Brady's historic run

[NE39]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

4 interceptions by Brady for a season is the most impressive stat that he accomplished this year...

That is a 1.2 % intercepted... not sure where that stands all time, but has to be close to the top.

I think it is actually 0.8% for an interception rate. 4 Ints / 492 Att = 0.813.

 

[Froob]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

Let's hope he keeps it up for the playoffs.

 

[Uncle Rico]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

SMY retweeted this:

" FO_ASchatz Tom Brady finishes season with 9.0 TD-INT ratio, beating previous record of 6.25 held by... Tom Brady. No other QB ever above 6.0."

 

[DarrylS]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

I think it is actually 0.8% for an interception rate. 4 Ints / 492 Att = 0.813.

Good catch, in my second life need to learn how to read columns..

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

Felger and Bingo were discussing this relative to his best season last night. Despite the 50 TD's in 2007 they both felt this was his best season because absent the riskier deep threat option he fed well that season he reverted to using his best asset, his brain, this season. He can go toe to toe with the big arms, but why bother when what has always seperated him from them is his ability to do all the other things better than anyone (read the defense, see the field, throw with accuracy, make good decisions under pressure, take what the opposition gives you...lead teamates and elevate their performances with an uncanny balance of poise and passion).

It just underscores how poorly performances are assessed across the board when you consider he's been in the league 11 years, played 9 full seasons as a starter and only been selected to the pro bowl 6 times and as the starter only a couple of times and only a pair of all pros nods (just one first team...) and until now only one league MVP selection... It underscores that football mediots don't know a GOAT when they see one...

Watching a $100M veteran QB like Carson Palmer just fall apart (and look befuddled at his own ineptitude) in the crunch last night with a win right there for the taking because he's never worked on his game and his mechanics and the little things just underscores that so called measurables at the position are just the tip of the iceberg. They can all throw the damn ball at this level, it's when and where and they throw it consistently and why that seperates the great ones from the marginally and even supposedly wildly talented or merely prolific ones...

 

[DarrylS]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

As much as I hate to say it, agree with Felger also.. thought he played off the charts all season.. not only on the field, but on the sidelines as well, remember a couple of times calling his teammates out.. quite vocally.

He also learned to rely on tight ends, after some lean TE years, and they combined for 19 of the 36 TD passes.. very impressive.

This may be the Offense that BB was trying to get to for a while now..

 

[RobertWeathers]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

As much as I hate to say it, agree with Felger also.. thought he played off the charts all season.. not only on the field, but on the sidelines as well, remember a couple of times calling his teammates out.. quite vocally.

He also learned to rely on tight ends, after some lean TE years, and they combined for 19 of the 36 TD passes.. very impressive.

This may be the Offense that BB was trying to get to for a while now..

Whats interesting is that from 2000-2006, BB drafted one, sometimes two TEs every draft. From 2007-2009, he didn't draft any. Does seem like he's gone back to his original philosophy.

 

[xmarkd400x]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

You can count the number times Jerry Rice, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, John Taylor, etc squawked about not getting the football on one finger.

Publicly, that is.

You never know what happened behind closed doors.

 

[blackglass3]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

I remember the two picks Brady threw in the Jets game intended for Moss. What were the other two?

 

[RobertWeathers]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

Publicly, that is.

You never know what happened behind closed doors.

True. I'm sure there was some complaining. But I do think that the receivers I mentioned learned early on from their coach and their HoF QBs the offense functions better when everyone is a threat.

We don't know if Randy ever really got that here.

 

[Prefect]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

I remember the two picks Brady threw in the Jets game intended for Moss. What were the other two?

The other two were against the Ravens with one of them being a Hail Mary at the end of regulation.

