Rodgers got 2 games against the 0-16 Lions and threw 600 yards and 6 touchdowns in those games. He went 4-10 in his other 14 games lmao his first season is so fucking overrated

Bill Belichick without Tom Brady ordered from best season to worst season

1994: 11-5, lost in divisional round

2021: 10-7, lost in wild card round

2008: 11-5, missed playoffs

2022: 8-9, missed playoffs

1992: 7-9, missed playoffs

1993: 7-9, missed playoffs

2020: 7-9, missed playoffs

1991: 6-10, missed playoffs

1995: 5-11, missed playoffs

2000: 5-11, missed playoffs

2023: 2-10 and counting, missing the playoffs

Playoff wins? 1 in 11 seasons

Playoff appearances? 2 in 11 seasons

Winning seasons? 3 in 11 seasons

The 2023 Patriots have failed to score a point in 24 quarters this season. This is the most scoreless quarters of any Patriots team in the Belichick era. There’s FIVE GAMES LEFT

Brady won a super bowl and 2 division titles in his 3 years in your division lmfao

Checkers is a solved game dude

Yep Tom Brady, who led the league in passing yards and passing touchdowns 2 years ago at 44 years old, could never hope to understand a modern defense lmao gotta love r/nfl, the same sub that voted Brady 101st best player in the league

This play did really well on reddit once upon a time. It has just about everything you want your offense to be able to do when commanded by an elite qb.

1. Edelman goes in motion with 15 seconds left on the play clock. Steelers defense moves in response, revealing information to Brady

2. Brady calls an audible with 8 seconds left on the play clock. All 5 Patriots skill position players recognize the audible and move to brand new spots on the field and get set within 5 seconds of the audible call

3. Ball is snapped with 2 seconds left on the play clock. Play goes for an easy first down

This requires so many things. It requires Brady to be able to identify what the Steelers are likely doing in the Patriots initial formation, be able to quickly identify new information gained based on Edelman’s motion, and requires incredibly quick recognition to take all that information in and make the decision to call an audible to a play that the entire rest of the offense needs to know by heart and get into immediately since time was of the essence. Brady used to use up entire play clocks moving guys in motion, sometimes back and forth multiple times, just to see if someone on the opposing defense would give something away. Sometimes it wasn’t even to see if they would give something away on that play, it was just information that could be used for later. If the Patriots saw a certain formation or personnel package and that specific grouping refused to audible out or respond to motion, it could mean that they won’t in the future.

Manning was also insanely good at this. He’d go up and do the funky chicken at the line of scrimmage shouting the ramblings of an insane person and it was all to get any information he could from the defense. Colts players have said that most of what Manning was saying was jibberish other than the key words that they knew to look out for. Anything to get an extra piece of information that could help.

That type of chemistry and trust takes time. Manning didn’t get it from day 1 with Tom Moore. Brady didn’t get it day 1 with Charlie Weis.

It worked all year until they played a defense where the cornerbacks just fucking held and dared the refs to throw flags.

That Super Bowl was a matchup of a Broncos offense that committed illegal offensive pass interference every play and a Seahawks defense that committed just about every penalty they thought they could get away with.

What most people forget (or didn’t even see) was that in the AFC Championship Game 2 weeks prior to that Super Bowl, Welker went and fucking speared Aqib Talib and knocked him out of the game on an illegal pick, no flag. Broncos were the healthier team going into that game anyway and would have won anyway, but for the Pats to lose their best and most physical corner to a cheap shot with no flag early essentially sealed the victory before halftime. Watching the Seahawks beat the shit out of the Broncos was cathartic after watching Denver get away with that garbage all year to set records.

Hey OP what is the average Offensive Points Per Drive for Belichick teams with Brady vs without? Also it’s funny you mentioned his rings as a defensive coordinator when he had Lawrence Taylor but not his absolutely abysmal defenses when he was the de facto defensive coordinator for the Patriots in 2010 and 2011