TOM FUCKING BRADY
rattdog
New York
congrats to brady and the bucs. what can i say. the guy is just fucking incredible. hoody must be pissed.
guess green bay should have gone for it at 4th down.
guess green bay should have gone for it at 4th down.
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hey i'm not taking anything away from the guy, he's doubtless one of the all time greats but it's a team game. I only saw early parts and the end of the game, what Brady throw, 3 INTs?
How about a Tampa defense that covered for Brady turning it over?
How about Bruce Arians? IMO an often underrated overlooked head coach.
Will he have to change his name before the Super bowl BTW? I mean we can't have any arians on such a widely viewed event. Maybe he can change his name to Bruce Sharpton or Bruce X for the next couple weeks. Got to appease the woke crowd!
Anyway, my point is Brady didn't do it by himself but congrats to him and his team for getting this far.
43 or not, he's the GOAT, and he's playing angry.
anybody honestly think if brady could qb this green bay team to a playoff berth?
Doesn’t matter during that stand Green Bay has so much trouble getting in the end zone if Rodgers would have ran it in I bet they would ha e failed at the 2 pt conversion.
Even before this season:
* 11 Superbowl appearances and 6 rings to show for it.
* 13 AFC Championship games in the 19 seasons he played.
* Playoff berths in 17 of the 19 seasons he played and barely missing on the other 2.
And most important:
* Many of these playoff berths and AFC Championship appearances in years where you couldn't pick many of his receivers out of a police lineup and a few during years where the offensive line was utter shit. There were a number of seasons where this guy literally willed the Pats into the playoffs and made everyone around him better. Oh, and all of this success in a salary cap era specifically designed to PREVENT this from happening.
And now:
* He is going to his 12th Superbowl appearance and has an NFC Chamionship to add to his 11 AFC Champinships.
Now is he the same Tom Brady that he was 10 years ago? Of course not. But he was still good enough to lead yet another NFL team to both the second highest passing yards per game in the league AND the second highest points per game. He certainly didn't do it on his own, but he's far from the only NFL QB with good pieces around him.
He is 100% uncontestably the GOAT, by almost any conceivable metric anyone can come up with. His success goes far beyond a generationally great QB to a completely unique historical phenomenon that may never be seen again in this sport.
* 11 Superbowl appearances and 6 rings to show for it."
I interrupt this Blutarsky moment to suggest that it really was 9 Super Bowls, but that the 6 rings is accurate!
It seemed the entire Patriots offense was built around him, and he continued to perform in each game. Now that he’s moved away from Beliceck, I’m even more impressed to see him back in the super bowl.
The only knock I have on him is his leaving Bridgette Moynihan when she was pregnant with his son. But, seeing who he left her for, I can’t fault him too much...
Even before this season:
* 9 Superbowl appearances and 6 rings to show for it.
* 13 AFC Championship games in the 19 seasons he played.
* Playoff berths in 17 of the 19 seasons he played and barely missing on the other 2.
Yup, that looks much worse. We should immediately find the QBs that have had this much success across ALL of these metrics and then discuss so that we can compare apples to apples.
Oh wait, there aren't any quarterbacks who come close...oh...
GOAT.
But Brady also has my loyalty, which he earned by giving us 20 years of the best football that any NFL fan has ever experienced. He wanted to win more than anything and it showed. He even took less in his contract than he could have received in order to leave the team with cap space to put pieces around him. I have great respect for him and I'm rooting for the Bucs now ALMOST as much as I would root for the Pats if they were in the hunt.
Though the 07 Giants were tailor-made to beat Brady, they could bring heat particularly up the middle.
meanwhile brady had to get established with guys like troy brown, deion branch, kevin faulk - not exactly household names like faulk, harrison, james and wayne.
troy brown did have a couple of seasons that were all pro worthy though.
A Springfield MA television broadcast was outside the NFL’s heavily imposed 75 mile “blackout” restriction and the stadiums of the day (Fenway, Alumni, Harvard U, et al). Obviously your Dad loved football and a drive to Springfield was very doable from your local.
Interesting comment that made me wonder about the draft positions of the other most successful quarterbacks - those with 3 or more world championships.
Sid Luckman - pick 2 by Bears from Pittsburgh, 4x world champion 40,41,43,46
Otto Graham - pick 4 by Lions but signed for Browns of the AAFC, 3x world champion 50,54,55 plus 4 AAFC championships from 46-49
Johnny Unitas - pick 102-round 9 of 1955 draft by Pittsburgh but cut from team before season. Signed by Colts in 1956 and became the starting QB after George Shaw, the 1955 overall first pick, was injured. 3x world champ 58,59,70
Bart Starr - pick 200-round 17, 5x world champ 61,62,65,66,67
Terry Bradshaw - pick 1. Began the 74 season behind Terry Gilliam before regaining the starting position after 6 games. 4x world champ 74,75,78,79.
Joe Montana - pick 82-round 3. 4x world champ 81,84,88,89.
Troy Aikman - pick 1. 3x world champ 92,93,95.
Tom Brady - pick 199-round 6. 6x world champ 01,03,04,14,16,18.
Brady and Unitas were the only QBs with a long gap between championships. Also notice that pretty much each decade had one dominant QB excepting Unitas whose championships were separated by Starr's accomplishments.
Name another QB who has come even close to competing in 10 Superbowls, on two different teams no less. Let me save you the trouble, there isn't one. Elway is the next highest - at half that number (5).
GOAT.
The way I see it, Brady was teachable and absorbed just about every morsel of knowledge available to him in the Patriots system. Once he mastered all that was available to him in football knowledge and physical improvement, he actually pursued more knowledge outside the Patriots system. At that point Brady, resented not being treated as an equal to the coaching staff and his problems became an issue for both parties. Brady certainly has the capacity to contribute to the Buccaneer knowledge base, but I would suggest 75% is Patriot process and 25% Brady centric.
What certainly is fair is that the functioning Tom Brady of 2020/2021 brought a lot to the Buccaneers and the Buc's cumulative performance dwarfed the performance of the Patriots this season in Tom's absence.
OK does that make sense to you or is that also a socialist POV ya tahd, even us Brooklyn guys speak a little Boston to make it easier for you to understand