And Bill was in fact cheating by taping practices. That is as bad as cheating can get. That is like looking at the deck before it gets dealt each hand then pretending it was a good read.
Bill's post Spygate record in the playoffs is mediocre. Even after going 3-0 this year. He went from incredible to not incredible all the while Brady started playing significantly better.
Shooting from the hip and not doing the math, his QB rating is about 87 the first 6 years. And about 105 each year on average since.
No it doesn't. Great players go to the Hall. Or at least usually. Great teams win championships. Are you going to tell me the Dolphins won a SuperBowl because Bob Griese completed 6 passes? And Trent Dilfer was elite. Can't forget him. He wasn't really cut after winning the Super Bowl. We imagined it.
It absolutely does, and no, one ring does not a elite QB make. Don't forget Marino and Kelly. Neither of these guys could close the deal, not even once, not even after four consecutive shots at it in Kelly's case. But they lit up the scoreboard and the stats columns their whole career, not unlike Peyton, who did manage to squeak out a single win against a good defense for his one ring (so far; I still hope he turns the mental corner, like Elway did in his final seasons, also in Denver, and tears it up and gets those rings we all feel he deserves). Meanwhile Brady got three opportunities in four years and won them all. With teams of varying "greatness."
And then won another one ten years later.
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If you want to compare apples, you would need to compare the quarterback ratings for all the elites, Brady, Montana, that Steelers guy who took his pants off on screen...when their team, all of whom were varyingly "great," absolutely needed their quarterback to toss a perfect game, in one or more drives. And that doesn't result necessarily nor actually with fantastic SB game stats in most cases, but in those moments in a game when the current drive becomes a bit more important than any other drive in the game so far, a drive that could or will determine the game's outcome, during those drives, Bradshaw et al. reveal their greatness. You show me those quarterback stats, including Brady's whole career, and you tell me he's any more elite than he was in 01. He threw perfect games when his team, of varying "greatness," needed him to, and he did it repeatedly. In this SB he hurled a perfect 9-for-9 when his definitely not great team needed him to, and that's essentially what he did against the Rams in the closing seconds of the 4th quarter, much to John Madden's utter shock. I'm still not sure he ever fully recovered from witnessing such unexpected glory on the gridiron, and being shown to be such a blind nitwit, all at once. Belichick didn't cheat when he decided not to restore Bledsoe to the helm that season after his injury, and he didn't cheat in deciding to let Brady take a shot at the win rather than doing what Madden (and most of the football world) thought best, to take the knee and go into overtime, the conventional thinking being; you managed to tie
the Rams in regulation. That's an accomplishment, take a breather and hope for a good coin toss and try to end it on a score on your first drive.
Maybe the Rams thought that's what was going to happen, and they weren't ready for Brady's rapid fire dink-and-dunks. Maybe. Who knows. But what was Brady's QB rating in that drive ? Maxed out.
What about his 9-for-9 drive against Seattle ? Maxed out. He won this one the same exact way he won the first one
13 years ago. He was elite from day one.
Those two are serious additions for the next two to three years. A new window for getting it done in Indy.
