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There Goes Tom Brady, the Best Who Ever Lived
Posted on 2/5/2015 12:42:09 AM
By Kerry Byrne FN In-House Expert
(Ed. Note: Tom Brady Hating runs deep through American football culture and explains much of the joyful glee surrounding his DeflateGate suspension, being appealed June 23. And Brady's historic domination of the NFL explains the source of the animosity, a mind-blowing compendium of unchallenged statistical superiority we outlined below after New England's win over Seattle in Super Bowl XLIX.)
Tom Brady is now the greatest quarterback in NFL history. Prepare your fragile little eggshell mind for a tsunami of Cold, Hard Football Facts that will overwhelm the opposition and prove the obvious.
Water is wet. Snow is cold. Brady is the greatest.
If you're an ESPN analyst like Tim Hasselbeck, clinging to a palm tree of opinion and trying to resist the overwhelming ocean of facts, you must at least admit that the New England Patriots quarterback is, indisputably, the most accomplished quarterback in history.
The debate is no longer Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, which should have been settled long ago. It's now Brady vs. Any Legendary QB.
Boston hometown boy Hasselbeck is the only person left in the world who would take Manning's resume over Brady's, as he stated throughout the season and again this week on sports radio WEEI in Boston.
Back here where we're not tripping on bad acid, the Cold, Hard Football Fact of the matter is that Brady now holds just about every single record in both postseason and Super Bowl history, whether we're talking individual stats or team accomplishments.
He's no slouch in the regular season, either. After 13 years as a starting quarterback, Brady is the winningest quarterback of all time and ranks in the Top 5 of every single major individual stat. He'll likely end his career in the top 3 in every major measure of individual accomplishment, maybe even higher depending on how long he plays. He already holds all the records in the playoffs and in the Super Bowl, and nobody alive is close to catching him.
So no matter how you cut it, stats or team accomplishments, Brady usually ends up on top by one of those meaures, and usually by both.
Perhaps most importantly, Brady consistently comes up huge in the clutch and wins games that appear lost, as he did twice in the 2014 postseason, against both Seattle in the Super Bowl and Baltimore in the divisional round.
The Patriots twice trailed the Ravens by 14 points, but scored 21 second-half points to win 35-31. New England won despite just 14 yards rushing, the fewest ever in a postseason victory. New England also won despite the fact Brady passed the ball 50 times -- usually the sign of defeat. He passed the ball 50 times again in the Super Bowl XLIX win over the Seattle Seahawks, and again with virtually no running game (57 total rush yards).
In one of the most incredible stats in all of sports history, Brady's Patriots are now 4-1 in the playoffs when he passes the ball 50+ times. Every other QB in history has combined to go 3-27 in that situation. Brady can carry a team in the clutch unlike any other QB in history. He's lapped the competition in carrying a team in the clutch.
Super Bowl XLIX was one of his finest hours: the Patriots became the first team in history to overcome a double-digit deficit in the second half of a Super Bowl. Every other team trailing by 10+ in the second half of a Super Bowl had combined to go 0-29 before Sunday.
Brady and the Patriots produced two fourth-quarter touchdown drives. And they did it against the best defense in football, a team that had surrendered just 15.9 points per game all year long – let alone 14 points in crunch time of the biggest game of the year.
More amazing Cold, Hard Football Facts: The Brady Patriots have produced 52 points in six Super Bowl fourth quarters. That's the equivalent of 34.7 PPG – typically against the toughest defenses of the year, and in the biggest moments of the season.
The Patriots have scored an incredible 28 points in the final 3 minutes of those six Super Bowls, including another touchdown against the mighty Seattle defense on Sunday.
We listed every single Brady individual and team record below, in the postseason, in the Super Bowl itself, and then listed where he stacks up in the regular season.
It's a tsunami of stats that offer and obvious conclusion: There goes Tom Brady, the best who ever lived.
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