How Will Posterity Remember Brady

[Unkindness]

Part of the issue with Brady's legacy is that he came out gangbusters.

10-0 in his first 10 post season games.

7-7 in his last 14.

His TD to interception ratio has also been terrible in those last 14.

We tend to remember recent history.

[steelerchad]

Originally Posted by ZoneBlitzer

Ah, I don't think that has anything to do with it. If their spying was so critical why did they eke out their wins? If anything they got away with murder by mugging the receivers they faced. Everyone knows about how their secondary manhandled and interfered with the Rams for their first SB win. After their last win, you got to look to changes on the team as well as luck. All of their SBs have been close win or lose.

Isn't that just it though. They won close games using cheated to gain a slight advantage. It wasn't a fool proof plan to dominate the other team. But having the right D called or adjusting slightly at the line of scrimmage or getting a little jump in the right direction on the snap got a less talented team over the hump against better competition.
They were not as talented as the teams they beat in a lot of those playoff games.

[steelerchad]

I'll equate the cheating this way. I play a guy at a sport weekly. He's pretty much a cheating SOB, but it's hard to find a game with decent competition on my side of town so we continue to play. The cheating is always there, but is amplified late in games coming down to the wire. Occasionally he will win a game he shouldn't have won because of it.

It's just an extra little edge he gets that he wouldn't be allowed to get in a tournament setting with a ref.

[plenewken]

Originally Posted by fansince'76

Bingo! Getting shown up by Peyton's little brother TWICE on the biggest stage automatically removes him from the "best ever" discussion, IMO. Sorry, but the "best QB ever" should have been able to muster more than two TDs against the NFC's 5th seed. Not to mention getting outplayed by Flacco in 2 AFCCGs in his own backyard.

Well. This is not going to help Ben's image cause Ben has been clearly outplayed by the 3 QBs he's faced in the SBs he's played, even if he ended up with 2 rings.

[wwhickok]

Originally Posted by ZoneBlitzer

Oh, they're done. They won't be back with that regime.

I think theyll win the division for 2the more seasons...after that I think the Patriots are going to return to .the cellar.

[fansince'76]

Originally Posted by plenewken

Well. This is not going to help Ben's image cause Ben has been clearly outplayed by the 3 QBs he's faced in the SBs he's played, even if he ended up with 2 rings.

Cool story, bro. In case you hadn't noticed, Roethlisberger has nothing to do with the thread. I also don't ever recall Roethlisberger getting endlessly knobslobbed as the "BEST EVURRRRR," either.

[NSMaster56]

Originally Posted by Atlanta Dan

Probably more acurate to caption the rankings as "post-1978 rules changes" rather than "post-merger"

Stats for 1970s QBs are based on a different game - Staubach (2 rings, 4 Super Bowls (with the 2 losses to the 70s Steelers) arguably is comparable to Elway in terms of success and style of play

Very true.

Well said.