The official retirement of Peyton Manning on Monday – everybody knew for weeks that it was going to happen – has spurred even more discussion on his place among the best quarterbacks of all-time.

Manning is certainly on that list, in whatever order you want to put him with people such as Tom Brady, Dan Marino, Joe Montana and all the rest.

Otto Graham is in that group, too, even though you would not have known it by the comments of a young analyst on a Cleveland sports talk radio station yesterday afternoon. He scoffed – even laughed – when both of the hosts, plus another analyst, all had Graham in the top five.

Guess what? The three men were right. The kid was wrong – dead wrong.

In fact, Graham, a member of the original Browns teams, deserves to not only be on that list, but perhaps even on top of it.

Really.

He is the most successful quarterback of all-time. He played 10 seasons, all in Cleveland, and led his team to 10 league championship games, with seven titles. Realistically, you can’t get any better than that.

Montana calls Graham the greatest ever because of that.

Montana was all about winning – he was a big-time winner as well – and he knows that it is the quarterback’s job to win the game, and ultimately championships.

Nothing else matters, not passing yards, touchdown throws, completions or anything else.

Just winning.

That’s why Bill Belichick, the winningest coach of this era, has Graham as one of the all-time greats.

The kid said that Graham couldn’t be successful today.

Yeah, I guess not, since he has passed away.

The only way to gauge a player is how he did against his competitors, and Graham dominated his era (1946-55). No one else was even close.

To think that Graham couldn’t play in this era because of all the changes in the game is like saying Washington, Lincoln and FDR couldn’t be good presidents today because they wouldn’t know how to handle ISIS, NAFTA and the Flint water crisis, or that Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison wouldn’t be geniuses today because they couldn’t turn on a computer.

That’s more than silly. That’s just plain dumb, son.

The kid knows his sports. He really does. I’ve listened to him a lot.

But he has no historical perspective, nor does he care to have one. That causes him to be disqualified from the conversation, and his opinion to be rendered null and void.

The kid thinks the game started to be played when he started to watch it. The truth is that it had been going on for 80 years by the time the kid hopped on board.

Graham not one of the best? Please!

Giving “Automatic Otto” his due is child’s play.