Tom Brady's ex-Patriots teammate makes shock admission in Patrick Mahomes GOAT debate
Tom Brady's ex-Patriots teammate makes shock admission in Patrick Mahomes GOAT debate
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Tom Brady's days as the greatest quarterback in NFL history could be numbered. The league's only seven-time Super Bowl champion has a comfortable lead over just about every other player in that category. Yes, Hall of Famer Charles Haley got five rings with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, but he's been retired since 1999 and the feared pass rusher never played quarterback.
![[Tom Brady's seven Super Bowl rings remain unmatched, but Mahomes is still just 29]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/14/94597545-14305025-image-a-9_1738074719179.jpg)
However, according to one of Brady's former New England Patriots teammates, there is one signal caller with a chance to rival Tom's perceived status as the 'greatest of all time': 29-year-old Kansas City Chiefs legend Patrick Mahomes. 'I've always said, Tom's got seven Super Bowls and until somebody knocks – does something that he hasn't, he's still the man, right?' Retired Patriots and Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri told TMZ. 'But this, we're getting to something that even the great Tom Brady… has not done.'.
![[Brady's idol, Joe Montana (right), thinks Dan Marino (left) is the 'best' quarterback ever]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/14/94597497-14305025-image-m-11_1738074766919.jpg)
With a Super Bowl LIX win over the Philadelphia Eagles on February 9 in New Orleans, Mahomes will have four titles to his name. What's more, he and his Chiefs teammates will become the first team win three consecutive NFL titles since the Green Bay Packers did so from 1965 to 1967. And although the Packers did win the first two Super Bowls at the end of the '66 and '67 seasons, no NFL time has captured three straight Lombardi Trophies in the Super Bowl era.
![[New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady shakes hands with the Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes after the Chief defeated the Patriots, 23-16, in December of 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/14/94597791-14305025-image-a-13_1738074849742.jpg)
For comparison, Tom Brady was already 37 by the time he won his fourth Super Bowl in 2014. Of course, he would miraculously win three Lombardy Trophies in his 40s, the last of which came as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against Mahomes and the Chiefs.
