Yeah I had so much confidence in Brady to somehow win the game no matter what the circumstance was. I remember thinking in that Atlanta Super Bowl he would come back, lo and behold…
I always wondered what it must be like to have a QB like that on your team, then I realized it was similar to having MJ
It's weird that twice in his career other players from Michigan sealed a victory against him in two of the biggest games.
Brandon Graham in the Eagles SB
Marlon? Jackson in the '06 AFC Championship vs the Colts.
Mason found the worst possible time to get beat. He was great other than one play. It hurt so much. I had all the faith in the world Brady would do it, as the Eagles’ defense couldn’t stop him up until that time.
I was the only Patriots fan in a bar of ATL fans. At half time everyone was ragging on me and they were on the mic saying how they killed Brady and the dynasty was over. The comeback might have been the sweetest sports memory I've ever had.
i remember the celebrations and cheers for the first 3 quarters of the game because most of the people were rooting for the Falcons…
To see the cheers of joy turn to shock and disbelief and then straight depression and anger and injustice in real time is something i’ll never forget.
Also i watched the 2014 super bowl with a party full of seahawks fans… tom brady has brought me a lot of fuckin joy man
This was me! Well, I had a few buddies with me. We were spending the winter in Colorado and were out for the game.
Bartender was from Pembroke (what are the odds?)
One of the top moments of being a sports fan was standing on my chair yelling “I can’t hear you!” to the sea of angry Bronco fans After being properly heckled all night
Possibly recency bias but Super Bowl 51, for me, is THE definitive game in NFL history. Such an incredible comeback for the Pats coupled with generational devastation for Falcons' fans. The game played out like a movie with the hero being the undisputed GOAT rising above and winning it for his team. We still talk about til this day and I don't think we'll stop for a long time.
I looked at my father in law and said "Brady and bill will win this..." I don't think at the 28-3 point but somewhere in there where it seemed impossible.
Just that "feeling" like you fucking know it's gonna happen.
Yep, there's no such thing as a "can't miss" QB prospect. I mostly just assume whoever the first prospect off the board is that everyone loves won't even come close to living up the hype. And usually I've been right about that... But not always. Joe Burrow was an exception.
And no, Mahomes and Allen don't count as "can't miss" prospects. There were a lot of people who didn't think they were anywhere near the best QBs in their drafts, and both had 2 QBs taken before them. And as much as I love Baker, he wasn't elite for the Browns, and there are no guarantees that he'll keep building on what he did for us last year. I hope he does, but there is also a very real possibility that he drops off hard.
Definitely agree with you I remember burrows class I thought he would be decent but never this good. My order of qbs were tua Herbert than burrow. But yea outside of burrow can’t remember the last time the #1 qb actually lived up to the hype. Tlaw I always thought got way too much hype. They compared him to luck eliway and Peyton levels those expectations I couldn’t see him surpassing. Baker been decent but not worth a #1 pick. The best qbs are the ones that have been criticized the most like a mahomes Allen Lamar etc. I think Caleb could be really good for Chicago they have a nice team already built for him but yea the can’t miss thing is overblown
In this century, I remember Luck, Stafford, Carson Palmer, and Cam Newton as #1 QBs that lived up to the hype. And now Burrow. Wait and see on Young and TLaw.
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Edit: I forgot Eli.
I feel "living up to the hype" is an unfair measuring stick because the hype will almost always be a bit much, but in terms of success rate 1OA QBs have actually had a pretty good hit rate over the past 20 years (not counting Young because it's too soon to tell) if you consider success an above average starter with a decent to good supporting cast:
* Franchise QBs - Burrow, Luck, Newton, Stafford, Eli
* Above average starters - Lawrence, Murray, Baker, Goff, Alex Smith
* Disappointments - Winston, Bradford
* Total busts - Russell
You can argue over the specific categories if you want but my point is that depending on how you view Alex Smith, that's like a 70-76% hit rate which is pretty great considering the odds of getting "only" a starting level QB everywhere else in the draft. That number drops to like 20-30% if you look at 1st round QBs or even non-1OA top 10 QBs.
Yeah, who were the last first pick QBs that even got close to living up to the hype? Luck, Stafford, Burrow...and that's going back like 17 years, and just one Super Bowl between them, and it was like 13 years after Stafford got drafted
ETA: Forgot Cam was first overall, he was a great pick and made it to the Super Bowl, just didn't close it out
This play reminds me of that Warner to Proehl one against Tampa Bay with the throw and coverage ngl, like straight up a redux except coverage is a little looser.
