Re: McDaniels to Brady: 'We are not changing a thing'
*ROFLMOA* OH Really? What's so ridiculous about pointing out the FACT that its Brady's responsibility to point out the MIKE and the O-line's job to adjust to his call?
What's ridiculous about the FACT that Brady has the ability to AUDIBLE on any play based on how he sees the defense lined up?
How the hell does Tom NOT take some of the blame? Seriously? What is ridiculous is people like yourself thinking that Brady's ***** doesn't stink in this. He's as much at fault as McDaniels is.
OH, and, btw, if the O-line is getting beat the way they were, don't you think its BRADY'S responsibility to read and adjust the plays to help the O-line out? OH wait. Clearly you don't because you think that the O-line operates seperately from Brady. Otherwise, you wouldn't have made the comments you did because you'd understand the bigger picture.
Brady is as at fault for the O-Line's weak play as McD? You gotta be kidding me. First off, the O-Line is at fault for the O-Line's play. It really is that simple. Go through Unoriginal's thread, just see how many times a guy is flat-out beat and try and tell me if it has anything to do with where Brady called the mike.
The O-Line was individually getting dominated and in your attempt to absolve McD of any and all responsibility for the loss, you've gone and tried to blame Brady for the poor OL play.
It wasn't Brady's best game by any stretch, but if we're assigning blame, the OL and coaching certainly shoulder more of it. First, the OL for getting physically dominated unlike it had all season and second, McD and BB for not adjusting to compensate for the fact that the OL was getting dominated - if you can even compensate for that at all, as plenty argue that you can't.
But to think that Brady's mike calls were the reason the OL sucked it up? I'm not buying that one. Want to say Brady missed some open throws? Sure, he did. Or that he looked deep to Moss on plays where there wasn't time for it? Yeah, maybe he did. But to blame his identification of the mike on the total self-implosion of the offensive line???
EDIT: As for Brady's ability to audible - now you're really making excuses for McD...and I haven't even tried to put any blame on him. Yet your so sensitive to any criticism that could possibly go McD's that way that you have already have paved the way to deflect said criticism. Basically, you're saying, McD didn't do his job well enough, it's Brady job to correct for it at the LOS. Brady's not a friggin offensive coach, he's a quarterback, he gets paid to read defenses and throw the ball to the open receivers, he does not get paid to design an offense or design and call plays, he is an implementor of the offense.
Again, the group to blame here is first and foremost the offensive line, but in your haste to avoid any criticism on your BFF McDaniels here, you've gone and blamed Brady for far more than he deserves.