As for the Patriots' offense, and specifically the passing game, Brady said he uses one of the team's main rivals as a measuring stick.
"I always look at the Colts as the standard for passing offenses and what those guys have accomplished over the years and them being together for as long at they have; they're impossible to stop," Brady said. "Us being together for such a short time we're trying to reach a point that we feel the same way."
Has Brady ever wondered what he could accomplish if he played in the Colts' offense, or an offense like it?
"I don't have a whole lot of what-ifs. We won three Super Bowls," he answered. "They have great players and they have a great team. We have over the years too. It's nice being here. It's nice playing with the guys I've had. We've had tremendous players, especially at the receiver position, guys that have left here like Deion [Branch], [David] Givens and David [Patten] that are still playing really well. It's just you create ways, different ways, when you get new players to get them the ball and the different type of routes change. We're still working through things."
Does Brady feel like he's playing in a Colts-style offense now?
"I think what they do really well is they're very balanced and if you decided you want to play a lot of Cover-2 and stop the outside guys then they run it and throw the ball inside," he said. "I think those are things you try to do as an offense. You're not trying to squeeze it into double-coverage all day to the outside guys. That's the kind of pressure they put on defenses. I don't know if we're there yet. I think we got a long way to go."
