Opposing teams were allowed to injure Montana and he had to stand back there and take it like all other qbs of that time.Because when people post "Montana had the greatest WR of all time," they usually say it as "of course Montana was great look who he had to throw it too."
Montana's only bad regular seasons were his rookie year (where he only started 1 game), his second year where they threw him in as a starter halfway through (and both those seasons, SF was still rebuilding the team completely), and the strike-shortened season of 1982 that was screwy all around for the league.
Montana also had that spinal injury back in 86 that was deemed so bad at first doctors wanted him to retire. He ended up coming back halfway through that season and ended up going 6-2.
Tammy would turtle at the first sight of LT coming to break his girly arms.
No one of any reasonable intelligence could really debate Montana versus Brady. Hell no qb since Montana compares to him. I can't speak of the ones before him since I did not see them play. He is surely better than Bradshaw though, despite them having equal number of SBs. And I say that as a Steelers fan.