A Quick Look at Brady's Play

[Ian]

Hard to overlook 0-6 on throws more than 20 yards. That's troubling to me.

So is who he had to throw to along with the ones that were dropped.

I hear you, but I think you have to look at it while realizing that aside from Welker and Hernandez, you had a one legged Gronk and two guys who are in their late 30's that were worn down from playing 18 games.

 

[jnug]

Brady did not do his job because he was outplayed by Eli and that turned out to be the biggest difference in this game.

Take the Brady/Welker and the Eli/Manningham plays as examples.

Welker failed to make what would have been a good to very good catch of a crummy throw, a throw that any journeyman quarterback would have made so that Welker would not have even had to leave his feet.

Eli fit the ball into a space about 1' square under the same kind of pressure and Manningham made a very good but not great catch of what was a spectacular throw. Even the former pro receivers saw that play the same way.

Toss in the safety and the ridiculous throw to Gronk Interception that should never have been attempted and you have a game where Eli simply made exceptional quarterback plays when he had to and Tom made to many big mistakes. The biggest difference in the game by far was the difference between Tom and Eli.

Tom's 10 for 10 in the second quarter drive did not include any really great throws and were as much about the receivers running good routes and getting open as it was about Tom. Games like this are not about stats anyway. Games like this are about big plays made or missed. Eli made them....Tom didn't.

As for Tom's shoulder....he did that to himself. He had made all the yards he could make out of that play and should have just slid down feet first. He made that ridiculous spin looking like a giraffe trying to be a ballerina in the process and set himself up for the Tuck hit. Tom is not that kind of athletic and he has never been. As soon as I saw him spin I actually thought he was going to fumble.

The next biggest difference was Tom's receiver corp vs Eli's receiver corp. Had Gronk not been injured that would have been a wash. However the receiver corp differences were not as great as the difference between Tom and Eli because Eli made more big plays and Tom blew to many opportunities by making big mistakes.

 

[jnug]

I do have one comment in retrospect about that play by Pollard on Gronk that caused the injury. As long as the league does not ferret out the real problem in pro ball we will continue to have to face seeing the games stars effected.

Pollard does not make a single tackle that does not involve some sort of cheap shot attempt to injure. He has perfected his technique to the point where he does not make tackles so much as he positions opponents so that he can inflict injury. Rodney Harrison for all the flak he took basically tried to knock the snot out of you. I will take that over some guy that is purposefully intending to disjoint me at every turn.

It is going to get to the point here where if the league is not careful teams are going to take it upon themselves to get Pollard out of the game before he gets one of them.

The league needs something like what hockey has done. Put a guy in place (in fact Rodney would be perfect for the job) that reviews plays looking for intend to injure. Never mind this bull of trying to deal with the moving target of a quarterback's head. It is the Pollard's of the game that must be driven from the game or caught early before they become what Pollard has become.

I am amazed to find myself looking at Pro Hockey and seeing more progressive thinking in this regard than I see in football. I would discount whether a penalty was called in the game itself or not. If a play is reviewed and intent to injure is discovered throw the book at the guy.

 

[Aßßynormal]

I'll never kill Brady for the INT. I'll take my chances with Gronk one on one with a LB deep everytime.

Gronk could've tackled the guy before he caught it. Maybe next time.

 

[ATippett56]

A separated non-throwing shoulder will mess with your mechanics. We don't know the grade of the separation, but IMO he has one, explaining some slightly of throws late

Even more reason to run the ball in the fourth quarter and call screen plays to the running backs.

 

[ATippett56]

Gronk could've tackled the guy before he caught it. Maybe next time.

Maybe next time Tom Brady won't even attempt to make that pass. Oh wait, Tom Brady didn't learn his lesson from the Ravens playoff game two weeks earlier.

 

[DonBlackmon55]

Maybe next time Tom Brady won't even attempt to make that pass. Oh wait, Tom Brady didn't learn his lesson from the Ravens playoff game two weeks earlier.

Stupid play to throw it up there to a limping Gronk which resulted in the INT.......then luck also bounces Giants way as Bradshaw fumbles on 5 and another fumble recovered by Giants(shades of 2008)

17-9 we needed that drive to put the giants on the ropes.

Dumb dumb dumb.....any which way you look at it.You'd think as maturing thru years Brady would know better....

I do not blame Welker one bit. Guy has guts and laid it out for our team.

 

[ATippett56]

Stupid play to throw it up there to a limping Gronk which resulted in the INT.......then luck also bounces Giants way as Bradshaw fumbles on 5 and another fumble recovered by Giants(shades of 2008)

17-9 we needed that drive to put the giants on the ropes.

Dumb dumb dumb.....any which way you look at it.You'd think as maturing thru years Brady would know better....

I do not blame Welker one bit. Guy has guts and laid it out for our team.

Wes Welker was not the problem. The Tom Brady pass to Wes Welker was far from perfect.