Those who grew up watching those legendary San Francisco 49ers teams grew up idolizing Joe Montana.
Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, for instance, fell in love with the game after watching Joe Cool torch opposing defenses left and right.
Montana had often been considered the greatest quarterback of all time or at least a top-3 guy in that position.
However, that’s not what former QB-turned-analyst Dan Orlovsky seems to think.
Orlovsky was under heavy fire recently for snubbing Montana from his top-5 quarterback list.
So, he went on The Dan Patrick Show to justify his take, stating that there’s a difference between an opinion and analysis and that the analysis doesn’t favor Montana’s case for being a top-5 quarterback:
“I think there’s two things if you want to rehash the top-5 QB conversation. He’s not top-20 in yards or touchdowns, that has to matter somewhat,” Orlovsky said. “And then everyone goes to the Super Bowl record, respectively, as they should. The defense gave up 15 points per game in those 4 Super Bowls. That has to be a part of the conversation. Also, that is my opinion thinking (Dan) Marino was probably better. I can put (Troy) Aikman into the conversation, I can put (Drew) Brees into that conversation. We can’t just sit there and say ‘Well, he’s top-5 because he went to 4 Super Bowls.’ You can’t do that. There’s so much more attached to the game.”
Is @JoeMontana a top-five quarterback of all time? @danorlovsky7 isn't so sure. pic.twitter.com/OTtHcEJ25H
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) February 8, 2023
Needless to say, Dan was far from impressed with Orlovsky’s reasoning, even asking him what the hell was wrong with him.
Patrick also stated that this take would follow him and haunt him for the remainder of his career, just like it happened with that infamous safety when he ran out of the endzone.
However, while unpopular, Orlovsky made some valid points in his reasoning.
It is a fact that the Niners had one of the stoutest defenses this game has ever seen and also that Montana’s numbers outside of his Super Bowl record aren’t exactly impressive.
But the content also matters, and Joe Cool would’ve been ten times greater if he had played under this set of rules.
That’s not an analysis, by the way; that’s just a strong opinion.
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