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http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...ts_pretty_rare_when_i_get_fooled_by_a_defense
I know I'm quoting a lot here, but almost all of it is direct quotes from Brady, in an article by a reporter who wasn't even the one doing the interview.
"Well, at this point in my career ... I would say, it's pretty rare," Brady said when asked if he's ever fooled by a defense. "I've been around for a pretty long time. Not that they can't fool me. But I know where all my vulnerabilities are with my protections in the run game, I know who's unblocked. I don't really ever want to snap the ball into a bad play. I don't want to snap the ball if the coverage is really defensed well against the run that we have called.
"Part of it is playing with a lot of really smart players that are able to adjust on the fly, and that's where I'm at with my teammates and my coaches. We all work together. We rely on each other so much, so when a play's called and adjusted, everyone can communicate it, everyone can understand it and everyone can go execute it. I think (some) teams would more than not call plays at the huddle, and no matter what, whatever happens, happens. You're just going to have to live with the result.
"Maybe that happens 15 times in a game, where other teams may snap the ball into a bad defense. I don't ever have one of those plays. We talk about that, practice that. I think (offensive coordinator) Josh (McDaniels) and I have such a great relationship because we've worked together so long together over the years. We'll call this play, we'll get this look. This is what we'll get to. Just to try to give these guys the best position, to put them into an opportunity to make a positive play: to run the route against the leverage against the defensive back, or to run a man coverage play against man coverage and zone coverage plays against zone coverages and throw it when it's a heavy box and run it when it's a light box.
"All of it's schematic and it's also you're factoring in situational football, which you're trying to accomplish with the clock and keep your defense off the field. That goes into it, and it's part of why we go to meetings, for many, many hours, every day, every week. Hopefully it leads to just giving yourself a bigger margin of error than the other team. Everyone communicates, we practice them. And hopefully it leads to better results."
I know I'm quoting a lot here, but almost all of it is direct quotes from Brady, in an article by a reporter who wasn't even the one doing the interview.
Brady then named Ed Reed, Ray Lewis and Darrelle Revis as those players who have given him the most trouble.
"Sometimes when I turn my back on the defense, like on a play-action pass, you don't really have an opportunity to look downfield," he said. "The hard part I would say is when players are unpredictable. That's why guys like Ray Lewis, Ed Reed or Darrelle Revis, what they've done — for me it's so special — is that they're supposed to do their responsibility, and when I turn my back on the defense, I'm expecting them to do their responsibility and by the time I turn around ...
"Even though Ed Reed will have the deep middle of the field and I'm going on a crosser that was four yards deep, and you throw it and you're like, 'Why is he there?' But he saw it, he read it, and he pulled the trigger and he went for it. I think those type of players are the most unpredictable when you're not quite sure if the DB is going to jump it or start outside and play inside. All those little technique things, players are probably harder to read than maybe schemes sometimes. But we study the players pretty hard. We have a lot of meetings with the defensive backs and linebackers that I feel really prepared when I go into a game that they're going to play the same way they have for a long time."
