Posted on 11/03/2019 3:00:29 AM PST by zeestephen
He was amazingly good, but what stuck out to me was how he willed his teams to win. He made his team mates all better. Was amazed the way he brought his team to comeback in the Sugar Bowl win against Bama his senior year.
I was shocked when he got drafted so low. When he came in because the first string Patriots QB got hurt, I knew he would do well.
When they made their first playoff run, Rush Limbaugh (who used to talk about football a lot) was deriding him as a skinny rookie who would go nowhere.
I tried to call him every two minutes for days to tell him how wrong he was, that Brady would be an excellent and winning NFL QB. Never got in.
Wentz didn’t play in one, as I clearly noted but he does have a Super Bowl ring.
However you are correct on Cam, listening to the media one would think he did win the big game. I remember now the sight of him throwing himself on the ground as the Broncos scored a touchdown.(Yeah, he did!)
He was actually trying to buy a partnership share of a NFL team (I forget which one). When word got out, there was a media-Democrat uproar, and he withdrew.
At one time, Rush was a really good friend of a NFL team owner. I think it was the owner of the San Diego Chargers.
You may not know that the Scouting Combine used to (maybe still does) release a photograph of all the college participants just wearing gym shorts. Brady definitely did not have a NFL body, and, as I recall, a lot of people were mocking him for that photograph.
What they did not know was that Brady was the starting catcher on your baseball team, and he had amazing arm strength and accuracy throwing out guys trying to steal 2nd base. As I recall, pro baseball teams also recruited him after college.
One final story...
One of the ESPN channels shows a lot of historical football film. They have a tape of a Brady-Michigan game in which legendary sports announcer Brent Musburger called Brady “the most underrated quarterback in college football.”
Brent definitely had amazing vision on that call!
Rothlesberger was a late FIRST ROUND pick in 2004, along with Aaron Rodgers. That was in the decade before this current one being studied. Eli Manning went #1 overall and Philip Rivers #4 overall in 2004, making the 2004 first round QB Class one of the best with 5 Super Bowl wins between them.
Drew Brees was a 2nd round pick in 2000 and Tom Brady a 6th round pick in 2000. Brees likely would be been a first round pick if he was taller and Brady only started 6 college games in his senior year at Michigan, a project pick at the time.
Warren Moon wasn’t even drafted. He had to play up in Canada until the NFL could no longer ignore the obvious.
Both Manning and Rothlesberger were first round picks in the 2004 draft, along with Aaron Rodgers (who sat on the bench for 4 years waiting for Favre to move on).. That 2004 first round QB Class is 5-1 in the Super Bowl. Philip Rivers was also a 2004 first round pick. Potential 4 hall of famers from that 2004 first round QB Class.
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