The thing that I admire so much about Tom Brady he had few physical gifts, in fact NOTHING physical about him even sniffed at being anything other than being ordinary for his first 5 or 6 years in the league. What he DID have going for him were 3 things. A HOF mind, tremendous physical toughness, (I mean Grogan and Bledsoe tough) and a psychotic will to compete and be better. From the get go, Brady processed the game at a high level, and his "compete level" allowed him to do what we thought was impossible prior to him.