The conference championship round won't just be a battle between the top-four scoring teams in football. It'll also be a battle of the old vs. the new. On Sunday, 24-year-old will lead the into New Orleans to take on the Orlando Pace Jersey (3:05 p.m. ET, Fox, , try for free), who are quarterbacked by 40-year-old . Later on Sunday (6:40 p.m. ET, CBS, ), 23-year-old quarterback will welcome 41-year-old and the Patriots into Arrowhead, . The final four is a doozy. , but he's going up against arguably the greatest quarterback of all time in Brady. It's the 's version of Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader (I'm not required to drop one Star Wars reference per article, but I'll do it anyway). Brees is the likely MVP runner-up, and he's tasked with taking down a quarterback in Goff who threw for 4,688 yards and 32 touchdowns in his third NFL season. For as much as we talked about defenses mattering as teams like the and began to emerge as contenders in December, it remains true that the NFL is a quarterback-driven league in which great offensive play usually wins out over great defensive play. The Chiefs, Rams, Saints, and led the league in scoring. Their offenses all finished Their defenses This is the most offensive-sided final four in NFL history.The Chiefs, Rams, Saints, and Patriots are the top-4 scoring teams in the NFL.Meanwhile, on defense, the Saints, Rams, Patriots, and Chiefs rank 14th, 19th, 21st, and 31st in yards allowed. Football Perspective (@fbgchase) On Sunday, we should see a display of top quarterback play and peak offensive football. With that in mind, we decided to rank the final four quarterbacks. Just a reminder that while playoff history does matter, it is not the only factor. Recent succe s (put another way, who is playing better right now) matters more. In that sense, this list is more like power rankings. We begin on the younger side of the spectrum. 4. Jared Goff There's no shame in slotting in behind Brady, Brees, and Mahomes, but the unfortunate reality for the Rams is that they're entering the conference championship round with the worst of the remaining four quarterbacks, and quite a large gulf exists between Goff and the three quarterbacks ahead of him. That doesn't make Goff a bad quarterback. It doesn't mean he's unworthy of this stage. It just means he's not nearly as good as Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback of all time, Brees, one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and Mahomes, the best quarterback on the planet right now. Ever since back in Week 11, when Goff threw for 413 yards and four touchdowns, Goff's been a wreck. In the six games since, Goff is completing 58.2 percent of his pa ses and averaging 6.4 yards per pa s. He's thrown six touchdowns and six interceptions Derek Carrier Jersey . In his first 11 games of the season, he completed 67.7 percent of his pa ses, averaged 9.3 yards per pa s, and threw 26 touchdowns and six interceptions. Goff's production hasn't just slipped over the past month or so. It's tumbled over a cliff and sunk to the bottom of the Pacific. What' Clay Matthews Jersey s especially concerning is his performance under pre sure. Every quarterback worsens under dure s, but it's becoming increasingly clear that Goff is unable to operate at a high enough level in the face of pre sure. Even in the win over the Cowboys, during which Goff went 15 of 28 for 186 yards and a 74.4 pa ser rating, Goff regularly looked bothered by pre sure. On this early third-and-goal, Goff faded away from pre sure and threw an uncatchable pa s to his receiver in one-on-one coverage. He also mi sed a chance to exploit mismatch on a slower defender up the seam. Later in the second quarter, pre sure prevented Goff from hitting a wide open target down the left sideline. An illegal hands to the face penalty on the other side of the field wiped away this incompletion, but again, it's an example of Goff making a poor throw as pre sure arrived. Goff is still a young quarterback who should continue to improve as he acquires more experience. He's coached by Sean McVay, who should help him ascend. And he's good enough to help the Rams upset the Saints in New Orleans. But he enters Sunday's slate of games as the worst of the remaining quarterbacks. Again, that doesn't make him bad. But it does make him the worst of the final four by a wide margin. 3. Drew Brees Before the playoffs began, , ahead of Brady. After all, Brees was coming off a regular season in which he completed for3,992 yards (it would've been 4,000 if he'd played in Week 17), 32 touchdowns, five interceptions, and a league-high 115.7 pa ser Rob Havenstein Jersey rating. And it's not like Brees stunk it up against the on Sunday, when he threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns. But . And he hasn't been at his best for the last month or so. During his final four regular season games -- -- Brees completed 69.2 percent of his pa ses, averaged 6.4 yards per pa s, and threw three touchdowns and three interceptions for an 84.7 pa ser rating. During the win over the Eagles, Brees threw one bad interception that would've been a touchdown if he had led his receiver the proper amount. In the third quarter, he mi sed what should've been another easy touchdown. Here's how open was when Brees released the ball. Brees' deep ball was off on Sunday. He's been off his game for the past month, which is why he lost his brief lead over Mahomes in the MVP race. The gap between Brees and Brady isn't that substantial -- they're neck and neck -- but Brady's playoff history vaults him above Brees, for now at least. 2. Tom Brady It's been a down season for Brady and the Patriots by their insanely high standards, which has inspired Brady to think of himself and the Patriots as After thumping the on Sunday to secure their eighth-straight trip to the AFC title game, Brady told CBS' Tracy Wolfson that " ." According to Chase Stuart of Football Perspective, That includes Sunday's win over the Chargers, when the Patriots covered the 3.5-point spread with ease. It was during that game that Brady looked more like his old self, going 34 of 44 for 343 yards, a touchdown, and a 106.5 pa ser rating. He did most Eric Weddle Jersey of his damage underneath, targeting running a whopping 17 times and hitting him 15 times for 97 yards. His pa sing chart, , makes it look like he did nothing but dump the ball off underneath. But it'd be unfair to Brady to suggest that any other quarterback would've made all of those throws. We've seen Brady pick teams apart underneath with White serving as the primary ve sel countle s times. That shouldn't take away from his greatne s. If it were easy, every quarterback would do it. Brady throws so many simple pa ses that gain big yards because of his acumen and timing. The physical throw is easy, the play as a whole is difficult. Cian (@Cianaf) His pocket movement remains fantastic. And he's still capable of hitting pa ses downfield with tremendous timing. Brady has won five Super Bowls, owns a 2