If Brady has good success this season without Gronk, Hernandez and Welker, I will be quite impressed. Brady is a great pocket passer but he isn't the complete package. He's not that mobile on his feet, nor can he take hits like Rodgers. Plus he slides like a biotch. He is good with QB sneaks, however. I know Gronk will be back, but I doubt he's back to his old self before mid season. We might face him 100% in the 2nd game, but I doubt he does anything at all if he even plays in week 2.
The only season he wasn't the focus of the team was his first year starting in 2001 when he rescued the team and franchise. After that he was the focus. he was good in 2001, very good in 2002 then great 2003-current. Rodgers played on a team w/ a D as good or better than any Brady played in 2009 & 2010 and he has consistently had amazing weapons which Brady never had until he got Randy Moss then gronkowski. He still has a boatload of talent around him. They will be great on offense b/c of Rodgers and the talent around him. Aaron Rodgers is a GREAT QB, he's on a HOF path but Brady is in the discussion for best ever and it's not even close who the best QB of the last 15 years has been. Jet fans don't seem to get how great Brady has been b/c of our jealousy over NE's success. Everyone makes excuses about the D, Belichick, Weis, etc... but what did those Ds do w/o Brady? what ahs BB done as a HC w/o Brady? what has Weis ever done w/o Brady? He's stumbled later in his career in postseason a few times but if his D(you know, the great Ds that carried him:lol doesn't give up 2 late TDs in the last 2 SBs then he has 5 SB rings. The difference btw the first 2 SB wins and last 2 SB losses was that when the D choked late they still gave him time to come back and he did in the first 2 while in the last 2 he had no time.
He led a team w/ reche Caldwell and jabar Gaffney as his 2 main weapons to the brink of a Super Bowl. if his D doesn't allow 27 pts in the title game and blow a huge lead an offense w/ reched Caldwell and Jabar Gaffney starting would have appeared in the Super Bowl. let that sink in for a moment. He has nothing left to prove in this league.
Post knee, Brady has struggled with throwing the ball down the field. Gronk made up for that a lot....with his ability to get contested balls.. But yeah Brady isnt a great down the field passer. The offense is a paper cut dink and dunk you to death...as Brady is probbaly more accurate than anyone with passes within 7 yards. Right now, Im taking Rodgers all day.
The lack of outside receivers/down the field threats also affects Brady's challenges with the long ball, but the short passing of Brady is so good that the lack of outside receivers hasn't been that much of a negative until the playoffs or against tougher defenses that require the TEs to stay and block for an extra second or two
This is like comparing apples and space shuttles. They are two totally different QB's. One can actually move outside of the pocket and deliver ridiculously accurate throws while on the run, while the other wouldn't make it to the sideline if you gave him 10 minutes to get there. As a pure pocket passer, I am taking Brady all day. With 2 minutes to go down by 7, there is nobody else I would rather have under center. Rodgers legacy will depend on his long term success. If he turns the packers into an NFC powerhouse and they stay there for the next 10 year's like the Pats have in the AFC, he will go down in the Top 10 to ever play. Another SuperBowl victory wouldn't hurt his stock either.
So in other words the offense lost them the game. :lol: If I recall correctly, that was when the Patriots had a semi decent defense.
The O put up 27 pts, that should be enough to win a championship game especially against one of the legendary chokers at QB that they faced that day.
Brady vs Rodgers ??? Tough choice. Rodgers is the better athlete. Rodgers get's the ball out of his hands as quick as anybody that I've seen and he throws on the run with accuracy. Brady has a quick release and is an accurate passer but he lacks Rodgers' mobility. Now, let's move on to the real question. Who is the better QB: Brady or Tebow ? :grin:
:drunk: Lets see, Brady (the metrosexual) who has a "Beard" vs Rodgers who has a live in boyfriend. Now, who comes out of the closet first? If Brady doesn't pump out a kid in the next few years, I vote Him. If not, Rodgers will come out once he retires and writes his book. Sorry, couldn't resist. :drunk:
I'm pretty sure last year already showed how dependent Rodgers is on Jennings and Driver. Jennings + Driver: 44 rec, 443 yds, 6 TDs Rodgers: 4295 yds, 67.2%, 39 TDs, 8 INTs, 108.0 rating Something tells me he'll be ok without them
Brady's the 2nd best QB of the last decade. Rodgers is the 2nd best QB of the last 5 years. If you had to take one of them over the other obviously you'd take Rodgers at this point because he's not a million years old and the chances are much lower that his career deflates suddenly in any given year. If you wanted the single guy most likely to give you a great year next year without worrying about who was around him in the offense you'd take Drew Brees. Everybody looks at Peyton Manning right now as the likely record holder in many departments when he retires, and they're right. Nobody realizes that Drew Brees is pulling a Hank Aaron to Manning's Willie Mays and that if he plays another 6 years he's going to own the record books. The delta he has established in the last 7 seasons is ridiculous. He's the only QB ever to go over 5,000 yards back to back seasons and he's got 3 of the top 5 single season records in that category. You can argue that stadium effects work in his favor since he plays indoors in a dome. Again, Aaron vs Mays, Fulton County Stadium vs Candlstick Park is the primary reason it was Aaron passing Ruth and not Mays.
Agreed. The more relevant question is Brees vs Rodgers. It's amazing how Brees continues to get overlooked. Brady would no longer be in my top 3.
