RodThePat
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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.Brees is leading the league in INTs. Good quarterbacks can get themselves into [mostly] mental flunks. The way we'll know if Brady is still elite is if he improves on it, which well have to wait and see.
So much for the "Patriots can't win unless Brady carries them" mantra. What is wrong with Tom Brady?? Even before his binky Moss was traded Tom Brady has not put together a great game from beginning to end. Until yesterday the O-line has been quite good this year. Brady has been given time and has been clean at the end of most games this year and yet his passing game has been very erratic. Tom has been "off" alot this year. Throws at guys feet, throws to their wrong side, missing wide open receivers.....
Any theories as to why??
I read your post and it consisted of many excuses why Brady wasn't a factor.
Agreed. Look at Rivers, who is "statistically" way better than Brady this year, throwing an INT and a lateral that cost his team two turnovers. Against a stingy defense where Brady and the rest of the offense could get nothing going, he didn't make any dumb throws and took a couple of sacks rather than force it (but didn't drop it when he took a sack). He even eked out an 8 minute TD drive in the middle of all the madness. Brady is fine; even he has to keep adjusting to the new O.
He's been off the last 2 games. It happens. You see it happen in golf, you see it happen in basketball when all of a sudden a guy can't hit a free throw to save his life, you see it in baseball when good hitters go in 2 for 26 slumps. That's the nature of sports. I just disagree with the notion that he has been bad all year. That's simply untrue. He's played below his standards in the last few games, but has had spurts of the "classic" Brady in those two. All quarterbacks go through some rough stretches, we are lucky that Brady's rough stretches aren't as bad as some other guys'.
From 01 to 06 he was pretty much guaranteed to have a stinker, where he threw 4 picks and just basically screwed the team out of a win. He doesn't do that anymore, but he will be inconsistent ocasionally, as all QBs are.
You are quite correct that Brady has an annual stinkeroo. He's human. But it has not stopped in 2006. It happened last year too. It just happened to occur in the Playoffs, and the Baltimore Ravens won their only game all decade against the Patriots...
It's kinda sad when you look at the Pats RB: an undrafted, small, and only white RB in the league.
The offense was downright embarrasing yesterday.It was on the road as well.This team definetly needs another wr in the off-season.I seen enough of Tate already and this guy cant even run routes!
My thoughts exactly.He is there to create a diversion.
Have you had access to the coaches' game tape? I mean, it's kind of hard to judge route running while watching the game from the TV.