luuked
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Brady was being asked to pull out multiple game winning drives in undeal positions in his very first SB run and it was abundantly clear he had superior game sense and pocket presence than Bledsoe. The next year he led the league. The next year he was getting MVP votes and basically bailed our defense out of a disaster 4th quarter performance to win a shootout SB. The next year he was dominant and had a 130 passer rating on the road in the AFCCG against the 15-1 Steelers and then a 110 passer rating against the Eagles in the SB. The next year he had his first all Pro.
Please.
Also the guys being considered in this thread are not early years Brady.
This narrative driven myth-building is getting boring. His ANY/A tells his whole story of development. He was an average QB over his first 3 seasons as a starter (2001-2003: < 6 ANY/A), then made a jump into good/great territory (< 7 ANY/A) the next 3 years before joining the elite club ever since in 2007 (multiple seasons of > 8 ANY/A, average somewhere in the higher 7s).
It is very obvious in his numbers and even more so in the way that BB build those teams.
Having individually great games like you are citing above doesn't make someone good, great or elite. It is the consistency that puts you there.
On another note I don't understand why people want to remove from existence what gives his story as a player a lot more depth just to pretend that he was someone amazingly gifted from the start. He wasn't. He has been a grinder that worked tirelessly to get to where he is by absorbing every bit of football knowledge -- whether that is from self-scouting, film or coaches -- and having the capacity to deploy it. None of this lessens his legacy but actually elevates it.
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