Brady still throws as beautiful a ball as just about anybody in the league; and he isn't all of a sudden a dumbass. He's not declined, but the team around him has.
The talk of Brady's "decline" should embarrass anybody who watches the NFL. Hmm, before Moss and Welker he put up comparable stats to what he is now.
He may have had the worst cast of pass-catchers last season... certainly among
Peyton "Pancake" Manning can barely out-throw Colt McCoy's sister, yet he put up (what was it??) 56 TDs. QB play.
Brady is the best QB in the NFL, and I don't think it's that close. You can have Stafford, Rodgers, Manning, Luck... I'd take their respective receiving cores, but at QB, I'll take the best in the business... Mark Sanch, errr. TB12.