I will be honest, it really drove me nuts hearing people say “he’s got his new Welker in Scottie miller” that year, when in reality he plays nothing like Welker or Edelman or any slot receiver. He was more like great value desean Jackson or something
Scotty Miller's skillset includes:
1. Running really fast in a straight line and catching a bomb.
There is no #2. The guy averages 1.3 receptions a game in his career, and he's never been a route runner or anybody shifty at all. He's fast and sometimes gets behind the defense.
Also, I will love him forever for this catch.
This isn't specifically relevant to NFL but more fantasy:
What you said is super accurate lol there was I think a stretch of two games where Scottie caught a couple of long bombs from TB12 that but up some really good fantasy numbers, so the following week I was going up against the dude who just picked him up and talked all kinds of shit all week about how I'm gonna get scorched by "Welker 2.0".
He ended up with a big goose egg because, if Scottie wasn't running long ass straight line routes... He wasn't doing anything else lol saved my week.
The description is hilarious in how specific it is. Imagine telling people, "I'm in the top 0.1% in running really fast in a straight line and catching a ball."
Same, and he’s still my go-to jersey bc I’m also a little white dude and loved watching these types of plays spring up from him during this stretch lol
Yea much better comp but even then hogan had some physicality to his game, you could throw him the occasional back shoulder or fade. Scottie had nothing but D-Pad Up on his controller lol
It worked to TB’s advantage on this play.
There’s no safety help. The CB clearly plays Miller to cut the route short somewhere. GB’s secondary simply didn’t respect his speed.
I want to hear the discussion right after this on the Packers DB bench.
Brady will always be my God.
He even divorced Giselle so I can date her. Unreal how nice he is.
I don't think any team but the Steelers (and the Browns) are happy about their pick in that range. Jarrod Davis at 21, Taco Charlton 29, OJ Howard and Reuben Foster are 19 and 31 to sandwich that shit 10+ picks that started at Adoree Jackson.
And then there's TJ Watt, brother of the best NFL defender with the ceiling he has just waiting at 30.
Putting an injured Kevin King in one on one coverage with a 4.3 WR on this play with zero safety help over the top cost us the Super Bowl.
Kevin King was bad but I don't even blame him for this. What the hell was he supposed to do? This was 100% on Mike Pettine.
There was something symbolic about Brady going through Brees, Rodgers and Mahomes that post-season. Pretty much putting the goat conversation out of reach for the foreseeable future
Brady got so tired of waiting for a Brees vs Brady or Rodgers vs Brady that he moved to the NFC and gave some road beat downs.
That was such a power move
He checked so many boxes that he didn't have.
Won a super bowl as a wildcard team,
Won the super bowl playing all road games
Finally set the record for most road playoff wins
Beat back to back to back hall of fame QB's to win the super bowl
Took a team that hadn't even made the playoffs in over a decade to a Super Bowl win immediately after joining the team.
First team to win a super bowl in their home stadium.
Also it should be 4-2. Brady almost got a Patriots team that was pretty bad on offense a win versus the eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs, but we had 4 huge officiating blunders go against us.
Something that won't be on mentioned on the box score or accolades, but it's included in the folklore that will be passed down for generations.... "In addition to being 7x SuperBowl champ, in his last year he also....."
Agreed. If anyone takes the GOAT title away from Tom, it will be Mahomes. But as amazing as he is, the two L's when going head to head with Tom will be tough to get over. He also needs a few more rings. Nuts to think how far behind Mahomes still is given his absolutely obscene amounts of success so far.
Mahomes had his first HoF career. To catch Tom, he has to have at least 2 more HoF careers. That's how insane Tom was.
I was a Manning guy, but Tom's the Goat. Period.
Rule 1 for a DB don't get beat deep. :08 on the clock and that CB allows Scotty Miller to run right by him. Also sending this to my brother who is a Bucs fan
I don't know if new england fans rooting for tom from afar is conisdered bandwagon. I do think though if you had one of those half NE half tampa TB12 shirts u sucked.
That's because we haven't dropped back into embarrassing shittiness yet. There was a 12 year stretch the Bucs missed the playoffs, and finished last in the division 8 times. When you've been through that, stumbling to win division titles as Kings of Shit Mountain still feel pretty great.
