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These f-ing people have nothing else to write about and are uninformed. They do not watch every throw or every game. They look at some numbers and look at a few games and refuse to apply context and historical reference to the here and now.For the life of me I'm trying to see how Brady's performance last season was "less than" year's past, but don't see it in light of what I watched. That offense was sporadic and inefficient at times, while other times it was great. This can be said of the entire team at one point or another last season.
The special teams took until the midpoint or trading deadline to figure themselves out. The defense took until the Bye week (week 12) to figure themselves out. The offense was terrible to start the season, great for a half or a game here and there, then outright terrible for another.
Brady's number's on the year:
375-570 attempts - 66% completions - 4355 yards - 29 TD's - 11 INTs - 98 QB Rating
The only number that is glaring here are his interceptions. Let's delve deeper.
This article below was written after five games. Three of his first six interceptions were not his fault, two of his receivers let the ball slip through his hands into those of a waiting defender, the third was tipped at the line of scrimmage.
www.masslive.com/expo/sports/erry-2018/10/ba0a0eecbd8328/tom-brady-is-on-pace-to-throw.html
Just off the top of my head I can recall Gronk doing the same thing against Buffalo, Develin did the same thing vs Chicago, Edelman did the same thing against the Vikings... I'm pretty sure there was one more but let's leave it there. Crappy receiver play and one tipped ball lead to at least 6 of those interceptions at minimum. Bad football...
Not to mention Josh Gordon only caught 59% of his targets, and around the Minnesota game Jules had a wicked case of the dropsies...
375-570 attempts - 66% completions - 4355 yards - 29 TD's - 5 INTs... adjust those INT's and his QB rating jumps dramatically, his completion percentage jumps also if those balls are caught and the receivers play better all season. Those are typical GOAT Tom Brady numbers.
The offense had to play better, they played great against the Jests because to start the game Hogan and Dorsett were the focal point which opened things up for Jules, Gronk and the rest. If you make the defense defend the whole field, respect every weapon then they can't possibly cover them all. Josh did a better job game planning and scheming to get these guys involved as the season progressed.
Brady isn't the one who scares me, Josh scares me... is he going to revert back to five step drops and 15-20 yard routes only, forget screens, draws, sweeps, play action, trickery, forget that Dorsett and other weapons exist, become vanilla all over again?
I think with a new set of massive WR's Brady has another great year and the notion of the cliff is destroyed yet again.
Once they complete their "analysis" they curb it to be critical so to get clicks.
Any astute observer of TB12's performance last year will say it was not "less than". He certainly had some games and throws that were not up to his standard. He also had some personnel issues at WR and some injury issues at TE and RB which would have any QB at slight disadvantage. When you factor all that in he had a very, very good year.