Posted on 02/06/2017 1:26:47 PM PST by drewh
Tom Brady brought the Patriots back from the dead Sunday night against the Atlanta Falcons, executing the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history to erase a 25-point deficit and win a thriller in overtime.
On Monday's episode of "Undisputed," Skip Bayless said that Brady's performance didn't just cement his legacy as the greatest quarterback to ever live - it placed him ahead of Michael Jordan as the best clutch athlete ever.
"Just for perspective - the first Super Bowl I ever covered was January 18th of 1976. It was Super Bowl 10, the first Dallas-Pittsburgh Super Bowl. All these games since then, I’ve never seen anything like that game. All the great games in other sports I covered, the U.S. upset of
"This was the most amazing game I’ve ever witnessed. Maybe I’m being a little prisoner of the moment, but I don’t think so. It’s starting to sink in. That was the most improbable comeback in all of sports history.
"Where there was no way, because the New England Patriots of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick were all-time bad followed by all-time great. All-time, all-time great."
"And I’m ready to plunge and go this far … for me, I’m the biggest Michael Jordan fan on the planet, but now I have to be objective. I believe that last night, Tom Brady didn’t just eclipse the great Joe Montana within the confines of Super Bowl and NFL. I believe that last night, Tom Brady eclipsed the man, MJ, Michael Jordan, as the greatest clutch player in all of sports history.
"What he pulled off last night was flat-out impossible. Seriously impossible."
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There's an interesting article out there talking about all the other QB's that were drafted before him and where they are today.........
Brady was indeed a discovery of diamonds in a worthless salt mine........
Brady's comeback encompasses more than yesterday's game. It goes way back to his years at the University of Michigan and his measly 199th pick in the 2000 draft.....
No question about that. But you're talking about a dominant single individual on a floor team of 5, not a leader of a team of 22...........big difference.
If Jordan hadn’t retired briefly, the Bulls would have won 8 straight championships. Hearing his father getting gunned down in cold blood had to have shocked him.
“Seattle..Should have run the ball...”
The play call was fine and should have resulted in either a touchdown or they have the ball at the one. The reason Butler was able to pic the play was the QB Wilson, who famously said after the play...”what happened”.
Watch the replay...he put the ball in the worst possible spot ..had he put the ball low and not lead the receiver, they have a TD. Instead he put the ball up for grabs...it was Wilson’s fault, but he never manned up on it.
Jordan wasn’t 40 years old...plus basketball is hardly a contact sport....especially with MJ’s special “no touch mikey” rules...Professional football is terrifyingly violent.
Devontra Freeman blew his block which allowed Ryan to get sacked and fumble. The key play or one of them for the Pats comeback.
Plus Ryan kept rushing plays when the play clock had 15 seconds left to burn, giving Brady extra valuable time to make the comeback. We were screaming at the tv to let it run—why didn’t his coaches do the same?
I have to admit, I didn’t pick up on it in real time.
I was amazed by the sequence where they moved back from the 20 to midfield on penalties and sacks, out of FG range, but I was looking at it from the viewpoint of a Pats fan who had given up on them but thought I’d watch just a bit longer to see if they could make it close.
It was only in retrospect that I realized how cosmically stupid the clock management and play calling of the Falcons was. I guess I assumed during the game that they were trying to be aggressive and run up the score one more TD—but a field goal after some time-wasting running plays would have done that. Not a mistake Belichick would have made if the positions were reversed.
Bad things happen when you panic.
Has the two most humiliating losses in Super Bowl history.
Guess they don't teach blocking at Half-Ass U.
He traveled on almost every play with his palming technique.
Same thing a couple years back in the playoffs against Baltimore, which always plays the patriots tough in post-season. Down by 14 points twice, finally winning. The guy can close. Bigly!
he was a great player...but he was a kind of media creation too. Wayne Gretzky dominated his sport way more than Jordan did. The fact that Brady is doing this at age 40 is astonishing...especially how demanding his sport is.
Tom Brady = Mr. February
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