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If tonight’s game had featured Brady and Patriots coaches versus the Washington Football Team, this would be the summary right now:
Silly that for all these years, many of us truly believed that Brady was the greatest at executing a gameplan to perfection and maximized the large coaching advantages the Patriots organization gave him.
How can anyone watch the Bucs and actually believe there’s ample truth to that? Sure, Brady has some great receivers, but his command, decision making, accuracy, confidence, pre-snap reads, presumed preparation/film study...they are all the same.
The Bucs offense just played in ten degree weather against a top passing defense and put up 500+ yards. There wasn’t one Brady pass that even had a chance of being intercepted. Brady dissected this defense and made some huge clutch throws down the stretch.
Byron Leftwich is the OC.
- Washington came into the game having allowed an average of just 191 passing yards, 3rd in DVOA, 3rd in opponent passer rating. Thy hadn’t allowed over 17 points in their last six games and over 23 just once in their last eleven games.
- The 381 passing yards were double the average amount of passing yards.
- Belichick came up with a series of brilliant packages, including an exotic 6-man OL and used a variety of wide receiver combos, rotating Antonio Brown and Tyler Johnson depending on the matchups.
- Credit the coaching staff for breaking down film and finding some major weaknesses and tendencies in the Washington secondary.
- Josh McDaniels called a brilliant game that included a 36-yard run by Brown and a well designed screen pass to Fournette for 22-yards. He also schemed Brown for a wide open touchdown pass.
- They were able to compensate for the big loss of Alex Cappa by using their unique roster depth and next man up philosophy.
- Rob Gronkowski was used mainly as a blocker and decoy as Belichick used a variety of intelligent ways to maximize his value.
- Credit Tom Brady for executing the gameplan to near perfection, despite a few off target throws. Brady was crisp and efficient in carrying out McDaniels’ scheme.
Silly that for all these years, many of us truly believed that Brady was the greatest at executing a gameplan to perfection and maximized the large coaching advantages the Patriots organization gave him.
How can anyone watch the Bucs and actually believe there’s ample truth to that? Sure, Brady has some great receivers, but his command, decision making, accuracy, confidence, pre-snap reads, presumed preparation/film study...they are all the same.
The Bucs offense just played in ten degree weather against a top passing defense and put up 500+ yards. There wasn’t one Brady pass that even had a chance of being intercepted. Brady dissected this defense and made some huge clutch throws down the stretch.
Byron Leftwich is the OC.