Annnnd the worst QB remaining in the playoffs is....

Bhelmet said:

And by the way -SCORED 6 LAST TIME HE TOUCHED THE BALL HOW CAN YOU ASK FOR MORE - should he have scored 8 on that final play? That was the basis for my "asking for more" comment.

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No, it wasn't. They had four more downs. One lost to a sack by "future Hall of Famer" Jay Alford (as Unoriginal referred to him). Some desperate throws (one that Randy came close to catching).

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I like how they said the QBs remaining have 36 playoff wins, so basically Brady has as many as the rest combined. It's pretty insulting to rank him overall any worse than third (and I still think Brees is mostly a stat padding dome QB and Forehead is just an utter failure), but ranking Rivers and these young punks ahead of him is absurd.

Nunchucks said:

I'd say that this year, that is correct. Brady has performed worse than any of the other QBs in the playoffs.

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What about intangibles? I'd say Brady trumps them all considering what he ahd to work with.. Yet, this guy rates Brady 5th.. Which is ridiculous.

QBs: Colin K, Wilson, Brees, Luck, Manning, Brady, Newton, Rivers.
(((Talk about the old guard meets the new guard. The NFL really could not have planned it much better)))

So what qualifiers are needed to rank these QBs? I'm throwing out what I consider to be important. Admittedly it is an overly simplistic list/rating system on a discussion that probably requires in depth statistical analysis. Take it for what it's worth (in no particular order):

Pure passing (decision making and delivery): Hard to say who is#1. IMHO Newton is last.
Experience in the Biggest of NFL Games: Brady is #1. Newton is last.
Comeback ability: Hard to rank a #1 on this. Probably Brady(he'll be near the top for sure). Newton is last.
Ability to make something happen (Scrambling/avoidance and yards/scores by rushing): Colin K is first with Newton a close second. IMHO Manning is the worst with Brady next to last (he is a QB sneak threat)
Receiving group: Manning is first. Brady is last (if not for Luck's group Brady would be last by a country mile).
Leadership-Field generalship: Another tough category to rank (this is one of the most critical categories IMHO). I'd rank Newton as last based on a widely respected veteran on his own team openly questioning his leadership. A fair argument can be made for Brady as #1 (certainly no where near the bottom) but most of these guys score well in this category.

((***I don't rank ability to throw the ball deep because I just don't see that connected to success***))


#1 QB: The rating scale (again I know it's overly simplistic) makes an argument for Colin K. It's close and his pure passer rank is not at the top but he ranks well in every category (with the caveat being his track record is short).

Worst QB: Newton is last and I don't think there's a lot of room to argue otherwise. Nothing personal against Cam but he ranks on the low side, comparatively, in everything but a great ability in 'making something happen'.

Brady is terrible. The Pats defense is also terrible. Their run game is terrible because they fumble so much. Without Gronk their receivers are the worst in the league.

That's what the media seems to think anyway. I guess they think that 12-4 was all luck, all of it. Either that or they must believe that BB is such an inhumanely good coach that it literally doesn't matter who they put on the field.

im guessing they are only talking about this years stats and forgetting the past we know Manning had video game stats so his #1 and brees had MVP type stats after that only Philip Rivers had better stats, Brady was 6th in passing yards with a team that's the #2 seed how can he be the worst ?

My hope is that Brady and his wideouts get a sniff of this article...

Who cares? The only question is whether he's good enough to take the team all the way if the team plays well. I say he is. Whether he's liked or not or is the best or the worst, I'll leave to the jock sniffers.

Luck's receiver group is probably worse than Brady's. Hilton had a great year - and a great playoff game - but so did Edelman. After that, there's a precipitous drop-off while the Patriots still have Amendola before their own precipitous drop-off. The Colts have a better tight end, who isn't himself anything special, and the Patriots have a substantially better receiving threat out of the backfield.

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according to all these guys its brady, with the one exception being a dude who put luck 1 brady 2

Don't buy into the media hype.

But just for arguments sake, I wouldn't have any other QB for the Colts. None of them can survive with that Oline (they've surrendered the most QB hits in each of the last 2 seasons by a WIDE margin). The talent surrounding him very young and not as talented as other teams and he's made it work just as your QB has

Last time the Pats scored 40+ and Brady had 0 TDs was

in 2001 against the COLTS

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Last time the Patriots scored 40+ pts and Tom Brady didn't throw a TD pass was in 2001...against the Colts...Andrew Luck was 12.

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"Its all about the win whatever it takes", even if we have to Blount our way to the Super Bowl. Brady is now 18-7 in the playoffs, with that record he just surpass........crap, there is no one left to surpass

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thenepatsrule said:

in 2001 against the COLTS

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The game where Bryan Cox destroyed Jerome Pathon. I feel like THAT was the moment where the rest of the NFL started to realize that we were not the Patsies anymore and they better start fearing us.

Wish I could find a video of that play.

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sb1 said:

The game where Bryan Cox destroyed Jerome Pathon. I feel like THAT was the moment where the rest of the NFL started to realize that we were not the Patsies anymore and they better start fearing us.

Wish I could find a video of that play.

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It's called google brah, 4:10.

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That was Brady's first start.

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That was the game David Patten threw, ran, and caught a pass for a TD if I remember correctly.

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PatriotsInGA said:

That was the game David Patten threw, ran, and caught a pass for a TD if I remember correctly.

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No, that was the second game against the Colts, in Indy.

Something is wrong with the NFL since "it's a QB league" and a low ranked stiff like Tom Brady is yet again in the AFC Championship game. Who knew?

"Leadership and competitiveness are more tangible than you think, and no one has manifested them more than Manning."

Over Brady? Really? Didn't Manning throw his O line under the Bus after one of his many chokes?

They have Brees and Luck ranked above Brady in ever category. LOL, how'd that work out? Complete joke. Take the best QB in the NFL (possibly of all time) and say he isn't and drive tons of traffic to your ridiculous blog. Well played.