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You were watching a different game than I was. That's for sure. The pressure wasn't confusing Brady, he just couldn't throw into the coverages.
Brady was holding the ball for a long time, hell the Jets didn't even blitz him much, a couple DBs off the edge a few times, that's it. Most of the time those were coverage sacks. Brady had plenty of time to throw the ball.
Guess what, when the defense goes light and sends so many men into the zones, you have options. Like abandoning the empty set. The Jaguars did the same thing to Brady in the playoffs a few years back.
That's essentially what Ty Law told Borges when he stated Tom was confused. Ty said if he was he'd have thrown 5 picks. That was what sent Borges back to the film and his conclusion that no one was getting open with any consistency (and when they did it was either too late, in the wrong place or they didn't make a play - including drops). What Brady was was stymied, and he's been conditioned not to make stupid mistakes just for the sake of trying to make something happen... They weren't prepared for the defense the JETS mounted, and they aren't presently built to counter it, let alone on the fly. And in the end they also couldn't play complimentary football because they didn't have a defense that could make multiple stops at critical junctures or a ST unit that could make a gamechanging play (short of negatively).
Bill has to some extent been a little stubborn about adapting to what he likely sees as the handful of teams with the personnel and coaching accumen to do what Spags and Mangini/Ryan or Rex have been able to do because until now you encountered those teams so infrequently outside of the occasional regular season tilt it wasn't necessarily something you couldn't otherwise scheme around. Hopefully encountering them more frequently of late will cause him to rethink his approach.