Tom Brady won’t be the best quarterback the Rams faced this season

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is a first ballot Hall Of Famer, but that doesn’t mean he’s the best QB the Los Angeles Rams faced this season.

Super Bowl LIII will feature the two best coaches in the NFL, significant star power, and two quarterbacks at interesting points in their respective careers. But for the Los Angeles Rams, is Tom Brady the best quarterback they will or have faced this season?

Simply stated, no.

The GOAT as he is too often referred to, is without a doubt a first ballot Hall Of Famer. He is the best quarterback in the history of the New England Patriots, and has a supermodel wife in Gisele. He’s played for a great coach in Bill Belichick and has, to date, five Super Bowl rings.

All that said, Brady isn’t even the best quarterback the Rams will have played against in their 13-3 2018 campaign.

First off all, Los Angeles has already faced Philip Rivers, Drew Brees twice on the road, Russell Wilson twice, Aaron Rodgers, likely 2018 NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes, and 2017 Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles.

Not bad for a Rams team who only lost three games.

Brady at 41 is still the talk of the NFL, and heading into the Super Bowl, the overwhelming conversation will be about the Patriots quarterback and his future.

But as good as he is, Los Angeles faced Brees twice in the Superdome and came away 1-1,  including their win in the NFC Championship Game. They also faced a resurgent Wilson who got the Seattle Seahawks to the playoffs, and Foles who has managed to become more popular and in the short term more successful than the other starter for the Philadelphia Eagles, Carson Wentz.

Now for all the Brady fans who want to circle the wagons at the very mention of criticism, I offer none. But based on who the Rams faced in 2018, the venues of two of those game (Seattle once, New Orleans twice), the stakes of two of those games, and an absolute slugfest with the Kansas City Chiefs, Brady is behind Brees, Mahomes, and Wilson in that order.

Plain and simple.

Does that cement an argument for a Rams win over the Patriots in the Super Bowl?

Absolutely not.

But I don’t expect Los Angeles to be starstruck at the sight of the New England quarterback. Especially when they’ve already faced a few will-be HOF’ers and Super Bowl MVP’s this season.