It’s very hard to see if there’s going to be one breakout, clear number one wide receiver for Tom Brady to throw to, but the New England Patriots have always succeeded, even without a clear default passing option like Wes Welker has been over the last six seasons, giving Kamar Aiken and rookie Aaron Dobson a chance to shine. More
Unless the injury situation for the New England Patriots improves in the next couple of months leading up to the 2013 NFL Season, Tom Brady may be up to face his greatest challenge yet as a quarterback, with a very unimpressive bunch of guys ready to catch his throws, while the elite section of his receiving and tight end core from last season is either gone or injured. More
Knowing that the NFL is a business above everything else doesn’t mean it’s easy to accept, even for someone like Tom Brady, who has been around the league for 13 years. The departure of Wes Welker, his favorite passing target for the last six seasons, the best of his career, didn’t really surprise him, but it’s hard to say he wasn’t disappointed. More
How do you measure greatness? By wins, or Super Bowl rings? Or is it simply by which quarterback – head coach duo resonates better in the minds of NFL fans over the years? Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are the most successful partners in terms of overall wins, but others have their accomplishment of three Super Bowl rings, and there’s even one duo that beats that. More
After going over the worst picks in NFL Draft history, it’s also good to remember the good things – the steals, and players who turned out to be a lot better than anyone expected after getting picked in the sixth and seventh rounds, with legendary players like Dan Marino and Roger Staubach among those GM’s passed over and lived to regret it, while Tom Brady represents the more modern example of excellent and the opposite of it in pro prospect scouting. More
While total interceptions and interception percentage are always a good way to see how well a quarterback handles the ball, the adjusted interceptions formula gives us a clearer version of who are the more responsible and careless passers in the NFL, as rookies Andrew Luck and Brandon Weeden tend towards the latter, while Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers seem to be the safest players to entrust the football with. More
While usually it is the defense and secondary of the New England Patriots that get most of the criticism for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick missing out on a fourth Super Bowl ring these past few years, taking a look at some of the numbers suggest that their offense is just in need of a fix, at least when you look at their playoff performances and not the regular season. More
The NFL is first and foremost a business. There’s a reason a disliked and unethical person like Roger Goodell is the commissioner – he makes the owners a lot of money. And while decisions are almost always based on cold hard facts and numbers, Tom Brady got his huge contract with the New England Patriots for other reasons as well. More
After the “storm” of how wise or wasn’t it to give Tom Brady a contract extension giving him and the New England Patriots a partnership that takes them into his fifth decade blows over, the real question will be if Brady continues to be an elite quarterback, on a top rated offense (mostly thanks to him), in four or five years from now. More
There’s something special about sport rivalries in the modern-day NFL that bring out so much hate and emotion from one side upon the other, and no one does it more passionately than Terrell Suggs when he talks about how much he and the Baltimore Ravens hate the New England Patriots. More