now, huh? Where we start? Yeah. Yeah. That's right. You love
it. I know. I mean you saved this for, dude. Number one on
my day. I did I save them for you. Appreciate we, we mapped
it out to make sure
that you were on here
with the number eight quarterback in football. Yes. Tom Brady,
which I guess a lot of people will be mad. I guess course.
I don't know why but holy s***. The guys 45 and he's a top 10
quarterback and football. All right, there's that.
He is the goat, okay. Okay, he's the goat. I've changed my
stance.
People have heard me say and I used to say, I don't know if
he's the greatest quarterback of all time. He is, I can't
deny that anymore. I'm not going to be selfish and
continue to like, bang my head on the wall. And no, no,
you talk about consistent greatness, what he does. All
that. It's special. And I think the thing that's even more
special to me about Brady and what he's doing right now, and
I'm more amazed of is
he is more aggressive and more of a playmaker and
the quarterback position now than maybe he's The last four or
five six years. Even though the going into New England,
you think he's better than he's ever been. I think he's up
there. I think it's very
yes, I do. I know because they ever but I think what we've
seen. Let's just say, you know, over the last
let's say that second run a super bowls with the with
the Patriots and now into this. I think it definitely Rivals his
best days there that last second stretch with the patron,
right? And I think the biggest thing to
me is even when they were Two three out of four, Super Bowls
there at the end, with the Patriots,
you know, he still played a game that at times I thought
was a he's very conservative and he doesn't have to make,
you know, many plays outside the realm of the offense and,
you know, you know, at time to maybe a little too
conservative. Hey make a play, make a throw, you know, hang in
there, a half a second, more push the ball down the field,
you know felt like maybe he was playing
politics of the sport to a degree.
Also, maybe hey, news New Year's with the Patriots. And
hey, Josh, McDaniels, dial up a good play. The next play. Yeah,
and I don't have to be aggressive. I think that was
part of it. But Paul, I mean you you watch him closely like
I do,
you know,
he's now makes more throws and changes the game and more
positive ways from the Bucks than I feel like. Yeah, he ever
did the last few years with the Patriots just because of
hey Bruce Arians the talent around him. I do think Bruce
Arians and Byron. Leftwich, got him to break out of the show to
go. Like stop worrying to be more aggressive. Yeah, stop
worrying if you throw first. Seventy three point four
percent. Let's throw 466
percent. Yeah and just be more dangerous of an offense. Yeah.
And have teams scared and you're making more big plays.
But yeah, maybe the ball, hit the ground one. To me. He's
more dangerous that way, and he's a more aggressive
decision-maker. His arm is still
towards the top of football as far as standing there in
the pocket and making throws and because of that. Yeah, he still
makes a lot of game changing plays. Just with his right arm
and his decision-making. I have
a page of notes here that
I saw your ranking.
I can watch some of the key games this year
and you've kind of answered these a little bit. I want to
make sure that they're framed and people understand, please,
do I think they're on, they're on people's mind. Yeah, they
both begin with why the first one? Why did he improved from
10? Last year, 28 this? Yeah. I think the big thing I looked at
more than anything is,
you know last year. And again, maybe this played into it.
I think early in the year.
He was like a little bit
pie in the politics learning the new wall. He said, play
the politics, you mean exactly. Like I mean like, He wasn't
going to make any dicey decisions because it might be
a blood back blamed on me. Yeah, and
I think what happened in my opinion, at least, as they got
hot at the end of the 2020 season, they won the Super Bowl
and now and we got guy like Bruce Arians and left, which
always prodding them and poke a come on. Push it down
the field. Hang in there. Make the big pie, we drew this up. You
like the play all week. Do it do it. I think the pressure of
wait, I'm on a new team that worked. I won the Super Bowl.
It kind of let him go a quitter. I'm taking my Best
Cuts here during this. Ballgame. I am and I'm going to
go and the thing I love about Brady
compared to maybe even years in New England
that I love is like to the politics point. He goes down
swinging now
to me like they're like the some of the games like we've
seen with the Saints or even the Rams playoff game. Yeah,
I think Brady for years ago crawls into a shell a little
bit and is like,
man, I threw three interceptions or I've thrown to
interception. I haven't played. Well, I'm gonna, you know,
just make sure We don't lose any more because of me and
I feel like, now he goes
that I'm going to throw my can heater. We're going to win this
game. I'm not gonna like just knocked a play to head. Not
have it blamed on me. I'm gonna bring us back and what had
happened in some of those games is lend itself to more
interceptions.
Sure, but I think there's other games we can look at and go.
