Brady and Newton are not comparable. They are entirely different players at different places in their careers. I hope they both succeed and have good seasons. I’m really not sure why some of us seem to be rooting for either of them to fail.
If healthy, Newton will make the Patriot receivers more productive because they’ll see far more zone coverage. As those of us who have observed the Patriots D struggle against mobile QBs, it’s not so easy for DBs to turn their backs to the QB and play man when the QB is a threat to make a big play with their legs. Edelman, Sanu and Harry will find the holes and Newton is good enough to get the ball to them.
Brady had better hope Gronk is healthy and a reasonable facsimile of himself. Because, as I see it, him and Mike Evans are the only ones of Tampa Bay’s vaunted “weapons” (God, I hate that term) who will be able to decisively beat man coverage which they’re now going to see a ton of with Brady at QB. The rest of those “weapons” are over-rated with inflated statistics from gimme zone coverage receptions allowed by opposing defenses between Jameis Winston interceptions, sacks and strip sacks.