Brady used to do that to great effect. He used to duck out of the way when defenders ran up behind him, and people would be like, "How in the world did he know they were coming?" When you see him ducking for ghosts, you understand that he heard something those times and was guessing. He did it to great effect. I'd rather him "see ghosts" or whatever than take those hits from behind. Bruschimade the same points as me in a segment with Ryan Clark on ESPN. It was deliberate.
There's a reason Brady has so few turnovers over his career, and it's precisely because of those moves in the pocket.
ou quote the Giants Super Bowl game and then neglect to mention how Michael Strahan was in awe because he said Brady stood in there taking hard hit after hard hit like no QB he's ever seen before. Strahan has commented many times on how he learned about Brady's toughness that game.
A few years ago we used to post that pro football stats study that showed the 3 QBs in the league who were hit more than anyone and received the fewest calls were Peyton Manning at #3, Tom Brady at #2 and Ben Roethlisberger who far outpaced everyone at #1. These 3 guys took hit after hit and stood in there. I'd say these 3 were the least effected by pressure of any QBs I've seen, and you can be dumb like Joe Kapp and Steve Grogan and stand back there without flinching, but it doesn't help your team to turn the ball over and make bad throws just because you look foolish when avoiding a defender who isn't there.
