Yeah well you aren't objective. He has his good moments and his bad moments as any older QB will. Montana took the Chiefs to the playoffs, but nobody would say that was vintage Montana. Thus, the same will happen in Tampa Bay with the additional problems of a coach who airs his stuff out publicly and teammates that have played for years in a carefree city and coaches.
180 complete degree shift from what he was used to and lived in. This won't be easy due to age, diminishing skills, teammates who are not used to accountability etc.
Maybe Mike Evans cannot run the proper routes. I distinctly remember a play against the Jets about 4 years ago. Jets were playing a zone, and Edelman ran down the field 25 yards or so and stopped, turned around and the ball as there. Brady knew exactly where he would be and the ball was out when he was halfway there.
He will not have that in Tampa. How many WRs have come through that failed here because they couldn't live up to his standards. Moss is an all timer so he was an outlier. Mike Evans is not Randy Moss. Names don't mean anything when the game starts.
Just a question: has any WR come here then failed to connect with Tom, moved on to another team and done even marginally well?
I mean I can name a huge number of WRs that played well with Tom and then moved on to another team and were never heard from again.
There are only a couple of guys who came in, worked well with Brady, then did well with their next teams: Welker, Cooks and Amendola.
Seriously: David Givens, Deion Branch, David Patten, Reche Caldwell, Jabar Gaffney, Donte Stallworth, Brandon Lloyd, Brandon LaFell, Kendall Thompkins, Chris Hogan, etc. They went on to other teams and didn't do much.
Now reverse this process and think of the guys who couldn't connect with Brady: all the draft pick busts from Bethel Johnson on, Chad Jackson, Josh Boyce, Aaron Dobson, Taylor Price -- none of these guys went on to do anything good in the NFL.
Now look at all the FA signings who didn't mesh with Tom: Chad Johnson, Charles Johnson, Torrance Small, Donald Hayes, Dedric Ward, Fred Coleman, David Terrell, CJ Jones, Kelley Washington, Joey Galloway, Greg Lewis, Torrey Holt, Anthony Gonzalez, Austin Collie, Donald Jones, Michael Floyd, Corey Coleman, Eric Decker, Jordan Matthews, etc.
This really tells me that we've been in the bargain basement at Filene's looking in the bins for the left shoe and we always end up finding some mismatched size that no one else wants.