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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Certainly not. Actually, I'm not arguing that Brady choked at all. I'm merely commenting on the double standard by which he's measured here.
For instance, Manning's first pick in the Baltimore @ Den game was a perfect pass to Decker, which due to what some would call uncalled PI and some would not, bounced off Decker's hands/chest straight up into the air resulting in a pick 6.
Go to the 'hatorade' thread and see how many posters here were willing to call a spade a spade and write that one off as sheer bad luck. Nope. It was on Manning. "ANOTHER PICK IN THE PLAYOFFS! WOOHOO! THERE HE GOES AGAIN!"
Yet Brady's tipped pass, which one could argue was tipped at the line and therefore never even got close to its intended target, is not judged the same way.
My opinion: Football is a team sport, and no one guy can do it by themselves. Manning put his team in a position to win the game where only a miracle could take it away and that miracle floated over Rahim Moore's head. No doubt the pick in OT was a terrible decision, and he gets his share of the blame for it, but on this forum, that share of the blame is basically 100%.
Brady had a game against Baltimore that was mediocre at best, a terrible rating, more picks than TDs, 13 points total and none in the second half. Is it his fault they lost? No, because the guys around him weren't able to step up their own games to help out and take up the slack, which is what a TEAM has to do to win. But that doesn't absolve him of his share of the blame, which many here are trying to do.
It IS a double standard, and I'm not really sure how anyone can a) not see it, or b) see it and still argue against it.
Lmao-Now both Brady and Welker suck. Belichick is next no doubt.
Actually the Draft is coming up so Belichick is definitely next in line for the sucks thread.
I don't understand how this team wins 5 games a year.
People who start threads like this are shouting to the world how little they really know about football in general, and the pro game specifically. We already had a similar thread by Fencer titled "Is Brady choking?" or something like that. Do yourself a favor, Nathan, and delete this nonsense while you still can to save further embarrassment. You simply have no clue what you're talking about.
You must either be about 14, or you didn't start watching football until after 2001 if you are trying to diminish Tom Bradys contributions to winning that title.
Of course nice job trying to make a stat argument out of 3 games, one where he playing in a blizzard and another when he was injured in the first half.
I posted this in another thread and I will just say it again, and I am serious when I say this.
Tom's focus and fire and/or lackthereof in the playoffs in the biggest games has gone South since the arrival of the one and only and we know who, yes, I'll say it and I mean it, Giselle.
I understand that football should take a backseat and that she should be the most important thing in his life, but I'm sorry to say, pre-Giselle, we had a guy who used to slam down Gatoraid cups and prance up and down the bench egging guys on. The fire and focus was there. He was always aware of the clock, aware of the pocket, never ducked at the thought of a phantom passrusher like we see now.
2007 was when "we know who" came aboard and I'm happy for Tom from that aspect, but unfortunately, his football "focus", "awareness" and "nerve" have taken a huge hit in the big games and I believe her arrival has alot to do with it. That is my honest opinion and everyone I talk to believes the same thing.
Just this past Sunday at my son's Pop Warner banquet that exact subject game up about Tom's lack of big game nerve and focus and a woman at the table turned to me and said that her husband believes that Giselle has taken all of this away, and yes, she was serious. Alot of us believe this.
I hope he can find a way in the next 2-3 season to watch some of his old playoff tapes and see how he used to be and I hope he can regain what he has lost.
In 2009, the first play from scrimmage, Ray Rice runs 80 yards for a TD. The Patriots next possession, Suggs strip sacks Brady. Shortly it is 14-0, and Ray Lewis knows all of Brady's cadences, so that's game.
In 2010, the defense gave up 28 points at home to an offense led by Mark Sanchez.
In 2011, the defense didn't force one 3 and out in the super bowl. The closest they got was the game winning drive when Nink jumps offsides on a would-be third down stop. Eli converts the next play.
In 2012, the Ravens have four TD drives. One goes 53 yards (Ridley fumble), one goes 63 yards, and two go 87 yards. The defense sees third down twice in those four drives.
I posted this in another thread and I will just say it again, and I am serious when I say this.
Tom's focus and fire and/or lackthereof in the playoffs in the biggest games has gone South since the arrival of the one and only and we know who, yes, I'll say it and I mean it, Giselle.
I understand that football should take a backseat and that she should be the most important thing in his life, but I'm sorry to say, pre-Giselle, we had a guy who used to slam down Gatoraid cups and prance up and down the bench egging guys on. The fire and focus was there. He was always aware of the clock, aware of the pocket, never ducked at the thought of a phantom passrusher like we see now.
2007 was when "we know who" came aboard and I'm happy for Tom from that aspect, but unfortunately, his football "focus", "awareness" and "nerve" have taken a huge hit in the big games and I believe her arrival has alot to do with it. That is my honest opinion and everyone I talk to believes the same thing.
Just this past Sunday at my son's Pop Warner banquet that exact subject game up about Tom's lack of big game nerve and focus and a woman at the table turned to me and said that her husband believes that Giselle has taken all of this away, and yes, she was serious. Alot of us believe this.
I hope he can find a way in the next 2-3 season to watch some of his old playoff tapes and see how he used to be and I hope he can regain what he has lost.
cleverly humorous
Brady is only working with the players and scheme that is dictated to him from the top. Charlie Weis and Brady were a deadly pair and have 3 Championships to show for it. Weis would change gears in a second if something wasnt working and the Pats were known for innovated game plans and 2nd half adjustments.
I'm serious.
You're being an irrational jerk, but I'm guessing that's not the "real you".
I think there is something to be said for this. Prior to becoming OC of the Patriots, Weis had twenty-one years of experience in football, having started his career as an assistant in 1979. In fairness, and not to slight McDaniels' offensive prowess, but he had only 6 years in football before becoming OC, and even then has only been a OC for 6 years.