Yeah, but if he had that old mindset, they don't know if
they come back against some of these teams. I don't know if
they make the Rams game clothes and all that, right? And that
to me is because yeah, Aryans the Round them. I think they've
given him confidence and I think honestly, he's become
a little bit more of a confident, Gunslinger type of liar, for
lack of a better way to saying his two seasons with the box.
I mean, basically he's thrown for
10,000 yards, which is amazing. Yeah, his completion
percentage, you talked about, he's more willing to to be
risky. He's still at 2/3. He's right. Yeah, 67% right.
Touchdown to interception ratio better than three, two, one.
So within all that he's more interceptions, but more
touchdowns. There you go. So there goes exactly right.
I feel like when I watch him, the the two things that stand And
out right now in his years, in Tampa, one. The conviction is
as good as anybody. So yes, he stand our line of scrimmage.
Cadence. Yes. He's
barking it out. But
he's got this. I know what you're doing. I know where
the balls right. Go. Give me the ball, right? He's got that
thing. No doubt in his talent to deliver. It.
Still is as good as it's ever been his effect on the team,
which is a huge part of my thing. His leader is real.
Yeah. It says maybe as big as anybody in football, right, you
know with what he can give during the week and gain
planning and everything.
Yeah, then to your top point, the On the field given the team
confidence. Hey, it's in Tom Brady's our quarterback with
a chance to win. Waiver plan, a crazy defense.
Well Brady, I'll figure it out.
It's like you're talking about. Yeah, and give us confidence
and get us in the right play, right? So his effect on
the football team, you know, and it's something that I took and
do more of a I think an account this year in my rankings and
maybe
years past.
There's another reason I would say maybe bumped him up
a spotter to. Yeah, just because I kind of readjust and my
thought on that to a degree as well. I feel like to the
the kind of box that he's playing in.
It's like if you can picture north to south kind of line of
scrimmage to 20 to 25 yards. Yeah, and like now
the full-length east west north south east west. He's playing
with with a bigger box of what he's looking at definites
receivers and tight ends.
Then he didn't doing agreed. He makes you defend more of
the field now than he used to write that. Then that to me is where
he's become more dangerous than the exact that, that was
the point. And I think that's the best way to say it.
Yeah, because again, I think, you know, yeah, New England.
They were a little more tactical
and I Maybe that's partly them, you know, influencing him,
but I do think, you know, for lack of a better way to say it
areas and left, which kind of took the shackles off a little
bit to where I can. Yeah, if you make a mistake, so what
role can we just came from? Jameis Winston?
We're used to mistakes. Right? Like we want some plays,
we didn't get you here to throw four yard Dink and dunk passes
to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, right? That mean they're
awesome. We want to throw 45-yard passes to Mike Evans
and Chris Godwin and he bought into that and he's changed that
way.
And, you know, you made all the points there,
you know, his end of the game. Clutch
ability is still may be as good as anybody in the sport. Yeah.
And so that's amazing. I used the phrase a lot. You know,
you've heard me say he goes down swinging, now.
He can do more with more.
That's the one they all come with Brady. But
and to why he's number eight and maybe not number three or
four. That's my next watch. Okay. Yeah, let's go there.
Right one because he can't do less more with less. That would
be my
I would argue that the guys that we have here in front.
Of them, you could put them on
lesser teams. And again, we're all on the same team here for
the sake of Chris Simms, top 40. Yeah, where I'd go.
Well, when we play those, some of those games where we're
a little over match or don't, you know, our scheme isn't as good
and we're not protect those guys are going to be able to
still make it happen a little bit more than Tom Brady. And as
you saw in some of the games, and I've made this point where
they lose this year, or the year before, it really comes
down to one thing with him, his only flaw.
Yeah. Is
Sure. Around him people around him. Yeah, you know, I you hear
me said this thing. Sighs is a skill. Hmm. When he's
comfortable and got in a rhythm and been protected early.
He will stand there and take some shots and throw the ball
over the and the sizes of skill. He can make plays again,
like that, Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray where there in
the pocket and people around them.
Brady can still make unbelievable throws down
the field where I'd go. Those guys can't do that to his capacity
because they just don't have the size the levers. The hand,
he does all of that. So he's really good.
But the issue now compared to maybe some of these other guys
are going to talk about and stuff is when
when it starts Harry from the start of the game,
New Orleans, both times this year, the Rams game in
the playoff game. It's hairy for a while and he might never settle
it and he made never really make a good throw
and then it starts to make his decisions bad too. And I know
all quarterbacks are going to be affected by pressure, but
I'm telling you the guys that are in front of Him, yeah, are
less affected and can still do more in some of those
situations than Brady and that's
why I think he's 8 and their seven ahead of them. I think to
accentuate that and I noticed the same thing. I'm sitting
here nodding my head to make it, make
it, make it even clearer.
