Caretaker
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As much as I like sports discussion with all its charms, I was always partial to good old player comparisons, prime delineation and stats geekery. Tom Brady's illustrious career just might be the perfect topic for this offseason: he will enter his 20th season with 6 rings, bunch of individual awards, dozens of game winning drives and millions of haters.
Imagine that you can choose one 'version' of GOAT to be starting QB for your team - just for ONE season. It doesn't mean TB12 will put up exactly the same numbers as he did in, say, 2012 or 2015, but he will have the same skillset, athleticism, health and 'mental makeup'. Oh, and he won't be suspended, in case you wanted to pick 2016.
There is a lot to choose from - after all he authored the book titled How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance. I don't think stats are the be-all and end-all, but I'll provide some to kick this off (not all seasons, just examples):
2007, Record Breaker
68.9% completion rate, 50-8 TD/INT ratio, 300 yards per game, 8.3 yards per attempt, 117.2 passer rating, 49-1 MVP
2010, Unanimous MVP
65.9%, 36-4, 244 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 111.0 rating, 0.8 INT%
2011, Boston TE Party Leader
65.6%, 39-12, 327 ypg, 8.6 y/a, 105.6 rating, playoffs:
67.6%, 8-4, 293 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 100.4 rating
2014, Year of Comebacks
64.1%, 33-9, 257 ypg, 7.1 y/a, 97.4 rating
BUT between W5 and W16 we averaged 34.5 ppg, 399.5 total ypg, and playoffs:
68.9%, 10-4, 307 ypg, 6.8 y/a, 100.3 rating, 7.4 TD%, SB XLIX MVP
2015, Muffed Punts & Missed PATs
64.4%, 36-7, 298 ypg, 7.6 y/a, 102.2 rating
This is with Blount, Develin, Dion, LaFell, Solder, Stork, Wendell (Derby, Gaffney, Gibson and Tyms) on Injured Reserve*
2016, Year of Revenge
67.4%, 28-2, 296 ypg, 8.2 y/a, 112.2 rating, 0.5 INT%, playoffs:
65.5%, 7-3, 379 ypg, 8.0 y/a, 97.7 rating, SB LI MVP
2017, Renaissance
66.3%, 32-8, 286 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 102.8 rating, playoffs:
64.0%, 8-0, 377 ypg, 8.1 y/a, 108.6 rating
* LaFell and Stork came back from IR during season.
Imagine that you can choose one 'version' of GOAT to be starting QB for your team - just for ONE season. It doesn't mean TB12 will put up exactly the same numbers as he did in, say, 2012 or 2015, but he will have the same skillset, athleticism, health and 'mental makeup'. Oh, and he won't be suspended, in case you wanted to pick 2016.
There is a lot to choose from - after all he authored the book titled How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance. I don't think stats are the be-all and end-all, but I'll provide some to kick this off (not all seasons, just examples):
2007, Record Breaker
68.9% completion rate, 50-8 TD/INT ratio, 300 yards per game, 8.3 yards per attempt, 117.2 passer rating, 49-1 MVP
2010, Unanimous MVP
65.9%, 36-4, 244 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 111.0 rating, 0.8 INT%
2011, Boston TE Party Leader
65.6%, 39-12, 327 ypg, 8.6 y/a, 105.6 rating, playoffs:
67.6%, 8-4, 293 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 100.4 rating
2014, Year of Comebacks
64.1%, 33-9, 257 ypg, 7.1 y/a, 97.4 rating
BUT between W5 and W16 we averaged 34.5 ppg, 399.5 total ypg, and playoffs:
68.9%, 10-4, 307 ypg, 6.8 y/a, 100.3 rating, 7.4 TD%, SB XLIX MVP
2015, Muffed Punts & Missed PATs
64.4%, 36-7, 298 ypg, 7.6 y/a, 102.2 rating
This is with Blount, Develin, Dion, LaFell, Solder, Stork, Wendell (Derby, Gaffney, Gibson and Tyms) on Injured Reserve*
2016, Year of Revenge
67.4%, 28-2, 296 ypg, 8.2 y/a, 112.2 rating, 0.5 INT%, playoffs:
65.5%, 7-3, 379 ypg, 8.0 y/a, 97.7 rating, SB LI MVP
2017, Renaissance
66.3%, 32-8, 286 ypg, 7.9 y/a, 102.8 rating, playoffs:
64.0%, 8-0, 377 ypg, 8.1 y/a, 108.6 rating
* LaFell and Stork came back from IR during season.