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Jeez...and here I thought that was something to be thankful for each and every day...
The QB's you mention run because they can't read defenses efficiently or make good decisions quickly enough. As someone said earlier, be thankful Brady is not exceptionally fleet of foot because for QB's who are that becomes their default and usually their downfall. Rather than spending countless hours in film study, or assuming additional responsibility in the locker room and on the practice fields in a determined effort to insure that conceptualized plays and game plans can be executed efficiently as a team - these guys generally approach the game with the undisciplined mentality that when the going gets tough, the tough guys wing it. Sometimes they do that initially with limited success, but over time they pay a price. They either take a physical beating that gradually mitigates their footspeed to the point they can't manage their default game. Or as the losses and injuries mount they suffer increasing slings and arrows, from without and within, and often end up fracturing locker rooms, fan bases and even FO's.
If Asante Samuel did his job in the final game of his Patriots career, if David Tyree didn't make a freakish once in a lifetime effort catch, if BB trusted his young PK to execute at 48 yards inside a dome, if our OL didn't suffer an uncharacteristic near total meltdown... we wouldn't have suffer threads like this. There are obvious reasons why we have only played in 4 and won 3 Superbowls in the last 7 seasons...:violent: Tom Brady is not any of them.
Nobody is perfect, but there is not a single existing aspect of his game I would trade for footspeed. He is quite capable of rolling out and making throws on the fly when he isn't battling ankle and abdominal injuries - Charlie used to have him do that back in the day to get around inferior line play. The reason they don't choose to do it now is because it is not what this mature system with a HOF QB demands - the line (and blocking TE's) is expected to do their job too, and execution and accuracy and protecting the football matters to Belichick. He replaced a guy whose fallback was to just sling it. In the Denver game when Tom rolled out to avoid the rusher Watson failed to pick up and threw on the fly to Brown only to get picked off by Bailey (who Watson was somehow elevated to hero status for then running down...) people tore their hair out and said WTF was he thinking... Which is just par for the course around here where any time a play doesn't work it was the wrong call. Eli beat us on a couple of high risk plays. Had our defense capitalized on those, people here would be mocking old Eli for throwing a SB away for his team. Ben's strong suit is/or was throwing on the fly - anyone want to trade for him straight up?
And I really wish so called fans would stay out of his personal life which as his HC says he seems to be managing just fine. We really are a strange fan base these days. I guess when you win this much the growth of the skittish and hypercritical bandwaggon faction and mentality is part of the price you pay.
