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I'd take any of these guys in their prime before I'd want Favre on my team:
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Jim Kelly
Drew Brees
Aaron Rodgers
Jim McMahon
Troy Aikman
Steve Young
Boomer Esiason
Seriously, I think Favre is the most overrated professional athlete of all time.
Why? I don't think he's the greatest ever but I don't know many who think that either.
It's too early to say on Brees and Rodgers. Esiason and McMahon aren't even in the conversation. I can see the arguments for Kelly, Aikman and Young, but at his height, Favre played at a higher level than all of them. Aikman was a winner but never won the MVP. Kelly never won a SB nor an MVP. And unlike those three, there were times when Favre was all the Packers had and he carried them on his shoulders.
Favre had great physical skills, but he was reckless and absolutley horrible at reading defenses. And all else equal, I would still rather have Esiason or McMahon in their prime than Favre in his.
Well even though like i said earlier before,this thread starter has made this exact thread at LEAST once before already in the past, here goes since everybody else is replying to it..totaly agree.could not have said it better myself.Favre while he always made some incredible plays,also made a lot of boneheaded decisions in big games those other quarterbacks you listed did not.That costly interception against the saints in the NFC game was typical of Favre over his entire career.It wasnt just that one game where he made such a boneheaded decision that cost them a game.When he played on the road in the playoffs,most the time,that was typical of his play being so reckless and undisiplined.Thats what kept him from advancing to more superbowls in the playoffs was his recklessness.