach at .746 (as of 11/1/2014.) The only QBs to win roughly 3 out of 4 games as starters.

Belichick is right: He is very fortunate to have had Brady as a QB

 

[DarrylS]

• Both come from America
• Both graduated from High School
• Both had two parents
• Staubach became a starter in 1971 and Brady became a starter in 2001
• Both have children..

Sounds kind of like freaky friday...

 

[lurker1965]

Reminds me of those Lincoln-Kennedy lists. You know, Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, Kennedy once threw up in his secretary's Lincoln... [ducks]

Also, Rodger won Super Bowls but lost twice to the same team.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Staubach was drafted 129th overall in the tenth round (8 other QBs taken before him)
Brady was drafted 199th overall in the sixth round (more teams and comp picks) (6 other QBs taken before him).

 

[FirstAndGoal]

When was Brady named "Captain America"??? I've never heard anyone call him that.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

^ Google this > https://www.google.com/search?q=tom brady captain america&oq=tom brady captain america&aqs=chrome..69i57.7880j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8


Tom Brady vs. Captain America in Another Action Figure Showdown - iSports Times

 

[Danger Zone]

Great fun.

It'll be even more exciting when we starting comparing all the similarities between Brady and Garrapolo.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

It's the offseason, so I'll accept this thread.

 

[BobDigital]

You can do that all day i guess if you look closely enough. It can be fun. Someone else they have in common is they are 2 of the top 3 QBs of all time imo.

#1 Montana #2 Brady (for now) #3 Staubach. I don't like to go into QBs who played a lot in the 60s as it was such a different game and i don't have enough info on them.

 

[lurker1965]

When was Brady named "Captain America"??? I've never heard anyone call him that.

 

[lurker1965]

Great fun.

It'll be even more exciting when we starting comparing all the similarities between Brady and Garrapolo.

OMG. Garrapallo IS like Danny White... [ducks]

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

OMG. Garrapallo IS like Danny White... [ducks]

....I was thinking along the lines - his alma mater is the same as Tony Romo's - hope he did not get infected.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

 

[fxkane]

"Both played for aloof, system-oriented HCs, that gave them the best preparation for a game, preference for defense. Landry and Belichick discouraged players to talk smack and give opponents motivation."

I am in tune with the comparison, esp the above points. But Staubach vanished more into his system than does Tom, and as a result, seemed less flashy, both in life, and on the field. Staubach was called a "system quarterback" much longer than was Tom. I guess it was his military background, and his Catholic discipline--kind of the quiet hero type.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Loved Staubach & his coach. They are missed.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

I finally got around to watching Captain America: The 1st Avenger.

Steve Rogers had to put on some weight to become CA...so did TB to become become starting QB.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Thanks to the OP for this thread. I like it when we have a serious discussion out here that acknowledges that the NFL didn't start up in 2001, even though we do occasionally stray into a conversation about Joe Montana (1980+)...too much to hope for a "Bart Starr might the GOAT" thread (emphasis on "might," but it's a legitimate topic), and this thread is pretty darn good.

The interesting thing about the QB's who are on anyone's short list for GOAT is that most of them seem to have had careers that coincided with other great teams or players.

In Staubach's case it was Noll's Steelers and Terry Bradshaw. He lost to them twice in the SB and lost his first SB to Johnny U. He beat another HOFER (Bob Griese) for one of his two wins. I laugh when people say that Staubach "only" won two SB's...of the five in which he played. Losing to Bradsahw, Noll and Griese ain't exactly losing to a pickup team. And, as we all know, getting to the Conference or League Championship game is a big mountain to climb, year-in and year-out; the Landry/Staubach Cowboy's and the Belichick/Brady Patriots simply defied the odds in doing it so often.

BTW, Joe beat Elway x2 and Marino once. Again, not shabby.

Brady's career has coincided with another great, Peyton Manning; TB, too, has been bedeviled by a team that gives the Pats fits in the big game. Eli isn't in anywhere near the same league as Unitas or Bradshaw or Griese or Marino or his own brother, so it will be interesting to see how Football historians sort that out...bad luck (Tyree's catch and Welker's drop)? A couple of great plays by the other guys (Eli to Manningham)? Or maybe a combo of both?

Thanks for the thread.

 

[manxman2601]

I wanted to post this but didn't feel this was worth a thread of it's own so thank you OP.

Fmr President Gerald Ford or Tom Brady?



Uncanny huh?