This. Brady was a game manager "don't fukk up" QB when he first broke in. Son completed 1 TD pass through the whole playoffs when he won that 1st ring. Brady is still great, but gotdamn, folk try so hard to big him up and shyt on Peyton. They're both fukking great. I still roll with Peyton cuz as Reb said, he is an OC. If there's no Belli...he probably gets another ring or 2.
It's like you and @yseJ guys literally did not watch the early Patriots every week. It's either or because there is no way you can honestly believe what you're saying having watched the Pats every week. Tom Brady NEVER had the weapons to put up big numbers early on. He was never a "game manager." He did what made sense. You're sitting here mad at Tom Brady because he had Jermaine Wiggins, Troy Brown and David Patten and was putting up comparable numbers for the most part as Daunte with Moss and co. Peyton with Reggie, Marvin, Edge, Stokley in the slot, the best o-line in football, etc. Gannon in Oakland, Warner in STL, etc....
Here's what he did do: Brady's first season as a a full time starter: He led the NFL in TD passes, was 7th in yards per game (30 behind Peyton), had a better TD to INT ratio than Peyton Manning and had the exact same QB rating as Peyton. Leading receivers: Troy Brown and David Patten. Do you guys think that if Brady was somewhere around the 16th best in stats that somehow when he finally get beasts on offense in like his 8th year in the league...his per game stats would suddenly look so comparable to Peyton's
. He was ALWAYS in the ball park. You usually don't hit up game managers to ask them how to break down a team the way Peyton used to hit up Brady (and vice versa). It's just a horrible and biased argument and lets me know you're judging it off of how Peyton looks on the field and the narratives you hear vs. what actually happens. Peyton Manning does not do anything on the field that Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady don't. Stop running with this "he's the only OC" nonsense when Tom Brady is the only one of the bunch who can say that he literally played without an offensive coordinator before..oh yeah, and he led the NFL in passing yards that season.



at you disputing that.
but imma jump in real quick.


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