4) Brett Favre: Favre gets the nod as the best quarterback of the decade. The cannon-armed kid out of Southern Miss was the league's MVP from '95 to '97, which is enough to elevate him into the top five. The two things holding him back in our ranking: He played fewer games during the 10-year span in question than absolute legends Rice and Barry Sanders, and he didn't always come up huge in the postseason (against the best competition) like Emmitt Smith's Cowboys. Still, Favre is too often remembered for the way his career ended and not enough for the dynamic player he was in the '90s.