Brady playoff performances on decline, what this means

Vs Ravens in 2009 Brady didn’t have welker, throwing to edelman and a double covered moss
Vs Jets: 2TD’s 1in 89 rating…not up to his usual standards but it wasn’t terrible
Vs Ravens: He still had the go ahead TD and drove the team down field to the red zone 5/6 times and the go head TD…Ravens defense is the best in the red zone btw. His int were on great defensive plays by the ravens.
Oh right there was that Broncos game…but that doesn’t count right?

Brady has started to falter in big games as of late. Sure, the Patriots win a ton of games by double-figures, but the close ones tend to be losses if you look at a more recent picture.

This statement I find not entirely true, as the Giants can stretch the field and expose the Pats more than the Pats can do to the Giants, especially with Gronk not healthy.

to win it all on his own. Get BJGE involved and set up some play action. Defense will make the plays and Tom just needs to be cool and calm and do his thang when needed. I would love for him to be the MVP more than anything because then you know we played a great game

Has Brady had some uncharacteristically bad playoff performances since 2007? Yes. He’s also had some good ones, but nothing has (or likely ever will) match the historic run from 2001-2004. We really have to stop looking at that as the norm and realize that it was really a once-in-a-lifetime run.

Conversely, can you take a few mediocre performances against very good defenses and extrapolate out that Brady is declining? I don’t think so. He’s consistently, almost uniformly, played extremely well in every game in his career. His QB skills look sharper now than perhaps ever before. I don’t think anyone can reasonably conclude that he’s declining. We can acknowledge the existence of some sub-par performances without forecasting Brady’s demise as a player.

Brady tossed six TD’s against one of the NFL’s better defenses. You can’t just throw that out the window.

Besides, Brady has never been a guy to put up huge postseason numbers. The only stat that Brady really has accumulated in the postseason is the only one that matters: WINS.

He’s never been stellar in the post-season relative to his in-season performance. What he has been is consistently better than other post-season quarterbacks.

If Brady throws for 210 yds, 1 TD and 1 INT, its a rather lackluster game for him. Conversely, he could throw for roughly 300 yds and 3TDs and 1 INT. But the time at which the TD and the INT occur are critical. What I’ve noticed the past few seasons is when the game is on the line and the Patriots are trying to either take the lead on a final drive or break the tie, he hasn’t been getting the job done as he had in the past. I’ve seen on numerous occasions him completely overthrowing his receivers or throwing a bad pick with an ill-timed bad decision. It happens to everyone and its impossible for a player to always execute flawlessly. But Brady’s time is ticking and I understand no one wants to hear their star QB is having a decline, but it happens.