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Funny how fans who don't know any better still use this label on Brady.
I think 90% of it is just anti-Brady stuff from haters or just to yank Patriot fans chains but it's funny how this has stuck over the years. And today we're hearing the hot takez come in using this label as somehow last night (like 2008 with Cassel) was "proof" that Brady is a system quarterback. To me last night was a testament to Belichick's all time greatness at what he does and has little to do with Brady but I digress.
I know every quarterback in a way is a system QB but let's use the term as the knock that it is. Scouts call a lot of guys system guys and I can't think of one of them who had this label who amounted to anything in the NFL. To me it's a label you get in college - that you are only good in that particular offensive system and you would be exposed very quickly when you stepped up in weight class and outside the system. Does that sound like Tom?
Maybe they think that Tom being so good at the short to medium passing game makes him a fake QB or something. Maybe they are 15 years behind the times and still think Tom has no arm and that makes him a fake QB. Maybe you're not a real QB if you play for one coach and one team in your career. None of these are true of course.
Very bizarre.
I think 90% of it is just anti-Brady stuff from haters or just to yank Patriot fans chains but it's funny how this has stuck over the years. And today we're hearing the hot takez come in using this label as somehow last night (like 2008 with Cassel) was "proof" that Brady is a system quarterback. To me last night was a testament to Belichick's all time greatness at what he does and has little to do with Brady but I digress.
I know every quarterback in a way is a system QB but let's use the term as the knock that it is. Scouts call a lot of guys system guys and I can't think of one of them who had this label who amounted to anything in the NFL. To me it's a label you get in college - that you are only good in that particular offensive system and you would be exposed very quickly when you stepped up in weight class and outside the system. Does that sound like Tom?
Maybe they think that Tom being so good at the short to medium passing game makes him a fake QB or something. Maybe they are 15 years behind the times and still think Tom has no arm and that makes him a fake QB. Maybe you're not a real QB if you play for one coach and one team in your career. None of these are true of course.
Very bizarre.
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