TFB was the number one ranked QB last week for his performance versus the Lions. Here’s FO’s breakdown:
For what it’s worth – and it’s not all that much – Brady finished the game with a perfect passer rating of 158.3, the second time in his career he’s had a “perfect game” by the NFL’s system. (The other game was predictably in 2007, when he went 21-of-25 against the Dolphins for 354 yards and six touchdowns.) DYAR agrees that it was the best game of the week, but recognizes that Brady wasn’t all that effective for a fair amount of the game. During the Patriots’ first five drives, Brady dropped back 19 times and picked up just 131 yards and seven first downs. Those drives only produced 10 points. On the Patriots’ final five meaningful drives, Brady had ten dropbacks, all of which were completed passes. He did a little more with them: 219 yards, three first downs, and four touchdowns. The Patriots scored five touchdowns on those five drives. While quarterback rating sees a first-half stretch by Brady with five completions in a row for a total of 24 yards (none of which gained a first down or came close) as positive, DYAR rightly sees them as negative, because they weren’t helping the Patriots produce points.