1. Peyton Manning
2. Drew Brees
3. Brett Farve
4. Tom Brady
5. Matt Schaub = Aaron Rodgers
Hard to answer if you are not specific. When you ask who the best quarterback is, what do you mean? Irrespective of their team?
For example, if you took Peyton off of the Colts and put him on the Seahawks, the Seahawks would be respectable. If you did it with Rivers or Brady, they'd still be the Seahawks.....and they'd still suck.
Very easy to say "oh, he's the best! Look at his year"
I love what Farve did this year. Hall of famer, no doubt. But if he didn't have Sidney Rice, would Berrian and the young guy be enough?
Then you have to look at the O-line. How much time does the QB have in the pocket? Although I HATE DEL-HOMIE, his and the Jag's O-line was atrocious this year. The QB can't do anything like that?
All I'm saying is as it is phrased, it is not a simple cut-and-dried question.