Tom "Iceman" Brady

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Originally Posted by Defensewins

Give it up whie you are still behind. Your quote above is so wrong in so many ways it would take me days to prove each point wrong, so I will only address the most glaring ones:

1) The players and coaches are all in it for the rings/championships, not the stats you so cling to. Dan Marino would give up half of his good for nothing records/stats for one SB ring and a SB MVP.
2) Your rant about the The Patriots having a great coach and being a great team despite Brady. Fact: the Pats were not a good team when Brady took over for an injured Probowl QB Drew Bledsoe and coach Bellichek in 2001.
Under Bledsoe & Bellichek they were 5-11 in 2000 and started an ugly 0-2 in 2001. I know this better than most on this site because I lived in Boston from 2000-2004. I watched every Redskins and Pats game 2000-2004.
Brady stepped in on a very bad team and took them to a SB WIN in his first year as a starter. So please check your facts before you run off at the mouth and say the Pats are/were a good team despite Brady. The fact is they were not a good team before Brady took over.
3) In all three SB's Brady drove the Pats in last second drives for game winning field goals with very little time on the clock. What makes Brady better than any other QB playing today: He handles the pressure of the big game better then anybody else. Manning and Marino do not handle the pressure of the big playoff games very well. Until last year Manning was terrible in the playoffs. Not so-so or average, he was TERRIBLE. Three and four interception games.
Manning has never one a single champonship at any level of his entire football career. That says it all about his ability to handle the preasure of the big games.

I'd agree with your assesment that Brady is the biggest reason for the Patriots improvement, but a lot of the reasoning for such a sudden improvement was as much about Drew Bledsoe NOT being the Quarterback as it was about Tom Brady becoming the Quarterback.