A thread for Brady media

Seels

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Apologies ahead of time as it's late and you guys are way more clever than me with titles. But I wanted to start a thread we could have some Brady articles and videos since it's official now. Here's a couple that I've read over the last few hours
Kevin Clarke at the Ringer (and there are a few others there): https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2022/2/1/22912955/tom-brady-legacy-retirement
Title speaks for itself at 538: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tom-brady-retires-with-all-the-records/
One that I read from The Atlantic a few days ago: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/tom-brady-retiring-immortal-or-both/621417/
A lengthy NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/01/sports/tom-brady-retires (or several, I guess)

A reddit tribute video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Patriots/comments/shzmro/rpatriots_tribute_to_tom_brady_goat_of_goats/


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ur2V3fkIkY
 

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Ringer piece on (one of) Brady’s super powers that made him so good: his ability to get through all his reads in a given dropback:
But what made Brady special was his uncanny ability to adjust in an instant. While Manning rarely had to go through a progression, Brady did it as well as it could be done. Most starting quarterbacks can get to their second or third read on a play—the good ones, anyway—but it’s not something that happens very often. There just isn’t enough time in the pocket. But Brady was so good at buying time and quickly diagnosing whether a receiver was open (which is harder than it sounds) that all eligible targets had a chance to catch the ball on any given play.

It may not sound all that rare, but back when Brady was first starting to cement himself as a truly elite quarterback, that was not how passing games operated. Former Pats receiver Donte’ Stallworth quickly learned that Brady was not like other quarterbacks during his first training camp with the team in 2007. Stallworth told The Ringer’s Kevin Clark in 2017 that New England was practicing a play that had Stallworth as a last-resort option. The veteran receiver jogged his way through the play and was caught off guard when the ball was thrown his way, leading to an interception. Brady was not pleased with his new receiver, but it was a learning experience for Stallworth, as Clark writes:
Josh McDaniels, the team’s young offensive coordinator, found Stallworth on the sideline, looked him in the eye, and said, “Big guy, I know you’ve played in different offenses, but there will be no dead routes in this offense. Everything is live. You have to stay alive because 12 is going to get you the ball if you’re open even a little bit.”
Everything is live. There isn’t a better way to sum up what made Brady unique.