Brady at 41 and 42 vs last 2 years of other HOF QBs

[TB12GOATQB]

Hurley's Picks: Tom Brady's Decline Is Fantastic


Theres a good article linked above to go with it but:

By now, you might have heard that he’s 42 years old. Do you know who else played quarterback well at age 42? Nobody. Nobody ever has. So there’s nobody to whom we can compare Brady’s last season-and-a-half. So instead of that, we’ll have to look at the final two seasons of a number of Hall of Famers to see how their au revoirs to the NFL went.

We’ll go in terms of passer rating, from best to worst.

Tom Brady, 2018-19, 24 games
65.4% completion rate
6,606 yards, 7.5 Y/A, 275 Y/G
42 TDs, 15 INTs, 2.8 TD-to-INT ratio
96.7 passer rating
19-5 record

Steve Young, 1998-99, 18 games (age 37 and 38)
61.1% completion rate
4,616 yards, 7.7 Y/A, 256 Y/G
39 TDs, 16 INTs, 2.4 TD-to-INT ratio
95.5 passer rating
13-5 record

Kurt Warner, 2008-09, 31 games (age 37 and 38)
66.6% completion rate
8,336 yards, 7.5 Y/A, 269 Y/G
56 TDs, 28 INTs, 2.0 TD-to-INT ratio
95.2 passer rating
19-12 record

Brett Favre, 2009-10, 29 games (age 40 and 41)
65.2% completion rate
6,711 yards, 7.5 Y/A, 231 Y/G
44 TDs, 26 INTs, 2.0 TD-to-INT ratio
92.2 passer rating
17-12 record

John Elway, 1997-98, 28 starts (age 37 and 38)
57.1% completion rate
6,441 yards, 7.5 Y/A, 222 Y/G
49 TDs, 21 INTs, 2.3 TD-to-INT ratio
89.8 passer rating
22-6 record

Peyton Manning, 2014-15, 25 starts (age 38 and 39)
63.9% completion rate
6,976 yards, 7.5 Y/A, 268 Y/G
48 TDs, 32 INTs, 1.5 TD-to-INT ratio
89.5 passer rating
19-6 record

Joe Montana, 1993-94, 25 games (age 37 and 38)
60.7% completion rate
5,427 yards, 6.9 Y/A, 217 Y/G
29 TDs, 16 INTs, 1.8 TD-to-INT ratio
85.0 passer rating
17-8 record

Warren Moon, 1997-98, 24 starts (age 41 and 42)*
58.3% completion rate
5,310 yards, 6.8 Y/A, 212 Y/G
36 TDs, 24 INTs, 1.5 TD-to-INT ratio
81.3 passer rating
11-13 record

*Moon stayed in the league for two more years, but he started just one more game after 1998.

Jim Kelly, 1995-96, 28 games (age 35 and 36)
57% completion rate
5,940 yards, 7.1 Y/A, 212 Y/G
36 TDs, 32 INTs, 1.1 TD-to-INT ratio
77.6 passer rating
18-10 record

Dan Marino, 1998-99, 27 games (age 37 and 38)
56.7% completion rate
5,945 yards, 6.6 Y/A, 220 Y/G
35 TDs, 32 INTs, 1.1 TD-to-INT ratio
74.9 passer rating
15-12 record

Troy Aikman, 1999-2000, 25 games (age 33 and 34)
59.5% completion rate
4,596 yards, 6.5 Y/A, 184 Y/G
24 TDs, 26 INTs, 0.9 TD-to-INT ratio
74.9 passer rating
11-14 record

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Cross off everyone who retired before 2004 off that list. It’s a different game now and you have scrub QBs putting up stats that beat what top-end QBs we’re putting up pre-2004. One might also argue that you should also draw another line when the new anti-hitting rules came into effect a while ago.

(If you want to include people from then, compare them to what league averages were then, then compare Brady to league averages today and compare how the people in question were relative to the relevant averages. That will be far more meaningful than a direct comparison.)

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Decline = exact same skills with worse supporting cast

 

[DaBronxPats14]

Decline?! Give Brady his HEALTHY Starting O-Line, AB, JG, JE, PD K'NH, JM BW & RBs and then talk chit. Everyone was SCREAMIN about putting AB on Comm*Exempt List knowing that it was a Wrap! Give that 'Belichick Trophy' To NE!

 

[Ochmed Jones]

I have not seen any decline in Brady’s play.

it is the other positions that have seen tremendous decline.

the o line has been injured all year and played last game with out three starters.

the tight end spot had been completely decimated.

wide receiver had been a revolving door.

if we had a normal qb, we could be 4 and 4 at this point. Instead Brady and the defense have willed us to an 8 and 0 record.

 

[Doctor DDS]

Surprisingly Brady also "declined" in 2013 when he was regularly targeting Dobson and Thompkins. Weird how that happened.