With much respect to you and your opinion, that's a bit harsh.
As we've already gone over:
--how about the drop by Crumpler in the endzone?
--the Welker drop for the TD?
--the bobbled snap fake punt that changed to the entire outcome of the game from 7-3 at the half to 14-3 at the half? That gave them all the confidence in the world and the momentum heading into the all important break
--the momentum shifting false start on Branch, not to mention his possibility of mis-timing on another key throw or two
--the cutting of the lead to 14-11, only to have Cotchery march right down the middle of the field on the defense, taking away the crowd and any hopes of a comeback by the players
--the BB call to go for the onside kick, instead of using the 2 timeouts and the 2 min warning to kick the ball deep
--the poor game planning by the coaches, and the entire team in general, with many players coming out and directly saying that they were not prepared for what the NYJ did
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Any of these would come to mind to most of us, even those like myself, who place blame on Brady, yet with the fairness that he deserves.
You are going to ignore all of these key moments, and focus on a guy who had a 65% completion rate, threw for 300 yards, 2 TD's and 1 INT (for the first time in 350 attempts????) Why? Because in your opinion (mine too, just not to your extreme) he looked 'different' thus making him all of a sudden dis-interested? I am sure he was interested, just the same as any other playoff game. The DEN 05 season game could've gone either way had it not been for the Bailey/Watson play. The IND 06 game was highlighted by 2 key TD drops by Caldwell, in a game where Brady put up 34 points--that's your example?
And of course, the 07 SB where we came from behind to take the lead with less than 3 min remaining in a tightly fought defensive game--another poor example. Do you not remember how close we were to winning the 06 AFCCG, and the 07 SB (Manning in the grasp, obvious holding not called, once in a lifetime helmet catch??)
I'll give you a poor TFB performance in the 09 BAL playoff, but again, from the first play on, the whole team looked off.
The "10-0" Tom Brady was helped by 52 other players, as was the past 3 playoff games. If you need him to throw for 400 yards instead of 300, or 3 TD's instead of 'just' 2--then someone else isn't doing their job.
Look, Brady didn't have a great game, not even a 'good' game, but he was still better than many QB's that day, he was 'average.' I'm sure he played just as well as Sanchez did on the winning sideline.
