240 wins...a milestone, and still going. Is 300 in his sights?

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

After notching his 240th win, TB12 is 80% of the way to...don’t adjust your monitor...300 wins (regular season and postseason combined).

At this pace, staying healthy, desiring to continuing playing, and maintaining the same winning percentage, he’d get there approximately at age 46 season, 2023. We are a long way from that, and I’d put the odds at well less than 50% of it happening. But let’s remember that Tom is no longer just playing for championships; he is playing to win foremost, but he is also playing to prove what’s possible in athletics by extending his career to absurd lengths. You might call his fitness regimen and burning desire to beat Father Time his life’s purpose and spirituality (not to mention post-career business ambitions,). He has stated a desire to play to 45...if this number is within reach you wonder if it’s too tempting to pass up.

Merely because the odds are against him (he seems to like that), it doesn’t mean you can’t marvel/fantasize at what would be the most remarkable, virtually impossible feat in the history of American sports. It would be a testament to unheard of longevity and unheard of dominance combined. 300 wins would the cleanest, most cited stat for future generations.

Consider:

Peyton Manning, aka Mr. Week 17, is in second place with 200 wins. He played a lot of seasons and won a lot of games.

Only six other players have 150 wins.

Brett Favre is the career leader in games started at 322.

One more thing: Belichick is 53 wins from D-Bag Shula’s career win record. Brady is 60 wins from 300. Both would hit the mark at roughly the same time if they can pull this off for five more years, maintaining their level of success.

 

[supafly]

Knock on wood if you’re with me.

 

[nabwong]

IMO this is harder than winning a 7th Super Bowl. I think the chance is less than 10% that he will reach 300 wins. 275 maybe. It’s a team game and while we have a stacked team this year, the team might look drastically different in the next few years.

 

[supafly]

IMO this is harder than winning a 7th Super Bowl. I think the chance is less than 10% that he will reach 300 wins. 275 maybe. It’s a team game and while we have a stacked team this year, the team might look drastically different in the next few years.

If he reaches 275, that will basically mean that we have three more years of insane football left in the Brady era. I think it would be very difficult, but it would be amazing to see this kind of run through the end of the 2021 season.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

If he reaches 275, that will basically mean that we have three more years of insane football left in the Brady era. I think it would be very difficult, but it would be amazing to see this kind of run through the end of the 2021 season.

Counterpoint: same rational take has been used like this many times, beginning around 2013. Brady’s success and longevity are not rational. You’re up!

I would knock on wood, but TB12 seems to think curses are silly and showed that by staring down the Madden Curse. Giselle on the other hand...

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

IMO this is harder than winning a 7th Super Bowl. I think the chance is less than 10% that he will reach 300 wins. 275 maybe. It’s a team game and while we have a stacked team this year, the team might look drastically different in the next few years.

I’m just saying he’s at .778 winning percentage, averaging 13+ wins a year (including playoffs) over a huge sample size. I do agree it’s much more likely to not happen and is harder than winning #7. But I also think his fanatical drive to play as long as possible isn’t just to win #7...his fitness and diet are like a religion to him.

 

[supafly]

Brady’s success and longevity are not rational. You’re up!

I’ve got nothing.

It’s amazing to witness this.

 

[luuked]

One more thing: Belichick is 53 wins from D-Bag Shula’s career win record. Brady is 60 wins from 300. Both would hit the mark at roughly the same time if they can pull this off for five more years, maintaining their level of success.

BB will get there. Brady won't.

I think he spelled it out quite clearly that he plans to play until 45 and I actually believe him. In contrast to BB he has children growing up that will have started school by then and a wife that annually plays second fiddle for half a year to support his passion. I am not sure changing up on that commitment to them will go over well.

It sucks that the 2008 season essentially took the 300 win milestone out of reach. But I think 6-9 rings will suffice.

BB on the other hand has his (grown) family and children around him more as a coach than he would have if he would be retired. Add in that the man lives and breathes football and I am not sure if there is an expiration date soon.

He might actually coach a game against his son in a few years.

 

[DarrylS]

As nice as this stat is, would prefer another or maybe two SB wins.. if #12 won another SB that would put him in unchartered waters inhaling rarified air.. 6 Superbowl rings and no one else is even close.

Of course there will be those who contend that Bradshaw, Montana and Aikman were undefeated, but no QB has played in 9 Superbowls and has 6 wins..

Not sure that BB is chasing Shula the difference is that BB already has 8 SB rings and Shula has 2, so not a very good comparison there either..

 

[nabwong]

I’m just saying he’s at .778 winning percentage, averaging 13+ wins a year (including playoffs) over a huge sample size. I do agree it’s much more likely to not happen and is harder than winning #7. But I also think his fanatical drive to play as long as possible isn’t just to win #7...his fitness and diet are like a religion to him.

I agree that he loves winning and playing the game and will do it as long as his mind and body will let him. I also think he’s smart enough to walk away on top and when it becomes a danger to himself and affects the quality of his life and his family. Therefore I don’t think it’s play at all costs for him which makes the volume of games less likely than the quality of games he plays in.

