MoLewisrocks

Pressure will flumox both timing and mechanics. This is not the first time we've seen that happen to Brady. That's why I'm convinced it's not the knee or concerns about being hit that caused any of what happened Sunday. Monday, absolutely throughout the first half. As JAWS said he was feeling his way back. But he cleared that hurdle in the last 2 drives. This was all about pressure and timing and execution and a QB throwing off his back foot (whereas Monday night he was failing to plant his back foot) to receivers wearing playcall armbands...

And BTW it's on the WR to get in synch with the QB here, not visa versa...

He had one supposed constant out there and it was successfully taken away. He had Watson but under that pressure our TE don't get out into their routes very often. Mini me is a rookie and while he shows potential to indeed be another Welker he's not there yet nor could he be expected to be. He juggled a TD catch for an incompletion. Galloway shows signs he's getting there but he's not there yet. He got held on a 3rd down conversion in the red zone that wasn't called and had a drop and was probably out of position at least a couple of more times. It's a matter of inches on this offense. Guys aren't getting much seperation considering the pressure Brady is under so that makes for a dicey proposition on a team that stresses ball security.

And while the masses will call for a ground game because of all that, as Reiss pointed out there were factors at work like the penalty induced long yardage situations and an evaporating game clock that really made it a moot point.

bucky

One play stands out in my mind - it was in the first half and it was a 3rd and long. Brady had to scramble out to his left. He threw on the run and overthrew a wide open Galloway who would have had a first down in FG territory. Then the announcers said "Brady is not good throwing on the run".

Now I'm not an expert on Brady's mechanics, but I do remember previously when Brady would partially scramble out of the pocket, set his feet and square his shoulders, then make a perfect throw just as he's about to get hit. It would appear to me that on the play in question Brady had enough time to set his feet and square his shoulders, but instead he threw sort of on the run.

I don't know if the example I'm siting is an exception of not. But it does seem like Brady is making more of an effort to avoid big hits. And that will obviously make him less effective against the blitz. Hopefully that's something he'll be able to turn on and off, so that he can avoid the hits early, but be able to take them and still make the play later in the season.