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Who's comparing him to Allen? I only compare Brady to Brady as he is the standard. I saw noticeable decline. If others want to hand wave it away and blame everything on coaching/injuries/frustration that is fine. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But Brady not reaching 10 wins in the most putrid division in football had a lot more to do with his play IMO than the team/coaching.
Curious how it doesn't seem any of the D coaches have been fired. Those blown coverages were brutal.
I honestly don't see what 2013 and 2019 have to do with this season.
His demeanor was similar to 2019. He was going to give it his all but he knew the overall roster talent wasn't there and when things went bad he thought to himself well that figures. Also probably by October he realized Bowles was a complete disaster as a head coach.
He used to be the best by miles in the pocket. Do you think he still looks like it? Last year? Yards mean nothing. You guys like to argue in circles but use the same arguments for all players equally. The coaching on the TB bucs was complete crap, TB did not play well and could not elevate the team. BOTH can be true. It's not simply a talent around him issue. If he needs All Pros at every position he might as well retire. Doesn't mean he sucks, but he was absolutely part of the problem. He did not elevate that team on a snap per snap basis and as bad as coaching was, no way he didn't have a say. 18ppg.
He may be but there's a lot of WRs in the pipeline. I think he needs to move up the ranks in yards and TDs to guarantee it.
That's my fear about where he goes next. If the Oline and receivers are not top notch or get hurt, he won't be able to elevate. To me Vegas is a hard no. The Oline is trash.
You said:
What did you see decline in?
That he played better this season than in '13 and '19 and therefore talk of his physical decline is non-sensical.
But that is not a correlation at all. I don't think he played better than those years. I mean Tampa had him throwing an obnoxious amount because they had zero run game.
Brady won 3 games with less than 10 seconds remaining this season. His play was exceptional in 2020 and 2021 per his stats, the results, and my eyeballs. I already said I think his pocket mobility declined this season. Otherwise he looked like the same quarterback physically. And never mind "all pros at every position," there was a noticeable decline in talent at every position around Brady this season.
Focus.
Do you attribute that to age?
The decline around him was very obvious. Again , both can be true. He has played over 20 years and probably averaged 30 points per game in his career in NE. You can't give him credit for that and then not blame him some for this season where they couldn't put up 20. Absolute gong show of an offense with him at the head. Yes, everything went wrong but STILL, he deserves blame. He used to play playoff games and get hit 20 times and it still came down to the last play if they lost. He'd get obliterated and sacked and threw picks and still won SBs. Now he looks lost if the first 2 reads aren't open and YES they lacked talent but those of you who only see that are blind. The most frustrating part was that he allowed the game plans and play calling to continue which by association means he's also responsible for it. You can't have it both ways. He's a veteran QB and no way they played this way without his consent.
Good point, zero run game. Don't you think that's going to have an adverse effect on the passing game? Brady was running a one dimensional offense. That really only worked when he called the plays out of the no huddle. Give the man some credit for trying to make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t.
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