OK, make me resort to the Belichick assessment of his performance from Patriots Reign. He did not play very well, he was 10 of 21 for 102 yards and 1TD, throwing a TD pass to Patton to complete a drive Brady had well underway, he made 2 tough completions to Troy and Marc Edwards, and he made one mental error, 4 bad throws and 4 bad choices per the coaches assessment of the game tape. They did give him a game ball, because he didn't cost them the game, he cried, and BB isn't the anti-christ. But make no mistake about it, Troy Brown and the Patriots D with a little help from Kordell Stewart had a lot more to do with us winning that game than Bledsoe did.
Besides the totally irresponsible behind the back toss up for grabs, Drew also threw the ball right into the chest of a Pittsburg LB, who droped the easy TD that would have killed us. THAT was vintage Bledsoe.
And in his last start prior to being injured, his judgement - which was often his downfall - really bothered his coaches. He committed a delay of game penalty after Charlie and Bill had decided to go for the TD on 4th goal from the 1. Four minutes apart in the first half, he had an intentional grounding penalty and threw an interception, both in JETS territory. He was costing them points and field position in what turned out to be a 7 point division game loss. With 2 minutes left Brady drove the team to the 29, but with 14 seconds left and down by a TD he had to take 4 shots at the EZ for incompletions. Had they scored that TD earlier, he would have only needed to get Adam in FG range, if he wasn't already, and Brady would have had his first shot at a come from behind W in OT.
