{"id":14877,"date":"2018-01-03T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:50:00","slug":"inside-numbers-third-totals-plummeted-brady-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/inside-numbers-third-totals-plummeted-brady-achilles-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"INSIDE THE NUMBERS: Third Down Totals Plummeted For Brady After Achilles Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady went from having an MVP caliber season to an un-Brady-like finish where the Patriots weren&#8217;t quite moving with the same precision in the passing game as he was prior to an apparent Achilles injury he suffered against Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Over the final six games, Brady and the Patriots struggled on third down, including a game down in Miami where New England finished without a third down conversion for the first time in 26-years.\u00a0 Some started predicting Brady&#8217;s demise, but instead, the numbers essentially show that Brady simply wasn&#8217;t himself while dealing with the injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Brady 3rd Down Passing Before the Achilles Injury <br \/>(First 10 Games):<br \/>62\/96 (65%) 778yds 7TDs<\/p>\n<p>Final 6 Games (after the injury):<br \/>19\/44 (43%) 241yds 2TDs 6INTs<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PatsFans.com (@PatsFans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatsFans\/status\/947927228972662785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over the first 10 games, Brady finished 62-of-96 (65%) for 778-yards and 7 touchdowns prior to his injury.\u00a0 After the injury, he finished 19-of-144 (43%) for 241-yards, 2 touchdowns, and 6 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>The final two games of this season still weren&#8217;t easy, with Brady completing just 5-of-13 (38%) on third down over that span, including one touchdown and an interception.\u00a0 However, Brady was 3-of-8 Sunday against the Bills, which saw Rob Gronkowski essentially taken away as the Patriots&#8217; game plan kept him in as a blocker and skews those totals.<\/p>\n<p>If it wasn&#8217;t bad enough Brady got hurt, he had to deal with his own injury while dealing with ones from his own team that factored into those numbers.  With Gronkowski out of the passing game Sunday, also missing was James White, Mike Gillislee and Rex Burkhead, who joined Chris Hogan on the inactive list.\u00a0 Hogan spent seven of the final eight games on the sideline, appearing in just the game in Miami while Rob Gronkowski was suspended.  Hogan played 55-of-61 snaps (90%) in that game, but still wasn&#8217;t himself after he finished catching just one of the five passes he was targeted on.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mike Gillislee missed the same span, with the former Bills running back playing in the second to last game of the year against Buffalo.  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