PATS16N0
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May as well start from the top. Anyone remember this little gem?
"A football team, somewhere in New England..."
I guess now everybody knows where that somewhere is, and from where we are now, it's hard to imagine going to my first football game as a kid, and sitting in those bleachers that were no better than the ones I later saw on my High School field, having no idea what was going on. To put `somewhere in New England` on the map, it took Tom Brady, 3 Superbowl trophies, and rewriting the history of everything that was apparently supposed to be.
The Greatest show on turf.
You're backed up and have to play for overtime.
Peyton the Chosen One
The Steeler Dynasty that never was.
"He'll never be the same when he returns from his ACL"
The 5-3 2011 Patriots are done.
Denver just has too many weapons.
No Longer a Top 5 QB
Tom is in decline
They're just not good anymore
Tom Brady will never reach another Superbowl.
And so here we are.
So let's get to it.
Nobody else in this league, or even the HISTORY of this league, would have been able to come back from two 14 point deficits to beat that Ravens team in the plays offs. Not in that game. Not in any other. Not in the urgency and pressure of the single elimination post-season.
Why are we so sure?
Because no one ever has.
Not Rodgers, not Brees, not Peyton.
Not Montana, not Elway, not Marino.
Nobody.
This isn't the regular season. This is the playoffs, and all of them, every single one, would of folded like a cheap tent at worst, or came up short, walking off the field in defeat, their season over, at best.
No running the football, spotty protection from the offensive line, spotty performance by the defense, no attempt to even pretend to be anything other than one dimensional, passing through the air.
Just Tom Brady throwing to his boys.
Show me someone who claims another could do what Tom does, and I'll show you someone who is full of crap. Like Denver on the sidelines, getting their asses kicked in the Superbowl, with one of their coaches telling their team, "We can come back. We've already seen it before this year, against us, in New England."
There's only one problem, Coach.
Tom Brady is not your quarterback.
Peyton would of cracked, wilted, and went home last night. Brees would of fell to pieces. Rodgers would of started getting sacked all over the place.
Aaron Rodgers, for all his talent, and all his ability, is Mr. Irrelevant in the 4th quarter of football games that are of the variety in which Tom Brady proves he is still the man. For everything this man is, for all his attributes and assets as an NFL quarterback, he no Tom Brady.
Drew Brees? I've heard of her, but she doesn't seem to be around when it matters very often. He was sitting at home last night watching Cam Newton and his 7-8-1 Panthers play awful football against the Seahawks.
Peyton? With all due respect to him, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as our quarterback.
That's the difference between Tom Brady intangibles and all the other guys.
Compared to Tom Brady, that's really all they are. Throw them all in a category together. They're all just "the other guys." Media darlings for week #6, and hot commodities for fantasy football, an imaginary game.
The Steelers, the Colts, the Chargers, the Jets, the Broncos, the Ravens
Since 2001, all these teams have come and gone, risen up to challenge us as our rivals, and fallen back into irrelevancy. Each has come thinking they were New England's equal, just like the one before them, and each has fallen back into mediocrity, just like the one before them.
Wide receivers come, wide receivers go. Offensive linemen come, offensive linemen go. Some years we've had a defense, sometimes we haven't. It just never seems to matter.
Tom Brady remains.
Still the best quarterback in the National Football League, and the greatest quarterback there ever was.
People have their narratives, but who has the time?
The New England Patriots, in the Tom Brady era, are on to AFC Championship game number nine.
"A football team, somewhere in New England..."
I guess now everybody knows where that somewhere is, and from where we are now, it's hard to imagine going to my first football game as a kid, and sitting in those bleachers that were no better than the ones I later saw on my High School field, having no idea what was going on. To put `somewhere in New England` on the map, it took Tom Brady, 3 Superbowl trophies, and rewriting the history of everything that was apparently supposed to be.
The Greatest show on turf.
You're backed up and have to play for overtime.
Peyton the Chosen One
The Steeler Dynasty that never was.
"He'll never be the same when he returns from his ACL"
The 5-3 2011 Patriots are done.
Denver just has too many weapons.
No Longer a Top 5 QB
Tom is in decline
They're just not good anymore
Tom Brady will never reach another Superbowl.
And so here we are.
So let's get to it.
Nobody else in this league, or even the HISTORY of this league, would have been able to come back from two 14 point deficits to beat that Ravens team in the plays offs. Not in that game. Not in any other. Not in the urgency and pressure of the single elimination post-season.
Why are we so sure?
Because no one ever has.
Not Rodgers, not Brees, not Peyton.
Not Montana, not Elway, not Marino.
Nobody.
This isn't the regular season. This is the playoffs, and all of them, every single one, would of folded like a cheap tent at worst, or came up short, walking off the field in defeat, their season over, at best.
No running the football, spotty protection from the offensive line, spotty performance by the defense, no attempt to even pretend to be anything other than one dimensional, passing through the air.
Just Tom Brady throwing to his boys.
Show me someone who claims another could do what Tom does, and I'll show you someone who is full of crap. Like Denver on the sidelines, getting their asses kicked in the Superbowl, with one of their coaches telling their team, "We can come back. We've already seen it before this year, against us, in New England."
There's only one problem, Coach.
Tom Brady is not your quarterback.
Peyton would of cracked, wilted, and went home last night. Brees would of fell to pieces. Rodgers would of started getting sacked all over the place.
Aaron Rodgers, for all his talent, and all his ability, is Mr. Irrelevant in the 4th quarter of football games that are of the variety in which Tom Brady proves he is still the man. For everything this man is, for all his attributes and assets as an NFL quarterback, he no Tom Brady.
Drew Brees? I've heard of her, but she doesn't seem to be around when it matters very often. He was sitting at home last night watching Cam Newton and his 7-8-1 Panthers play awful football against the Seahawks.
Peyton? With all due respect to him, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as our quarterback.
That's the difference between Tom Brady intangibles and all the other guys.
Compared to Tom Brady, that's really all they are. Throw them all in a category together. They're all just "the other guys." Media darlings for week #6, and hot commodities for fantasy football, an imaginary game.
The Steelers, the Colts, the Chargers, the Jets, the Broncos, the Ravens
Since 2001, all these teams have come and gone, risen up to challenge us as our rivals, and fallen back into irrelevancy. Each has come thinking they were New England's equal, just like the one before them, and each has fallen back into mediocrity, just like the one before them.
Wide receivers come, wide receivers go. Offensive linemen come, offensive linemen go. Some years we've had a defense, sometimes we haven't. It just never seems to matter.
Tom Brady remains.
Still the best quarterback in the National Football League, and the greatest quarterback there ever was.
People have their narratives, but who has the time?
The New England Patriots, in the Tom Brady era, are on to AFC Championship game number nine.
