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because he has been protected for like 250 out of 251 games. The only time was against the Giants in the superbowl and that didn't end well.
Well, metrics show that he hasn't always been kept perfectly clean. Besides, all QBs face pressure. We do know over a decade plus that he has done very well under pressure.
That's not correct. Brady (as often alluded to) played at least one season with an injury fractured OL that was also missing their star OL coach, Dante S. It was 2015. They had an unusual series of injuries that season. 6 different players started at LOT, 4 at ROT, 3 at each guard spot, and 2 at center. A total of 9 players started on the OL that year, and they pulled it off because several played multiple positions, just starting where ever they needed a replacement that week (6 players started at at least 2 and sometimes 3 positions in the course of the season). Out of 16 games they had the original OL in 4 of them, and counting the playoffs, they started up to either 4 or 5 replacements on the line in 11 out of 18 games. They fielded in total 9 different OL combinations.
I live in Patz territory so I knew the tune that was played in the press about that. As long as they stuck to a short, quick passing game and relied on Brady's mastery of that, they were fine--but once they got away from that to longer passes it simply did not work.
That worked for several games but it did catch up with them. Brady had a total of 6 games where he had a qb rating below 80 and threw 7 TDs and 9 Ints in those games. But they kept chugging along.
Where it really caught with them was the Divisional playoff game, where Denver had his number. He end up with 1 TD, 2 INTs, and a qb rating of 74.0.
After that season they fired their new OL coach, brought Dante S in out of retirement, and from then on, out of sheer luck, avoided the number of injuries they had that year.
As I have stressed. just focusing on "under pressure" does not tell you how a qb plays with a subpar and/or injury broken up OL. Under those conditions A LOT more happens that just being "under pressure."...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2019 05:19PM by zn.
