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If Brady got drafted by, say, the Colts and Peyton stays healthy, he spends a couple of years (if he’s lucky) as a back-up and is out of the league.
Lol…yes, let’s choose the #1 team, out of 32, with the very best quarterback situation from 2000-04. I’m guessing that from that timeframe, 90% of teams either (a) had a non-elite starting quarterback who Brady may have surpassed, or (b) would have had an injury scenario where Brady would have had a chance to start and prove himself.
The Colts scenario is a laughable theoretical, just like, butwhaddddifff Brady got drafted by the Browns! because, hey, it makes a theoretical argument so much stronger when you choose the absolute worst case scenario.
The fact is, the Patriots were one of the worst situations, objectively, when Brady was drafted in 2000, and being behind Bledsoe in 2000 was about as bleak as it can get for starting QB aspirations. It’s not unreasonable at all to think Brady would have gotten his shot. Practices, preseason, mop-up time replacing the starter, starter gets benched, starter gets hurt, end of season chance…almost every backup gets a chance at some point and talent is rarely overlooked in the NFL. He had already moved up #4 to #2 in New England in one year.
It was the most obvious example. Teams that need QBs don't generally pick them in the late rounds, Tom Sr. Teams that take flyers near the end of the draft on a QB are typically pretty set in the position. Think he would have unseated McNabb? Hell, he was QB 4 to start with the Pats - how many teams would even carry 4?
Go look at the QB drafts - you'll see that, no, most QBs taken near the end don't ever get a chance, and if they do, it's on a short string. Brady's first few games weren't exactly world-beaters, leading up to a bad loss in Denver (3-2 record).
But still, you're so dug in defensively that you're not even paying attention to anything I'm actually saying here. The situation worked out for Brady, but it didn't have to. There's no magic gene that makes someone get that chance, or says that someone's talent, particularly as intangible as was Brady's - not overly athletic, not a plus arm coming out, not a great college career - he wasn't the GOAT coming out. Get out of here with that revisionist nonsense.