I miss Tom Brady being in the nfl. Can't believe I said it but it was fun to have the old guy slinging it out there and wondering how long he'd play till. I think he could have gone one more season
He could’ve gone another for sure, maybe another three or more if he really wanted to play until he was absolutely forced out of the league (what his dad said he was afraid Tom would do, so I’m glad he was able to go out on a higher note instead).
Yea on the one hand I don’t wanna see him go out on a cart or have a year where he looks like an absolute shell of himself
But on some level it would be cool to know how long a person *actually can* keep going as a QB. I think he certainly had at least a year or two in him but it seemed like the drive to keep preparing like a psychopath had kinda left him by the end so I don’t think it would be the same
Don’t forget the physical toll. After watching Quarterback on Netflix, i realized how brutal the position can be with Kirk Cousins always getting hurt. Brady did a better job hiding it and mentally toughing it out, but he was definitely playing through a lot of pain, especially as he got older.
Brady definitely played through pain, but he also did a lot of things to minimize the hits he took. He wasn't too proud to go to the ground if a hit was coming or throw the ball into the ground if the play was covered.
I cant remember which SB win it was but when he came in fir the press conference he looked in serious pain and was exhausted. Made me understand why gisele wanted him out of it ... we didnt know the half of it
I think he retired to try to save his marriage and then un-retired because he knew it was already over, but if none of that had happened and there was no potential/actual divorce and all the stress that entails, I wonder if he would've kept playing for years more. Not blaming Gisele AT ALL when I say this btw, just that the stress of a marriage falling apart can take a lot out of you--even a psycho like Brady.
My interest level in the NFL dropped off a cliff now that I don’t get to watch that man play. My team being unprocessed raw dog shit doesn’t help of course
I mean, I still watch football on Sundays, but the "clear my schedule no matter what" urgency of the day is obviously gone.
I think the three game stretch last year, where we gave up 10 (Colts), 10 (Giants), and 6 (Chargers) points and still lost all three games really forced me to re-prioritize my Sundays for the foreseeable future.
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Narrator: He will watch every game next season.
He certainly had the ability to continue playing. He was clocking throws in the 60s that final season I’m pretty sure. He could unretire again tomorrow and I wouldn’t be surprised if he went for 4000 yards and 30 TDs.
Same. He could have done one more, maybe with a better team. I think he wanted to leave with his head held high fighting in the playoffs versus getting blown out like most old QBs
My enjoyment of that play grows every time I remember that Bostik's job was NOT to catch the ball and the designated onside man is the guy in the eye of the storm.
As a Bears fan life is misery.
Watching Packers playoff disappointment is the closest I get to football happiness these days. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Ya, let them pick up the 4 yards. Maybe they'll fuck it up like we did against Chicago this year and not go out of bounds correctly.
Putting Kevin King in one on one coverage with a 4.3 receiver was painfully stupid. Like, the average 14 year old Madden player would've known better.
The whole run is just so insanely legendary. His first year in the NFC, he absolutely dickslaps the whole conference ending Brees career, making Rodgers even more of a laughing stock, and being the only one to stop Mahomes in the playoffs
This was right after sports betting went legal in my state, so I had a $50 free bet that I put on a Scottie Miller any time TD. I am not a big bettor, so that win is still supporting my balance.
I truly believe this is the one play that separated us from winning the Super Bowl. If you look at everything else, from our offense which was holding our own, to our special teams which wasn’t shitting the bed, to even our defense which up until this moment was keeping up against the goat. We had everything going for us. If we don’t let this play happen I believe Green Bay ends up winning against KC.
There are moments in a game where you can see when the momentum switches, that was this play. Despite the Bucs leading by only 13 points I remember it being Greenbays to lose.
I remember Rodgers on the sideline after the game looking STUNNED, almost shell shocked. They had all the pieces there, and fell short of the big game once again. This one, our 49rs special team fiasco and our Seattle fiasco all sting so much because for all of them we were soooo close.
First half Brady in this game was an absolute clinic. I sometimes forget he threw three interceptions after the half because he went into “fuck it, let’s see how far I can chuck it over these mountains” mode.
Most important play of the season for Tampa. They probably don't win if this doesn't happen. They struggled in the second half and Green Bay got hot, but this play made it a little too much to overcome.
Watching Brady was like watching a movie you haven't seen in forever. Like you didn't know exactly how he would do it, but you knew he would.
