So I had to listen to the most of the game on the radio yesterday, and I missed a few portions, but I just looked at the play-by-play and confirmed what I had suspected: Brady had a stretch--well, a quarter, to be more specific--where he went 20-of-22 for 222 yards. I remember during the GB Thanksgiving day game where the announcers waxed poetic about Brett Favre when he completed something like 15 straight. Brady has stretches like that almost every single game. And when you're averaging almost 9 yards a pass on the season (and over 10 during this stretch), completing almost EVERYTHING, the offense is, quite simply, unstoppable.
I've said it before (and been ridiculed by Pats fans and non-Pats fans alike) but Brady is the best football player ever. No, he doesn't have the freak athleticism of others, he doesn't have blazing speed or an Olympic-level broad jump. But it's everything else: his pocket awareness, his ability to create time while finding an open receiver, his ability to sell the run on play action, and certainly the fact that he hits receivers right where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, with the right amount of zip every time.
Screw the MVP, he has that in the bag. He should now be recognized as more than a great winner on a fantastic team, he is now the one person in all of football that can singlehandedly carry a franchise--as he did last year--while also having the singular ability to demolish opponents with ease (as he's doing this season). When everyone in the stadium knows he's going to throw, time after time, and he still maintains composure in the pocket and finding whoever is open...that makes him the most dangerous player ever.
