Tom Brady No. 18
September 19th, 2020
New ranking.
As we all saw Sunday, park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring Bucs quarterback Tom Brady had a rusty start with his new team in a new town in a new conference and a new division.
No longer was he opening the season against the likes of the J-E-T-S mess, mess, mess; the bungling Bills or the droopy Dolphins.
Brady was facing a real team for a change on Opening Weekend.
But after this rusty start, Chris Wesseling of NFL.com rated Brady at No. 18 in the NFL in his quarterback rankings,
Brady is 2-5 in his last seven starts. He has chucked a pick-six in three straight games, a streak the likes of which the NFL hasn’t seen since Matt Schaub’s starting career went belly-up in Houston a half-decade ago. What if we take a declining quarterback reliant upon impeccable timing and hand him superior weapons with precious few practice reps to master the nuances of sight adjustments? We end up with a mixed bag which featured a few impressive drives offset by miscommunication, a dash of costly misfires and some shaky pocket movement. Brady’s best throws resulted in pass interference penalties, which is one of the reasons why I cut him more slack after rewatching on Game Pass.
It seems the best Brady and the Bucs’ offense looked last week was on the opening drive. And as former Bucs quarterback and Belicheats offensive assistant Chris Simms said, it was right out of the Patriots playbook.
Yeah, Bucco Bruce Arians, Brady and all those receivers and tight ends may say they are good with Arians’ offense. The eyes don’t lie and last week they told Joe that Brady wasn’t quite smooth with Arians offense.
So design more drive that mimick what Brady ran in New England, especially early tomorrow against the Stinking Panthers.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:03 am
Too high
September 19th, 2020 at 10:06 am
Too low
September 19th, 2020 at 10:10 am
Just right.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:16 am
Everyone is hanging him out to dry. Playing the Saints was like starting with the playoffs. Everyone knows teams that make the playoff, the majority are a higher caliber than the rest of the league. Look at the pats record over the years, all the afc east titles, a large part of that was playing easy games, dophins x 2 , jets x 2, bills x 2. Almost guaranteed 6 wins or 6 easy low stress games. Once Brady has some real adjustment time, a few games, 1 down, he will start playing much better and when we get a team like the Panther’s we should do a ton better than playing the Saints on day 1.
Lets see…..
September 19th, 2020 at 10:17 am
By the time we make the playoffs at the end of this year we will be a markedly better team, receivers will know their reads and what Tom likes.
The Pats always considered September “preseason”.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:23 am
I’m confident things will improve. Well, pretty sure. I hope they will. Please let them.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:23 am
Who cares?
September 19th, 2020 at 10:34 am
Exactly
September 19th, 2020 at 10:35 am
Just WIN…… and….
September 19th, 2020 at 10:39 am
First four comments here are 100% perfect. Thank you all for that.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:45 am
Someone had to do it. Lol.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:45 am
Hard to make the playoffs with the 18th best QB and the 30th best Head Coach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Panthers errrrrrrr I mean,, go bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 19th, 2020 at 10:47 am
The only rankings that mean anything is W-L…..
September 19th, 2020 at 11:03 am
That is after one game. If he plays well tomorrow he will jump up in the rankings.
September 19th, 2020 at 11:55 am
It is so easy for Talking Heads to talk. In fact, we put too much emphasis on what these Talking Heads say. I believe this is going to turn around in a big way. There is too much talent on this team. Let’s face it , its going to take a while to gel.
September 19th, 2020 at 12:28 pm
Realist, if all sentences are over punctuated add overly emphasized, then no sentences are over punctuated and overly emphasized.
September 19th, 2020 at 1:19 pm
Byron Leftwich drags him down 10 spots.
September 19th, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Hey Jeebs, add to that….Arians weight, his bs weight, and the gulf cart weight; so yeah, it’s a lot of weight to overcome.