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Stephen Curry is a quarterback… but not with a helmet and shoulder pads. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady might be turning 42 next month, but he sure hasn't looked like it.
Brady is coming off yet another Super Bowl win, and those who have predicted his demise in the past look awfully foolish.
Mike Sando of The Athletic recently talked to a bunch of coaches and executives around the league, and many had the same assessment of Brady.
A lot talked about how people try and nitpick Brady's game to find weaknesses.
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“You can try to find something,” one exec said. “Brady is like Steph Curry. The first quarter might look like crap, but you’d better have a big lead because when it comes to nut-cutting time, he is going to make it happen.”
“That is what happens when you get so high up there — people pick for little holes,” a defensive coordinator said. “At the end of the day, would you like that guy running your team? Hell, yeah! You’d take him 16 out of 16 weeks.”
Seemingly every year for a longtime now, people around the league have picked the upcoming season as the one where Brady will finally start to decline. It hasn't happened yet, and another defensive coach had an interesting response when asked when it might come.
“I don’t see a drop-off without a catastrophic injury or, like the great pitchers, if he loses his legs,” he said. “I believe he is increasing his fitness. And then he has the best footwork, the best execution of the screen pass, and if you watch the cutups of his fakes, it is like a f—ing magic act. Beyond that, I’m not sure the game has seen a competitor that exceeds him.”
The Patriots will be without some key members of last year's team, like Rob Gronkowski and Trey Flowers, but they also added some new reinforcements. They're heavy favorites to win the AFC East once again, and in all likelihood they'll be competing for another Lombardi Trophy.