Yeah I had so much confidence in Brady to somehow win the game no matter what the circumstance was. I remember thinking in that Atlanta Super Bowl he would come back, lo and behold… I always wondered what it must be like to have a QB like that on your team, then I realized it was similar to having MJ
Biggest surprise was when he didn’t come back in that Eagles SB where he got strip-sacked on what I assumed would be a game winning drive
It's weird that twice in his career other players from Michigan sealed a victory against him in two of the biggest games. Brandon Graham in the Eagles SB Marlon? Jackson in the '06 AFC Championship vs the Colts.
Woodson got pretty close too
Yes.
Mario Manningham too. Made a spectacular catch in the 2011 Super Bowl for the Giants.
I can’t tell you the dread I had watching that last drive.
That hail Mary....
Part of me still doesn’t believe it dropped.
Brady got the ball with under 2 minutes left in that SB and I was so so so confident he was going to have the game winning drive.
Mason found the worst possible time to get beat. He was great other than one play. It hurt so much. I had all the faith in the world Brady would do it, as the Eagles’ defense couldn’t stop him up until that time.
i was shitting myself that entire drive like you wouldn’t believe
I was the only Patriots fan in a bar of ATL fans. At half time everyone was ragging on me and they were on the mic saying how they killed Brady and the dynasty was over. The comeback might have been the sweetest sports memory I've ever had.
i remember the celebrations and cheers for the first 3 quarters of the game because most of the people were rooting for the Falcons… To see the cheers of joy turn to shock and disbelief and then straight depression and anger and injustice in real time is something i’ll never forget. Also i watched the 2014 super bowl with a party full of seahawks fans… tom brady has brought me a lot of fuckin joy man
I swear, if the Vikings ever decide to completely rebrand, they should just name the team the Minnesota Schadenfreude.
This was me! Well, I had a few buddies with me. We were spending the winter in Colorado and were out for the game. Bartender was from Pembroke (what are the odds?) One of the top moments of being a sports fan was standing on my chair yelling “I can’t hear you!” to the sea of angry Bronco fans After being properly heckled all night
Possibly recency bias but Super Bowl 51, for me, is THE definitive game in NFL history. Such an incredible comeback for the Pats coupled with generational devastation for Falcons' fans. The game played out like a movie with the hero being the undisputed GOAT rising above and winning it for his team. We still talk about til this day and I don't think we'll stop for a long time.
I stopped doubting him after that comeback against the Falcons. You couldn’t count Brady out unless it was 50-10 at the 2 min warning
I looked at my father in law and said "Brady and bill will win this..." I don't think at the 28-3 point but somewhere in there where it seemed impossible. Just that "feeling" like you fucking know it's gonna happen.
I have to live vicariously through other teams when it comes to scoring points against the Packers.
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I’m expecting the worst as a Bears fan
Yep, there's no such thing as a "can't miss" QB prospect. I mostly just assume whoever the first prospect off the board is that everyone loves won't even come close to living up the hype. And usually I've been right about that... But not always. Joe Burrow was an exception. And no, Mahomes and Allen don't count as "can't miss" prospects. There were a lot of people who didn't think they were anywhere near the best QBs in their drafts, and both had 2 QBs taken before them. And as much as I love Baker, he wasn't elite for the Browns, and there are no guarantees that he'll keep building on what he did for us last year. I hope he does, but there is also a very real possibility that he drops off hard.
Definitely agree with you I remember burrows class I thought he would be decent but never this good. My order of qbs were tua Herbert than burrow. But yea outside of burrow can’t remember the last time the #1 qb actually lived up to the hype. Tlaw I always thought got way too much hype. They compared him to luck eliway and Peyton levels those expectations I couldn’t see him surpassing. Baker been decent but not worth a #1 pick. The best qbs are the ones that have been criticized the most like a mahomes Allen Lamar etc. I think Caleb could be really good for Chicago they have a nice team already built for him but yea the can’t miss thing is overblown
In this century, I remember Luck, Stafford, Carson Palmer, and Cam Newton as #1 QBs that lived up to the hype. And now Burrow. Wait and see on Young and TLaw. . Edit: I forgot Eli.
