And even if everything is perfect, that's only enough to give him a chance to succeed. He'll still miss a wide-open touchdown or overthrow a deep ball. He needs Goldilocks conditions just to be in the damn game.
We had an extremely rare chance to go up 3 games against the Pats. Considering that Brady rarely plays poorly for long stretches, we needed that cushion. Instead, we got blown the fukk out and embarrassed on all sides of the ball. I'll give the D a pass, considering the key injuries, but our offense looks atrocious.