fair enough.....i get that brady looks at the defense and then, having memorized/visualized the WR options, throws it where he thinks the open guy will be or the best matchup.....i just take issue with the assumption that bradys read is correct no matter what
in more concrete terms.....suppose edelman is running up field 5 yards and then has the option to cut in or out, etc......and the cb is playing him to the inside.....and the lb is also there on his inside......edelman sees this and cuts out......brady (for some reason) throws it inside and its picked off......is this edelmans fault for not "seeing" it the same way as brady and not going inside despite the two guys being right there?......instead of cutting outside and being wide open
the edelman pass at 9:38 in the 4th......i cant see how anyone can view that not as brady either misthrowing or misreading the pass
Again, Brady goes over the whole playbook with the coaches. He's probably as knowledgeable as any of them. The play is designed to be run a certain way and the ball delivered to a certain place at a certain time, before the receiver makes his break.
If Brady was having trouble reading defenses, he wouldn't be Brady. they've been running the same system he mastered early on with him as QB. He has the ball in his hand, the receiver can't adjust to another one.
Brady makes bad throws and he makes the right read for the play, but a defender sniffs it out. It happens. But he throws the ball before the receiver breaks, there is no other read that doesn't lead to being where the ball is that is right.
Without looking, I'm almost positive Brady has the highest TD/int ratio ever, or whatever stats you want to note relating to not throwing risky passes, and this is in a timing offense, where the ball is already on the way before a receiver is.
Troy Brown. a special teams player, turned third down back, turned starting WR didn't catch 100 and 90+ balls in two seasons because he was more talented than Joey Galloway, Chadocho or any number of great receivers. He did it because he put in the work with the coaches to study the offense with Brady, so that he would always see the coverage the way Brady did even if he had to improvise. UDFA Welker too. If there was a mixup between Edleman and Brady they will discuss it, but if Brady, the one who could see the whole field believes in that read, Edelman will make sure to make whatever adjustment necessary.
That doesn't mean the play was well designed, but, unless it was overthrown, it doesn't seem like a bad pass for a receiver who was in the area either.
The gronk play could be seen as interpretation. Brady expected the still recovering Gronk, to go for the first down (I would too). Maybe a healthy Gronk makes the double move for a big gain, but he was clunky yesterday.
It's a work in progress every year. No defense is going to be predictable an some options are open to interpretation.
Brady will talk about problems in early games and eventually, it will work like a machine, if he has receivers who put in the work and are on the same page. Ultimately, he's the QB, he's throwing where you're supposed to be, if you can't learn where that is 90+% of the time, you might make it on another team, but you won't make it here.
