Shannon Sharpe: “Why do you think Tom Brady is the sixth toughest quarterback you’ve ever had to defend?”
Tony Dungy: “First of all, I don’t think you can rank across generations so I said I’m not going to do that, and I’m not going to go by statistics or whatever, I’m just going to go by who was the toughest on ME. To start, I’m never putting Tom Brady ahead of Peyton Manning, so the best he can be is two because Peyton was my guy. So then I started thinking ‘who gave me real problems?’ John Elway – you could do everything right and have the perfect defense and he’s going to move around, and make something happen, and kill you, and he killed me enough. He was difficult. Steve Young was the same way. Those mobile quarterbacks, so that’s who I put ahead of Tom. Aaron Rodgers, John Elway, Steve Young; guys who could move. Not to say Tom wasn’t great, he is great, but that extra dimension meant something to me, and that’s why I would only put him at six.”
Former Super Bowl Champion player and head coach Tony Dungy made headlines this week for an appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s ‘Club Shay Shay’ podcast where he listed Tom Brady as the ‘sixth-best’ quarterback he’s ever faced behind players the likes of Peyton Manning, John Elway, Steve Young, and Aaron Rodgers.
The comments were obviously controversial considering Brady has won a record 6 Super Bowl Championships, the same amount of Super Bowls the four other quarterbacks he mentioned won as starters combined, and that fact that he was 5-3 vs. Dungy-coached Colts teams, including 2-1 in the playoffs.
Brady clapped back later that day with a classic troll job of Dungy, taking to Twitter to post a picture of a Colts ‘2014 AFC finalist’ banner that hangs out Lucasoil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The jab was obviously in reference to the Patriots’ 45-7 victory over the Colts in the 2015 AFC Championship Game, but Dungy hadn’t been a member of the Colts coaching staff since 2008.
Listen to Nick Wright, guest-hosting for Colin Cowherd on The Herd, explain why he thinks Dungy ‘has a point.’
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