[CBFF] Best #4 pick of all time

[Adam Gold]

Don't ignore the SF defense, which was consistently top ten while Montana was their QB.

Adam

>From: Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net>
>Date: 2007/04/26 Thu AM 09:04:37 CDT
>To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
>Subject: Re: [CBFF] Best #4 pick of all time

>Behr, there are plenty of arguments for Payton, but you're not making any of 
>them.
>
>Montana won two Super Bowls before Rice was drafted. His team was 
>consistently elite, always because of its offense. Nobody, nobody was more 
>dangerous in the clutch. He never threw an interception or a fumble in four 
>Super Bowl wins. And his team was downright AWFUL when he was drafted (2-14 
>while he sat behind DeBerg as a rookie).
>
>Third round, by the way.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Steve Behrens" <steve.behrens at gmail.com>
>
>
>> Montana had Rice for his whole career, plus a decent RB and line for much 
>> of
>> it.  Payton had nobody for most of his.  The score would not have been 46 
>> to
>> 10 in the SB had the Pats decided that the one guy they had to stop to 
>> have
>> any kind of a chance to win the game was Payton.  They threw everything at
>> Payton and neglected the rest of the Bears offense.
>>
>> Let Montana wallow with a team as thin on talent as Payton did and then
>> let's see if he puts up HOF numbers....
>>
>> -Behr
>>
>>
>> On 4/25/07, Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Joe Montana?
>>>
>>> Being a fan, I'd always pick Payton for my team, but my head tells me 
>>> that
>>> Montana did just a bit more for his team.
>>>
>>> Please don't hurt me.
>>>
>>> On 4/24/07, Victor Waldron <victor19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Can you seriously think of a #1 that would have been better??
>>> >
>>> > V
>>> >
>>> > On 4/24/07, Jason Cetina <jason at cetinas.org> wrote:
>>> > > #34. Love it.
>>> > >
>>> > > http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft07/news/story?id=2847606
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