Posted on 11/01/2017 11:23:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Patriots legend thinks he can play until he's 45 without sacrificing body, mind or integrity. But his future is not just in his hands.
It happened all at once, the way it happens to boxers. He had been baited into throwing a pass to the wrong man, and suddenly he stood exposed, with not only the play but nature itself turning against him. His teammates seemed to have disappeared; he was the last man in position to stop the wrong man from running all the way down the field and turning the game into a rout. He tried his best, as he always does, but he was alone against a younger, faster opponent, and when he dove, he missed by a foot rather than by an inch and appeared simply to fall down, in pieces. Even those who root against him might then have pitied him, because it was one of those moments when the essence of sport is revealed to be cruelly and coldly biological: Tom Brady, in the course of throwing a pick-six to Robert Alford of the Falcons in the second quarter of Super Bowl LI, had grown old.
Later, in the fourth quarter, Brady threw another pass over the middle to Alford. It was worse than the pick-six. Brady wasn't tricked; he was forcing the ball into traffic with the game on the line. This time, though, Alford didn't catch it. This time the ball caromed off his fingertips, still in play. It went up, came down, and Brady's intended receiver, Julian Edelman, leaped for it. He grabbed at it, but then so did gravity, and the ball fell toward the ground. But it didn't land on the ground. It landed on a trivet of Alford's splayed legs and Ricardo Allen's outstretched arms, and Edelman got
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He was using some kind of controversial device. Don’t remember name or what it did.
We all get old and slow down but the fact of the matter, Tom Brady never had the speed even when he was 20. He said as much in a interviews way back in the day. I've seen him state it when he was in High School. So, yeah, he is getting older but even if he were 20 years old...he never would have made that play on Robert Alford.
Yes he can. He’s in very good shape to do it.
Whatever Brady accomplishes or not from this point going forward will never detract from his HOF career.
George Blanda played well into his forties, and I would say QBs took more punishment back then too.
George Blanda was cut by John Madden two weeks before his birthday. The question is how many games did he play as QB, and how many did he play as a kicker?
From what I’ve read and seen he’s probably in better shape today than when he was drafted in the sixth round.
ESPN hates Brady.
Sports radio talk in Boston today one of the hosts noted that Tom Brady’s replacement is probably a freshman in college this year.
Tom has only been getting better with age despite what Max Kellerman spouts.
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