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More pure disprespeck for Brady...
Writer: Tom Brady's Arm Strength Declining, Super Bowl Was 'By Far His Worst Game Of The Season'
Oh, but wait. There's more pure and utter trash where this came from. If you thought the above was horrendously bad, read this...
Looks like Fahey, whoever he is, is trying to be this year's Monson. I have to think that he wrote this in order to get his name out there. Usually, I'm not one to reward writers like him, but in this case I figured I would make an exception.
Writer: Tom Brady's Arm Strength Declining, Super Bowl Was 'By Far His Worst Game Of The Season'
Now, here in the summer of 2017, Cian Fahey from Pre-Snap Reads is stepping to the plate.
Fahey — who has an extensive background covering football for Bleacher Report, Football Outsiders, and Rotoworld, Sports On Earth — wrote an article examining the problems facing older quarterbacks in the NFL. That crop included the soon-to-be-40-year-old Tom Brady. (The story ran on June 29 but started making the rounds in Boston this week.)
Fahey uses “interceptable passes” to evaluate quarterbacks, and even though Brady threw just seven interceptable passes in his 12 regular-season games, he was charted as having thrown nine interceptable passes in three playoff games.
Without a doubt, the win over the Texans was an ugly one, with Brady going 18-for-38 for 287 yards, 2 TDs and 2 INTs. That came against the NFL’s No. 2-ranked pass defense. And surely, Brady had his downs in Super Bowl LI vs. the Falcons, including a bad decision that led to his first-ever postseason pick-six.
But where Fahey is going to lose a lot of folks is when he writes this: “The Patriots won the Super Bowl so Brady got all the plaudits. Yet it was by far his worst game of the season. He repeatedly tried to give the game away.”
Oh, but wait. There's more pure and utter trash where this came from. If you thought the above was horrendously bad, read this...
But why, then, does Fahey by necessity tie these interceptable passes to an “abrupt drop in arm strength”?
“There might have been some credence to the idea that Brady’s suspension to start the season worked in his favour,” Fahey wrote. “Had he been tasked with playing four more games before the Super Bowl last year, his arm strength would have been pushed right to its limit.”
Looks like Fahey, whoever he is, is trying to be this year's Monson. I have to think that he wrote this in order to get his name out there. Usually, I'm not one to reward writers like him, but in this case I figured I would make an exception.