 

[Sciz]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

Exactly one of Brady's picks was intended for a player still on the team.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

Felger reiterated his contention that this team lost it's soul following the 2006 season and regained it in 2010. Troy Brown said that absolutely was true. A lot of us sensed or feared that down the stretch in 2007, but many more wouldn't hear of it... Luckily Bill figured it out and he literally reasserted himself on and off the field as the leader of a talented but balanced and complimentary decidedly blue collar football team selflessly dedicated to one goal only, winning football games and ultimately championships. He got away from the veteran FA fixes who increasingly were looking not for a ring so much as a means to extend or enhance or revive their career contractual potential.

There will still be some bumps in the road. Not everyone will embrace the Deion Branch lesson in it's entirety, they will still want their money and inevitably some of them will have to go to get it. Vince is an example of a guy who just couldn't embrace the leadership role until he got his deal. The good news is he's also the kind of guy who once that was taken care of (and at a pretty reasonable rate) will give you 110%. Mankins is a similarly wired guy, and that is why Bill knew he could get away with waiting him out. He cannot stand to play uncompetitively since his principles won't allow it on or off the field. Hopefully they can reach some financial compromise that works for both sides 'cause I don't think Logan would be truly happy elsewhere.

 

[patchick]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

With a quarterback rating of 145 in the season finale, Brady finishes at 111.0.

Big deal, Hoyer put up a 111.7 yesterday.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

Big deal, Hoyer put up a 111.7 yesterday.

Trade him for a 2nd rounder immediately!!!

 

[sevengables_2207]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

With a quarterback rating of 145 in the season finale, Brady finishes at 111.0. With this final masterpiece (without his two best receivers), he finished fifth all-time in single season passer rating.

The list goes as follows:
Manning (04)
Brady (07)
Young (94)
Montana (89)
Brady (10)

Young's second best season was 15th all-time, while Manning has the 25th.

When you consider the following players from the list, I'd argue that this is the greatest single season in NFL history.

Manning (04)- Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Edgerrin James
Brady (07)- Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Donte Stallworth
Young (94)- Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Brent Jones, Ricky Watters
Montana (89)- Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Brent Jones, Roger Craig, Tom Rathman

A note on the '89 Niners. Their offense was so good that Montana put up a QB rating of 112.4. Young started three games and had a passer rating of 120.8.

Obviously, Brady's 2010 squad did not have the firepower, within any stretch of the imagination, of any of the other five teams on here.

Nice job compiling this list. Brady not only owns two of the top five single-season passer rating seasons, but the cast of characters he had to accomplish this in 2010 with is lacking in star power compared to the other 4. Now all of those Manning apologists who cling to their "chosen one's" stats have a little less to grapple with after Brady's sublime performance this season.

 

[ahmed]

Re: Brady finishes with fifth best passer rating season of all-time

It is amazing considering the people he had to work with and that he's the only one who has 2 such seasons in the top 10. God, I just hope that Brady has a lot of years left in him, he has in him to rewrite a lot of records.

This bodes really well for the future. I am sure that if Gronk stays healthy (crosses fingers), he will go down as one of the best TEs of all time. Hernandez might also be up there. The only thing going against them is they might take some numbers from each other .

 

[TheGodInAGreyHoodie]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

His 0.8% int rate is #2 overall. #1 among QB who started the entire season.

Damon Huard went 0.4% in 2006 with KC. 148 of 244 1878 yards 11 TDs 1 int. So Huard had an 11-1 TD to int rate, also better than Tom's 9-1 rate. However he only started 8 games and played in 10.

So among QBs who played an entire season Tom tops both, but DH played enough to be statically significant on the all time lists.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

with one of them being a Hail Mary at the end of regulation.

Glad someone brought this up. Number should have been 3, dropped picks in some games notwithstanding.

Regards,
Chris

 

[CheeseMonkeys]

Re: The most impressive Brady stat.. 4 Int.

I think getting rid of Moss is the main reason why Brady has only thrown 4 interceptions. Brady has incredible accuracy and arm strength on short/medium ranged passes and Welker/Branch are the perfect receivers for Brady's skill set.

I also give a bunch of credit to BJGE and Woodhead for giving the Pats offense enough versatility so that they didn't have to rely as much on the pass.