ok........i could be completely wrong
my eye test tells me that brady was inconsistent this year......sometimes very good with his accuracy and decision making and poise......and sometimes not so much
when brady is still here in 2017 and playing at an elite level, y'all can all laugh at that clown james who thought brady was on the decline
Well, I suspect by 2017 you'll be a Colts fan somewhere else making the case that Andrew Luck needs to go.
I didn't play organized football ever in my entire life. I played street football all the time, but when it came to organized sports, I was on the ski team. I don't pretend to know X's and O's like everyone else, but I consider myself fairly observant, and there's some things your media heroes quite clearly miss.
1. Tom's now `overrated` in the play offs.
Wrong conclusion. Tom Brady has been stiffed by the Ray Lewis, Ed Reed defense of old. It didn't matter when and where he played them, against that defense, Tom Brady has to fight for every inch and every yard. He still came out on top of most of them, but they were battles, struggles, and not the typical aerial assault performances we see so often from him.
Tom Brady's post season stats have taken a hit in recent years, not because it's the playoffs, as Felger the idiot suggests, but because we've had to continually play Tom's kryponite defense.
It's because he's been playing the Ravens.
Fortunately, that defense, and those Ravens, no longer exists.
2. `Tom can't throw the deep ball`.
Oh, how his detractors like to cherry pick and harp on alleged weaknesses and skew the narrative by ignoring all of his strengths.
It isn't always easy, I imagine, to hit the deep ball with a 5'7 WR who is being covered by a tall 6'2 defensive back. No, Tom is not the greatest long ball thrower in the history of the league, but there is an element of coaching here as well. Do Tom's bombs get under thrown and intercepted on these plays? Or does he miss the mark by throwing it a yard too far? (which would be caught, btw, with stereotypical, tall WR's who clear the field with long strides and long arms).
What have we seen Belichick tell rookie back ups before? "Have you ever lost a game over an incomplete pass? Think about it." The answer, Belichick teaches them, is no.
Yes, he misses the deep ball sometimes. He also rarely throws interceptions with them.
3. Weapons.
Our offense is elite, but where's all the elite weapons? What's different about the Patriot offense that its offense is elite but it differs from the other elite offenses in lacking an abundance of elite targets?
Tom Brady.
What's so wonderful about Peyton Manning? Do you know how many times I see him dump off a two yard pass that the receiver or tight end then breaks three tackles on and takes 60 yards to the endzone?
Our guys are manageable. They're decent. They're better than last year.
But if Peyton Manning were on our team instead of Tom Brady, we would flat out #%$#ing suck. Our guys can't do stuff like that on 2 yard easy dump offs, at least not to the degree that Manning's can.
All we have is Gronk, and if Peyton Manning were our quarterback, he would have already killed him with his hospital balls.
70% of NFL fans didn't know who the hell Lafell was until he came here.
Last year we were in the AFC Championship game with Tom throwing to Hooman and Mulligan.
Where's the credit?
4." Stats are for losers. Final score is for winners. And that's really what it's all about."
People like to say Flacco out played Brady in the AFC Championship of 2011, while Brady was taking the long, hard road, against a brutal defense seemingly tailor made to counter him. Flacco threw against the 2nd worst defense in the league, with holes everywhere.
"Brady played poorly."
I didn't see that. He struggled, but struggling is not playing poorly. Playing poorly is what we see in Denver's 2013 Superbowl humiliation. Instead I saw a competitor, willing to go above and beyond to claw and scratch his way to victory. I don't see Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning diving over lines and getting their backs almost broken by Ray Lewis in order to get the crucial touchdown.
If that's what Rodgers or Peyton need to do to win a game, they, to put it simply, don't win the game.
Most of the time he'll get us the win through his elite skill and his elite ability and it'll be uniquely dominant.
Other times he gets it through sheer force of Will.
And I would think someone quoting Nietzsche in their forum signature could respect that.
In conclusion, Felger is a dumb, stupid ass#@!#