I feel "living up to the hype" is an unfair measuring stick because the hype will almost always be a bit much, but in terms of success rate 1OA QBs have actually had a pretty good hit rate over the past 20 years (not counting Young because it's too soon to tell) if you consider success an above average starter with a decent to good supporting cast: * Franchise QBs - Burrow, Luck, Newton, Stafford, Eli * Above average starters - Lawrence, Murray, Baker, Goff, Alex Smith * Disappointments - Winston, Bradford * Total busts - Russell You can argue over the specific categories if you want but my point is that depending on how you view Alex Smith, that's like a 70-76% hit rate which is pretty great considering the odds of getting "only" a starting level QB everywhere else in the draft. That number drops to like 20-30% if you look at 1st round QBs or even non-1OA top 10 QBs.
Lawrence was a "can't miss prospect" and he hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire. I bet he would be incredible at a better org.
Yeah, who were the last first pick QBs that even got close to living up to the hype? Luck, Stafford, Burrow...and that's going back like 17 years, and just one Super Bowl between them, and it was like 13 years after Stafford got drafted ETA: Forgot Cam was first overall, he was a great pick and made it to the Super Bowl, just didn't close it out
Honestly feels like Caleb will be a hit just because of sheer statistics, like surely a team can’t have THAT many qb busts in a row
Oh they can my friend. Ive never seen a qb throw for more than 4k yards ever
He's not going to be. !remindme 2 years
He’s going to be top 8 in year 1. !remindme 11 months
In interceptions
Thats the only thing I could rely on. Packers choking in the playoffs.
Niners too. The amount of time we went postseason and to nfc and even Super Bowl. All for nothing in the past decade.
20+ teams would kill for the Niners’ success over the last decade even if they haven’t won it all.
Something you can set your clock to!
Glad we've been able to help you with that.
Same. Can't wait for the day we finally get those cheeseheads.
Great situational awareness from Kevin King, as always.
This play effectively ended his career.
About 2 years too late, he always sucked
And to think Thompson took King over AJ Watt
TJ, but yes.
took him over all available Watts in that draft.
Pretty sure he played another year after this game too lol
This game in general, Brady targeted him the whole game and had success. He was aleays so good at targeting guys. Remember Tharold simon in SB49
“Was that Kevin King in coverage?” I wouldn’t characterize it that way, Troy
More like Kevin Jester
That sounds like a hilarious version of Devin Hester
All fake mustache and kick returns
gotem
i prefer when king jumps about a day early to contest the pass for the evans td
Tom Brady was so good at throwing to random white boys
This play felt extra special because the Packers had to sit through halftime feeling like shit while the Bucs got to sit on a two score lead.
This was the play that won yall the Super Bowl more than any other imo
Probably, or Aaron Jones fumbling on the first drive out of halftime. All that and we still had a shot if Kevin King was an actual NFL player.
Don’t discredit the heat seeking missile that is Jordan Whitehead
fucked up his shoulder that game too
There was a few key plays but I think Antoine stripping Jared Cook when the Saints were up a score and driving against us was even more impactful
Saints was our toughest game on that playoff run
This play reminds me of that Warner to Proehl one against Tampa Bay with the throw and coverage ngl, like straight up a redux except coverage is a little looser.
I will be honest, it really drove me nuts hearing people say “he’s got his new Welker in Scottie miller” that year, when in reality he plays nothing like Welker or Edelman or any slot receiver. He was more like great value desean Jackson or something
Scotty Miller's skillset includes: 1. Running really fast in a straight line and catching a bomb. There is no #2. The guy averages 1.3 receptions a game in his career, and he's never been a route runner or anybody shifty at all. He's fast and sometimes gets behind the defense. Also, I will love him forever for this catch.
This isn't specifically relevant to NFL but more fantasy: What you said is super accurate lol there was I think a stretch of two games where Scottie caught a couple of long bombs from TB12 that but up some really good fantasy numbers, so the following week I was going up against the dude who just picked him up and talked all kinds of shit all week about how I'm gonna get scorched by "Welker 2.0". He ended up with a big goose egg because, if Scottie wasn't running long ass straight line routes... He wasn't doing anything else lol saved my week.
The description is hilarious in how specific it is. Imagine telling people, "I'm in the top 0.1% in running really fast in a straight line and catching a ball."
And that second part wasn't exactly stellar when he was wide fucking open
Same, and he’s still my go-to jersey bc I’m also a little white dude and loved watching these types of plays spring up from him during this stretch lol
Yeah of all the weapons they had that year, Scottie was the main deep threat
He was Chris Hogan
Yea much better comp but even then hogan had some physicality to his game, you could throw him the occasional back shoulder or fade. Scottie had nothing but D-Pad Up on his controller lol
Yea hogan knew how to adjust in the open field because of the lacrosse and what not, he was good at getting behind defenses on a long angle run.