 

[tasmlab]

But let’s remember that Tom is no longer just playing for championships;

Don't have a source or anything, but pretty sure Tom wants the championships.

 

[borg]

Word has it....
Disguised as a lawn service weed puller, the Globe’s Ben Volin had been snooping around the Brady family composting space where he supposedly unearthed discarded boxes with “hims” crossed out and replaced with TB12 branding.
Immediately following this discovery, the Globe’s Spotlight team was hastily assembled in John Henry’s Boston Globe lair.
No word yet on conversations within the creep-master’s lair but editors were described as elated upon exiting the windowless crypt.
Whispers are seeping out that the Globe is in lockdown mode and that the Spotlight team has been given a hard deadline of Sunday January 20, 2020.
Word also has it that the Globe has budgeted for a 44 page special edition section for this Jan 20 date. To offset costs, the Globe plans to minimize its AFC Championship coverage and only fund a 150 word Shaughnessy column on Championship Sunday.

OT: Exterior cameras were recently installed behind the TB12 Performance Center in Foxboro after repeated dumpster disturbances had been discovered

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

BB will get there. Brady won't.

I think he spelled it out quite clearly that he plans to play until 45 and I actually believe him. In contrast to BB he has children growing up that will have started school by then and a wife that played second fiddle for half a year to his passion. I am not sure changing up on that commitment to them will go over well.

It sucks that the 2008 season essentially took the 300 win milestone out of reach. But I think 6-9 rings will suffice.

BB on the other hand has his (grown) family and children around him more as a coach than he would have if he would be retired. Add in that the man lives and breathes football and I am not sure if there is an expiration date soon.

He might actually coach a game against his son in a few years.

I hope not. I hope that when BB retires the HC gig is passed down to his son (this is years down the line.) The belichick defensive philosophy remains intact.

 

[maust]

Of course there will be those who contend that Bradshaw, Montana and Aikman were undefeated, but no QB has played in 9 Superbowls and has 6 wins..

Always disappointing when that one gets trotted out by the Brady haters. If the best they've got is Montana was better because in the years his team wasn't the best he had the good sense to lose sooner in the playoffs (or not even get there) you know right out of the gate you've got no shot at any kind of a decent sports argument.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Always disappointing when that one gets trotted out by the Brady haters. If the best they've got is Montana was better because in the years his team wasn't the best he had the good sense to lose sooner in the playoffs (or not even get there) you know right out of the gate you've got no shot at any kind of a decent sports argument.

Tell any athlete “4 gold medals is better than 6 golds and 3 silvers” and they’ll look at you like the moron you are.

 

[NashuaPats]

No... just no

 

[makoute]

Don't be greedy!

 

[maust]

Tell any athlete “4 gold medals is better than 6 golds and 3 silvers” and they’ll look at you like the moron you are.

Agreed but I don't have to go through that trouble to get looked at like the moron I am, my wife is right here so it requires no effort on my part at all

 

[oldrover]

Always disappointing when that one gets trotted out by the Brady haters. If the best they've got is Montana was better because in the years his team wasn't the best he had the good sense to lose sooner in the playoffs (or not even get there) you know right out of the gate you've got no shot at any kind of a decent sports argument.

Every time Mike Francesa on WFAN gets to "best QB", he picks Montana for exactly that (BS) reason. He uses the same twisted logic to say that Eli is one of the top four QB's in league history, because he has two SB MVP's (only three others have that or more). And of course, when someone calls to say, "So if Joe Flacco wins another Super Bowl, he's in the Hall?", Mike elevates the discussion... by hanging up on them. LOL

 

[PatriotsReign]

After notching his 240th win, TB12 is 80% of the way to...don’t adjust your monitor...300 wins (regular season and postseason combined).

At this pace, staying healthy, desiring to continuing playing, and maintaining the same winning percentage, he’d get there approximately at age 46 season, 2023. We are a long way from that, and I’d put the odds at well less than 50% of it happening. But let’s remember that Tom is no longer just playing for championships; he is playing to win foremost, but he is also playing to prove what’s possible in athletics by extending his career to absurd lengths. You might call his fitness regimen and burning desire to beat Father Time his life’s purpose and spirituality (not to mention post-career business ambitions,). He has stated a desire to play to 45...if this number is within reach you wonder if it’s too tempting to pass up.

Merely because the odds are against him (he seems to like that), it doesn’t mean you can’t marvel/fantasize at what would be the most remarkable, virtually impossible feat in the history of American sports. It would be a testament to unheard of longevity and unheard of dominance combined. 300 wins would the cleanest, most cited stat for future generations.

Consider:

Peyton Manning, aka Mr. Week 17, is in second place with 200 wins. He played a lot of seasons and won a lot of games.

Only six other players have 150 wins.

Brett Favre is the career leader in games started at 322.

One more thing: Belichick is 53 wins from D-Bag Shula’s career win record. Brady is 60 wins from 300. Both would hit the mark at roughly the same time if they can pull this off for five more years, maintaining their level of success.

I hope, pray and wish with every cell in my body that Brady does not play past 45.

I even have witches, shamans & voodoo dolls that will make certain that doesn’t happen

C’mon man, some of you guys are just over the top