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Joe Flacco & Mark Sanchez are the Only Quarterbacks to Beat Tom Brady & Peyton Manning in the Same Playoff Year
Would you call Joe Flacco an elite quarterback? While that’s still debatable, he does have a Super Bowl ring, and the “elite” contract to showoff with. How about Mark Sanchez? No one would call him elite, or even a good quarterback. But the two do have something in common – they’ve both beaten Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the playoffs, in the same year.
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NFL Rumors – New England Patriots Need Tom Brady Better Than Ever
Chances are that when the 2013 NFL season kicks off, the New England Patriots won’t have their two starting tight ends, Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, each for his own reason, which might make it a very tough year for Tom Brady and the attempt to win another Super Bowl.
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New England Patriots – Aaron Dobson & Kamar Aiken Might Have a Better Season Than Expected
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.
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New England Patriots – Tom Brady Throwing to a Bunch of Nobodies
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.
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NFL Rumors – New England Patriots Facing an Unhappy Tom Brady Next Season
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.
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Quarterback-Head Coach Duos With Most Wins in NFL History
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.
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10 Biggest Draft Steals in NFL History
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.
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Tom Brady Throws Less Interceptions Than Any Other NFL Quarterback
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.
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New England Patriots – Fixing the Offense, not the Defense
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.
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New England Patriots – Tom Brady Stayed For Un-Business Like Reasons
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.