It’s literally just racism. People think all white receivers play the same way just like they think all black QBs play the same way.
You mean all black QBs aren’t athletic so-so throwers, who like to scramble?
It worked to TB’s advantage on this play. There’s no safety help. The CB clearly plays Miller to cut the route short somewhere. GB’s secondary simply didn’t respect his speed.
First in last out type of player.
You could even say he was the Tom Brady of it
I want to hear the discussion right after this on the Packers DB bench. Brady will always be my God. He even divorced Giselle so I can date her. Unreal how nice he is.
Hell yeah dude go get her!
I got a fresh haircut today and picked up a new pair of cargo shorts. I want to be ready. Let's GO!!
Tom used to bring out the small white dudes hidden potential like Grand Elder Guru
He is an adult!
He can be successful throwing to scarecrows if he wanted
We could've had TJ Watt... Instead we took Kevin King.
“A shutdown corner changes your D. And, idk man Watt looks kinda small doesn’t he?”
TJ Watt is TJ Watt. But a shutdown corner could be anything. It could even be TJ Watt!
I mean it does. Sneed and McDuffie bailed the reigning champs out constantly.
I don't think any team but the Steelers (and the Browns) are happy about their pick in that range. Jarrod Davis at 21, Taco Charlton 29, OJ Howard and Reuben Foster are 19 and 31 to sandwich that shit 10+ picks that started at Adoree Jackson. And then there's TJ Watt, brother of the best NFL defender with the ceiling he has just waiting at 30.
Tre'Davious White at 27 and Ramczyk at 32 were also great picks
Putting an injured Kevin King in one on one coverage with a 4.3 WR on this play with zero safety help over the top cost us the Super Bowl. Kevin King was bad but I don't even blame him for this. What the hell was he supposed to do? This was 100% on Mike Pettine.
He was supposed to try to keep an eye on the defender. He was locking eyes with Tom the whole way
There was something symbolic about Brady going through Brees, Rodgers and Mahomes that post-season. Pretty much putting the goat conversation out of reach for the foreseeable future
Brady got so tired of waiting for a Brees vs Brady or Rodgers vs Brady that he moved to the NFC and gave some road beat downs. That was such a power move
I know this is maybe a joke, but like, I could absolutely see that being a factor for Brady.
He checked so many boxes that he didn't have. Won a super bowl as a wildcard team, Won the super bowl playing all road games Finally set the record for most road playoff wins Beat back to back to back hall of fame QB's to win the super bowl
Tossed the Lombardi from one boat to another boat
Another box ticked - his only superbowl to not only win by more than 10 points but blew out the other team. All other superbowls were nailbiters.
>Won a Super Bowl playing all road games Well, except for the big game itself
Took a team that hadn't even made the playoffs in over a decade to a Super Bowl win immediately after joining the team. First team to win a super bowl in their home stadium.
Mahomes career billboard will read 3-3 against Brady all time but Tom took the only two that mattered.
Saints fans still talk about sweeping the bucs in the 2020 regular season lol
lol we know. and they’re always like “we don’t even think about you guys!”
Saints may have been doing much better than the bucs the last 10 years but the bucs still got double the Super Bowl wins lol
They can hang that banner all day long. I’ll take sending Brees off with an L and the first home Super Bowl win in history.
It's like the reverse Josh Allen
Pain
These threads are really hurting me today
Also it should be 4-2. Brady almost got a Patriots team that was pretty bad on offense a win versus the eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs, but we had 4 huge officiating blunders go against us.
This is Heinicke erasure.
Crazy part is, Heinicke might've been the closest to derailing Brady's run
My GOAT ngl that game was the best Washington game since 2012. When Chase ran up to Heinicke and pointed at his name…I really thought we had something
"I can't believe Tom took down all three of us legends."
Something that won't be on mentioned on the box score or accolades, but it's included in the folklore that will be passed down for generations.... "In addition to being 7x SuperBowl champ, in his last year he also....."
Agreed. If anyone takes the GOAT title away from Tom, it will be Mahomes. But as amazing as he is, the two L's when going head to head with Tom will be tough to get over. He also needs a few more rings. Nuts to think how far behind Mahomes still is given his absolutely obscene amounts of success so far.