Yeah, when it does get bad. It happened so quick it does. And
so abrupt, and he's jumpy. He goes from okay. That
the conviction, I talk to ya and the talent. Wash. Rinse,
repeat 18-yard out route. Yeah. I didn't rot just, it just
keeps coming and he kills you exactly. But the, the Moment.
It starts to collapse in the pocketable but he goes from
that's quarterback of ever. See ya.
This offense is going to score again today.
It sounds like it happens like that happens. Like it happens
like that, because it's all the sudden it's you know, you go
good people go back, watch the Washington, watch the New
Orleans games, watch them
and it goes into,
you know, going to get the ball out of my hand quickly and it's
just like, well, I know you were pressured the two plays
before that, but there was no pressure there. You didn't need
to throw the ball and watch the Philadelphia game where killed
him. He was
terrific. Most of the game. They had to stretch of three or
four series and I don't Works was her. Hurt, ya, the pocket
was caving in on them, but it is a split second words, like
this dude's in control. They might score 80 points to,
that's it. Yeah, they're done. And that's to me a little bit
of the, the only issue he has on his game and comes out of
it. He comes out of it. I know, but but those pockets of time
show up. They Joe up. And you know,
there was a part here where I thought about making him 9 &
press press, got eight because one of my things was is like
like Prescott on the Buccaneers versus the Rams and that game
if he On the right. There's they don't go down 2:33 there.
No, they don't he's not going to be as flustered early on by
the pressure. He's going to make a few plays within that
pressure
and settled the team down.
So that's where but ultimately, I thought man, Brady just more
consistently better and every other area to, where I put him
ahead of them. But yes, I think that is the thing
that you worry about and then, you know what people lose
translation. Yeah. I know. Hey, he's under pressure, and I know
it's never easy. But like I talked about it affects his
decision, making it affects his accuracy,
of course. He can't make plays outside the pocket so he can't
get out of trouble there. I got a doc him points for that.
I mean the guys were going to talk about here in a minute.
All can do those things. I'm sorry.
So that's new and then the I think the other thing that can
be a little Annoying or the - with this conversation with him
is that yes, even with that same thing. Okay. It's been
pressure.
Boom. All right, you stepped up, you moved in the right pot,
the bright spot in the pocket. Hey, there's Evans going across
the middle of the field for a 20-yard gain, you know, hang in
there and throw
But he's already moved on to the short-throw, even though
he's bought himself time with the pot, you know in the pocket
and made the right move. He doesn't given the chance now to
go. Wait. Let me. Look back down field. I got it again.
And that's not all the time,
you know, against some of the middle class and lower teams.
He doesn't. I'm talking about, it's just these games where
hey, the defense is a little more ferocious,
right? And it gets a little scary and Harry for a second.
Think about that, the Packers
and if C championship game, you know, the year before that. We
had a few moments of that as well. And of course, the It's
games that year as well. They're all the same thing and
it's, hey, it's hard. I don't know if he's gonna correct this
right now and his age. He's in a little bit of a preservation
mode and he's 45 years old. Nobody wants to get hit. I'm
42, and I don't want to get m41. I don't want to get it.
Let alone what I'm going to feel like when I'm 45, a couple
things to think about here. Yeah.
As we did before we move on from Tom things. He's without.
Okay. So Bruce Arians down to the sideline and more he moves
upstairs. OJ. Howard is gone. Antonio Brown is gone.
Yeah, both of his guards are gone.
You could argue and none of those are
Big a deal. But I mean as a group
it could affect him. Definitely. What do you think?
Definitely? I mean shock Mason. They trade it for him.
They need him to play. Well,
I do think Gronk will be back. I think that's inevitable.
Bring it up because I just figured at some point. I think
it's going to happen to I mean, I do
know God willing. Yeah, he's not going to be healthy right
away to start the year,
but still I think there's this is still one of the best teams
in football period. And I know, you know the offensive line
still big and overpowering in a lot of ways. You had the other
guard position. They got to figure
that out a little
little bit but you know with Evans Russell Gage was a really
quiet awesome signing by them and free agency,
you know, they will they may be be as explosive in the pass
game to start the year. Probably not, you know, they
need God when they get back and get going there. But I still
think this is going to be a dangerous offense,
and come on. Their defense has is the real deal. It's loaded.
I mean, there's there's not a position on their defense where
you don't look at and go that's towards the top of football.
You can't talk yourself into thinking they would be anything
but like near the top or
at the top in January when it all.
That's exactly right. They'll be there and I would be shocked
if there's the one of the most complete well-built football
teams in the game. And Brady is still playing awesome football.
So I would expect them. Yes to be right there when it's all
said and done there. It is flamethrower. There. It is. Out
of the Chute. Boom, Brady and Grady the goat.