Brady / Belichick First Half Scoring Metric is Crazy

[Ian]

Saw this and it's pretty impressive:

 

[Pape]

we all remember had bad it felt when teams would drive down the field and score on us at the end of the half... never really noticed this, but BB/TB were masters of this strategy... no wonder everyone hated us...

 

[borisman]

Some more impressive stuff from TB12:

- Tom Brady never played a game in his entire career where he was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs going into it.

- For his entire career, Tom Brady has a better chance of getting to the Super Bowl (47.6%) than Steph Curry has of making a 3 pointer (42.2%).

 

[jimnance]

we all remember had bad it felt when teams would drive down the field and score on us at the end of the half... never really noticed this, but BB/TB were masters of this strategy... no wonder everyone hated us...

Yeah and it seemed like half the time they had the 1st possession of the 2nd half and would often score again fir the ol' double dip.
Won a lot of games that way.
At some point a lot of other teams starting copying Belichick's deferring to the 2nd half.
But nobody did it better than us.
Tom Brady would do that for you.

 

[Clonamery]

Some more impressive stuff from TB12:

- Tom Brady never played a game in his entire career where he was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs going into it.

- For his entire career, Tom Brady has a better chance of getting to the Super Bowl (47.6%) than Steph Curry has of making a 3 pointer (42.2%).

What a fantastic weirdo!

 

[Football2007]

Yeah they were masters of the double dip. Teams than became desperate and the defense got turnovers. Bill had opportunities to do it with Mc Jones. But he didn't have confidence in him. I'm assuming we may see it more with Maye.

Tom Brady never started/took a snap where his team was mathematically eliminated from the postseason. That is absurd.

Technically, Mahomes has done it. But that's only because he got injured and wasn't around last year to take snaps when they were done. They miss the postseason even if he is healthy imo.

 

[DH523]

Yeah they were masters of the double dip. Teams than became desperate and the defense got turnovers. Bill had opportunities to do it with Mc Jones. But he didn't have confidence in him. I'm assuming we may see it more with Maye.

I remember this being one of the first "Patriots Belichick" strategies that really felt central to his teams compared to most around the NFL and how New England would often get a swing of 10-14 points depending on the 2 drives. You go into half up say 10-6 or 17-10 and suddenly with that opening 2nd half TD they'd be up 17-6 or 24-10 and the opponents would be scrambling to try and catch up.