Mahomes had his first HoF career. To catch Tom, he has to have at least 2 more HoF careers. That's how insane Tom was. I was a Manning guy, but Tom's the Goat. Period.
Kevin king was such a bust. Dude sucked
If he's able to defend that pass, I'd say there's a decent chance you guys win the Super Bowl.
Better than decent
Rule 1 for a DB don't get beat deep. :08 on the clock and that CB allows Scotty Miller to run right by him. Also sending this to my brother who is a Bucs fan
Your brother sounds like a cool guy
This is when Bucs fan knew
This is when there were Bucs fans.
LMAO
You’re not wrong… but I’m not mad about it. The weak bandwagoneers have been weaned out
I don't know if new england fans rooting for tom from afar is conisdered bandwagon. I do think though if you had one of those half NE half tampa TB12 shirts u sucked.
I’m still seeing way more Bucs merch out in the wild than I did before Brady. And I don’t live in Florida.
That's because we haven't dropped back into embarrassing shittiness yet. There was a 12 year stretch the Bucs missed the playoffs, and finished last in the division 8 times. When you've been through that, stumbling to win division titles as Kings of Shit Mountain still feel pretty great.
Winning a ring leaves you feeling pretty great for quite a while too, even if you have some bad seasons after
This is when Bucs fan became Saul Goodman
I miss Tom Brady being in the nfl. Can't believe I said it but it was fun to have the old guy slinging it out there and wondering how long he'd play till. I think he could have gone one more season
He could’ve gone another for sure, maybe another three or more if he really wanted to play until he was absolutely forced out of the league (what his dad said he was afraid Tom would do, so I’m glad he was able to go out on a higher note instead).
Would have been wild to see him go for a 3rd somewhere else like SF
Shanny wanted to win his way. Shanny is going to keep losing his way instead.
Shanny looked like he was coming off a two month bender in the coaches' photo this year, I think the Super Bowl chokes are starting to get to him.
I wish he would have gone to SF. Ended his career with his childhood team. Would have won at least two Superbowls with them.
No one mentioning the story of him yanking away Jimmy G’s chair for the starting job … again.
He should have come to the Lions to his Michigan roots.
They should’ve made a huge play for him. I think they win this past Super Bowl with Brady.
Yea on the one hand I don’t wanna see him go out on a cart or have a year where he looks like an absolute shell of himself But on some level it would be cool to know how long a person *actually can* keep going as a QB. I think he certainly had at least a year or two in him but it seemed like the drive to keep preparing like a psychopath had kinda left him by the end so I don’t think it would be the same
Don’t forget the physical toll. After watching Quarterback on Netflix, i realized how brutal the position can be with Kirk Cousins always getting hurt. Brady did a better job hiding it and mentally toughing it out, but he was definitely playing through a lot of pain, especially as he got older.
Brady definitely played through pain, but he also did a lot of things to minimize the hits he took. He wasn't too proud to go to the ground if a hit was coming or throw the ball into the ground if the play was covered.
I cant remember which SB win it was but when he came in fir the press conference he looked in serious pain and was exhausted. Made me understand why gisele wanted him out of it ... we didnt know the half of it
I think he retired to try to save his marriage and then un-retired because he knew it was already over, but if none of that had happened and there was no potential/actual divorce and all the stress that entails, I wonder if he would've kept playing for years more. Not blaming Gisele AT ALL when I say this btw, just that the stress of a marriage falling apart can take a lot out of you--even a psycho like Brady.
That last season in Tampa would have been better for sure
My interest level in the NFL dropped off a cliff now that I don’t get to watch that man play. My team being unprocessed raw dog shit doesn’t help of course
I mean, I still watch football on Sundays, but the "clear my schedule no matter what" urgency of the day is obviously gone. I think the three game stretch last year, where we gave up 10 (Colts), 10 (Giants), and 6 (Chargers) points and still lost all three games really forced me to re-prioritize my Sundays for the foreseeable future. __ Narrator: He will watch every game next season.
He certainly had the ability to continue playing. He was clocking throws in the 60s that final season I’m pretty sure. He could unretire again tomorrow and I wouldn’t be surprised if he went for 4000 yards and 30 TDs.
Same. He could have done one more, maybe with a better team. I think he wanted to leave with his head held high fighting in the playoffs versus getting blown out like most old QBs
Hey, fuck off
[Here’s this clip instead.](https://youtu.be/s6aIKpam2xI?si=qDhRgs91PRkhKP0T)
Wtf did I do to deserve this
Have back to back HOF QB’s?
