Tom Brady will long outlast "Jimmy" here in NEYou're a great poster but I don't understand this position. Brady is still playing at an elite level and could deliver one or two more Super Bowls over the next two or three years. JG has not played one complete season let alone a playoff game. IF JG is as good as Aaron Rodgers that may mean one or two trips to the Super Bowl over the next ten years if we're lucky. IF JG is only as good as Philip Rivers we may not see a trip at all.
The most important ability of a QB is to read defenses pre and post snap. Arm strength etc... are secondary. Brady reads defenses and has seen every trick in the book better than any QB in NFL history. JG has had 6 quarters worth of reading defenses and against teams that have not yet had the luxury to gather any game film on him yet. JG could have six great games and fall to mediocrity for the rest of his career for all we know. BB does not know how good JG will be. There isn't anyway to definitely know that until after a few seasons. But one thing we do know is that there will never be another Brady. He is a once in a century type player. He's like a Babe Ruth and do not want my grandchildren to have to deal with the Brady curse fifty years from now.
Age is relative to a player. Brady's 40 or 43 is much different than Ben Roethlisberger's 40 or 43 because of the way they play, take care of their bodies and their diets. Brady may have a similar health as an average 35 year old QB. IOW, when you say it's because Brady is 40 it sounds like you think all 40 year olds experience the exact same deterioration which just isn't true in football or in life.
Statistically, Brady's last five years have been better than his first five years. He is faster than when he was drafted. He reads defenses better than anyone in the league and he is playing without any pressure on his shoulders because of his last two SB victories. His legacy is written in stone and nothing can take his accomplishments away from him and because of that he is the most dangerous QB in the league and because of that he is just having fun. He's not pushing for his long awaited fourth ring and he's not pushing for the vindicating fifth ring. Nope. Now he is just playing for fun and for his teammates. That is freaking dangerous.
I will never understand a trade a known champion for an unknown possibility argument. To me that's possibly throwing away a potential Lombardi or Lombardis. BB would never do that.
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