Has Brady Become A Playoff Choker?

[Ilikehappyppl]

The Colts forum said the same thing about Manning when they lost to the Saints in the superbowl and to the Jets this year..


Without Brady this team would have had a 9-7 record maybe..

The problem is the Pats are not a balanced team like the Steelers and the Packers..They both have a good offense and good defense and still playing and will probably both go to the SB...JMO

Really? and that's why when he went out with his knee they went 11-5......:bricks: I would rather go 9-7 and make it as a wildcard, then go 14-2 and loose in the division round. Go ask the Jets....
Tom and the Pat's have turned into regular season chumps! Cool 14-2 and homefield!!! woot!! too bad we can win a game in the post-season where it matters most.

BTW people saying that we have won 3 rings in the past and we should be happy, "your only as good as your last game" BB said this and its the truth....The past is the past, right now is what matters!

 

[MassPats38]

If you can't find it in yourself to imagine the Pats taking a 7-0 lead there, and to further imagine how different this game probably would have been, so be it. I can imagine it. Here let's try this another way - what percentage of times would the Pats score 7 points in this situation? What percentage of times would they score 3 points in this situation? What percentage of times would they fumble? What percenatge of times would they throw an interception? You see, if you try, you can get your answer.

Awesome for you and your imagination. Your imagination is not reality, and certainly no foundation for a logical argument. In your imaginary world the drive goes on, the Pats score and the whole game changes. In mine, Welker and Crumpler catch TD passes laid right in their hands and the Pats go on for a rout. After the win, Brady gets in his time machine, goes back to 2007 and adjusts the blocking scheme to win the 2007 championship. He then goes further back in time, takes over for Drew Bledsoe in the 1996 title game and goes on to win that game too. Then he continues back in time, takes over for Eason and runs a spread offense to defeat the Bears 4-6.

Isn't imagination great? If I try, I can get "your answer", one possible scenario in many, and as much a work of fiction as the rest of the above. The reality is many people had their hands on the ball, as DaBruinz pointed out in his post, and any one or all of them could have changed the course of events in the game. Only one of those people is Brady. That is reality, not imagination. Brady no more cost the Pats the game with a single INT than he won the title against the Panthers with a single INT. In both cases, the games were still very much in doubt.

 

[Tunescribe]

Glad to see this awful thread in purgatory where it belongs.

 

[SuperPatsFan]

Great discussion here. Thanks for the contributions everyone.