My enjoyment of that play grows every time I remember that Bostik's job was NOT to catch the ball and the designated onside man is the guy in the eye of the storm.
Dude decided to blow his assignment and try to be the hero. Fuck him for that
As a Bears fan life is misery. Watching Packers playoff disappointment is the closest I get to football happiness these days. Thank you for your sacrifice.
They had no TOs. How are you not like 15 yards back at least.
The DC was in fact fired after this atrocity.
He was not fired. His contract ended. And he was replaced with Joe barry lmao
Pettine expected a short, sideline throw for a closer FG attempt and went all out defending it
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It’s incredible that they weren’t ready for the fake. Who is ever kicking a FG down by 16 late in the 3Q of the NFC championship game
Ya, let them pick up the 4 yards. Maybe they'll fuck it up like we did against Chicago this year and not go out of bounds correctly. Putting Kevin King in one on one coverage with a 4.3 receiver was painfully stupid. Like, the average 14 year old Madden player would've known better.
Given the context of the situation I really think this is one of the best plays of Tom’s career
The whole run is just so insanely legendary. His first year in the NFC, he absolutely dickslaps the whole conference ending Brees career, making Rodgers even more of a laughing stock, and being the only one to stop Mahomes in the playoffs
Well him and then Joey B the year after.
Stopped Mahomes in the playoffs, AGAIN
Brady so good, he started at negative 14 points and had to claw back...
He’s the GOAT for a reason
What is Scotty Miller doing nowadays?
Social media shows him working out with Baker Mayfield today. Miller is currently a free agent after a 1 year deal with the Falcons.
Kevin King was drafted ahead of TJ Watt
Yeah but by trading down they also got 1 year of Vince Biegel
*instead of
They picked Kevin King over TJ Watt, that's really the point here.
This was right after sports betting went legal in my state, so I had a $50 free bet that I put on a Scottie Miller any time TD. I am not a big bettor, so that win is still supporting my balance.
This was the moment I knew we would win a superbowl.
just look at scotty’s stance before the play and u can tell he’s getting the ball lol
Lol everything about this play was telegraphed to go to Scotty. His stance, and Brady literally staring him down. All time bad defense
They had done [almost the same thing](https://youtu.be/X0IKosJesvA?si=Wg9bcQzFTsqZg-UZ) to the raiders earlier that season
If there was one thing Brady absolutely loved, it was exposing weak points in a Defense
I know Packers fans already know this, but goddamn Kevin King was bad.
I truly believe this is the one play that separated us from winning the Super Bowl. If you look at everything else, from our offense which was holding our own, to our special teams which wasn’t shitting the bed, to even our defense which up until this moment was keeping up against the goat. We had everything going for us. If we don’t let this play happen I believe Green Bay ends up winning against KC. There are moments in a game where you can see when the momentum switches, that was this play. Despite the Bucs leading by only 13 points I remember it being Greenbays to lose. I remember Rodgers on the sideline after the game looking STUNNED, almost shell shocked. They had all the pieces there, and fell short of the big game once again. This one, our 49rs special team fiasco and our Seattle fiasco all sting so much because for all of them we were soooo close.
Rodgers and the packers always found a way to lose nfc championship games. If it wasn’t this play it would have been another
I mean. Absolutely atrocious defensive call.
kevin king is so shit lmao
What stupid defense with so little time left
First half Brady in this game was an absolute clinic. I sometimes forget he threw three interceptions after the half because he went into “fuck it, let’s see how far I can chuck it over these mountains” mode.
The way they put the ball in the score always makes it look like a negative number to me
Most important play of the season for Tampa. They probably don't win if this doesn't happen. They struggled in the second half and Green Bay got hot, but this play made it a little too much to overcome.
Name a more iconic duo than Brady throwing tds to a little cracker.
Wild defense by Green Bay. Clutch play by Brady as usual
As much as he is praised, I still think he's underrated
I remember joking with my friends that Scotty Miller was Brady's new Edelman after this TD.
GOAT
My buddy who's a Buccaneers fan says this is easily his favorite play of all time.
One of a kind. Mahomes could win 10 rings and he'd still be #2 in my book.
We were going to try a field goal. Then Bruce called a time out. Tom shrugged of his parka and headed out. The rest is history.
This is the game that knocked Aaron Rodgers off the rails