Wait so Mac 10 is trying to make a case the 07 Giants were one of the worst teams to make a SB?
This is why you can never look at just records. Yes their regular season record wasn't good. But anyone who watched football knew that defense was top tier.
If you want to blame Brady for losing to huge underdogs. Well...you have to go the other way too. Patriots don't win SB 36 without Brady. If you look at media predictions going into that game, everyone had the Rams winning big. Especially on that track in NO.
So let's just go with the premise Brady cost the team SB 42 (Not true). But let's give you that.
Brady is directly responsible for SB 38. 29 points (Carolina) will win most SB's. Brady got 32. Led the game winning FG drive at the end.
Now let's go to SB 49. Down 24-14 with time running down against the LOB. Brady has two TD drives to win the game. Now, you may say "Seattle should've run it. Brady got lucky". Ok. But do you realize how lucky Seattle was to even be in position to win that game? David Tyree nearly happened all over again.
SB 51: 28-3 with like 23 minutes left. I don't care how piss poor Brady might've played up to that point. When you do what he did--that is a once in a billion type situation. No other QB would've pulled off what he did. If he had 3 SB wins before 28-3, then won his 4th, I think the comeback would've been enough to put him ahead of Montana. But this game, and his 5th, ended the debate forever.
SB 53: That was a defensive slugfest. Best defense on the other side. Regardless, Brady led another game winning score. Everyone knew the game was over after the Gronk catch. But I will give Belichick credit for redeeming himself after SB 52. Because as terrible as he was that day, he was equally as brilliant against the Rams.
SB 55: Three TD passes. 10 points would've won the game. But TB isn't in the SB if Brady never went there imo. His D played great. But Brady was still great too.
SB 52 was lost due to coaching. Nothing else. Brady getting strip sacked is stuff that happens. But the man put up 33 points.
SB 39: Balanced win. No doubt. The final score of that game doesn't truly reflect the game itself. NE was better.
SB 46: Brady's "worst" SB game. Yet...he left the field with the lead. Manning made a great throw. And the other dude made an equally better catch. Again...that defense was top notch.
So if your going to say Brady was "lucky" for the pick and 28-3, you have to say he was equally unlucky when Tyree happened. And what about Welker? Yeah it wasn't a perfect throw. But he's caught worst thrown balls. Brady was especially unlucky when the 2nd best CB got benched in SB 52.
Luck goes both ways.
Brady is 7-3. Sounds about right.
Btw, Montana did throw a pick in SB 23. Let's be honest. The dude had it and dropped it. And Brady has been in 6 more SB's than Joe. So obviously he's going to have more picks. And being in more SB's increases the likelihood of you losing a few.
I don't know where the Brady hate comes from. But he's the undisputed GOAT. There's no argument to be had he isn't.
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This is a really good rendition with a couple quibbles.
First agreed on 2003, Brady was stellar. People keep saying it was the Patriots D without realizing that Brady put up the second greatest statistical performance in SB history at the time.
As for 2007, the Patriots were playing beaten by the better team on that day.
So--I do disagree with you on 2011. It was definitely not Brady's worst performance. It was actually a pretty good performance. And it shows you what can happen when you go all in for a Super Bowl. Sometimes the clearly better team (the Patriots) can lose because of a totally unprecedented turn of events coupled with self-inflicted miscues, and really just outright weirdness. The Patriots defense got manhandled in the first half and the offense really got itself its first chance a good chunk of the way thru the 2nd quarter. How they ended up leading going into half time is a mystery. But that safety in the 1st qtr when Brady overthrew Branch? I'm not doubting he threw it past him intentionally, but as soon as Brady threw it, Branch cut toward the sideline which showed the QB and WR weren't even on the same page. Both of the announcers opined that they'd never seen a penalty called ever before in that situation, and on the halftime show Boomer Esiason said it was one of the most ridiculous calls he'd ever seen. Whatever--the point is, the Patriots barely got the ball because of this really weird turn of events.
Here's why I believe Brady had a good game. Second half, he broke the Super Bowl record for consecutive completions. The Giants were reeling as the Patriots were already up on them trying to go up 2 scores in the 4th quarter. After a string of completions, the Giants were gassed. Bill O'Brien for some bizarre reason took his foot off the gas pedal and decided to bring in a jumbo package when the Patriots got down to the Giants 30. The Giants countered with a big unit replacing their gassed defense. They run blitzed and stuffed the Patriots for a 3 yard loss. The next 2 plays are well remembered, 2 drops by WRs including Wes Welker's infamous drop. The Patriots didn't score. A week later we were treated in game audio of not only the refs saying, "That would have been game," after Welker's drop, but Strahan and a couple of Giants muttering to one another, "We've got no answers right now, they're doing whatever they want."
The game got shortened by the Giants, kudos to Coughlin, but the Patriots were by far superior, and only crazy things prevented that win. It happens.
About the Bucs-Chiefs Super Bowl, people tend to forget that Brady put up a huge amount of points in the first half and another 10 early in the second half. One could argue this is what made Mahomes look so bad. When you become one dimensional, the opposing team is going to blitz you mercilessly, but you need that big lead to take those big risks. The Bucs offense went into kill the game clock mode.
SB 55: Three TD passes. 10 points would've won the game. But TB isn't in the SB if Brady never went there imo. His D played great. But Brady was still great too.
