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Brady in the Same Class as Montana

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One quarterback, a certifiable legend, could always lean on the creative offensive mind of a Bill Walsh or a Sam Wyche or a Mike Holmgren.

The other, a legend still in the making, has spent his entire career alongside a terrific defensive mind, Bill Belichick.

One became a Hall of Famer while flipping to the likes of Jerry Rice and John Taylor and Dwight Clark and Brent Jones and Roger Craig.

The other generated his credentials by winging it to ... Deion Branch and David Givens and Troy Brown and David Patten.

So Patriots quarterback Tom Brady deserves, at the very least, to breathe the same rarefied air as Joe Montana, the People's Favorite among legendary 49ers. Such...

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