tom brady

Wow, some really interesting numbers in here, that aren’t necessarily all that positive for TFB which of course is rare. He was just .4 percent better than Mark Sanchez. Crazy huh?

Brady completely missed his mark – short, long or wide – on more than 17 percent of his passes last season, according to numbers compiled by Stats, Inc.

Here’s the only explanation I can come up with, an incompletion is better than an interception, right? I don’t think there’s any question that when a play is not there Brady will not try to force the pass.

It’s also worth pointing out, as the article does, how much the Pats didn’t have much success on passes more than 20 yards down the field last year either.

Put it all together and it’s still hard to see how it exactly comes out this way, but it’s something to monitor this year. However it does make me think that he was absolutely surgical in the middle of the field. Wish we could see how many, if any, of those passes were bad.

Great long football-centric interview, a must read. Here’s the part all us Pats fans want to hear…

Last year’s passing attack and how much the Patriots attacked the perimeter? “I think the strength of our team was between the numbers and that’s where a lot of the passes went. If they didn’t cover us outside, we threw it out there, but when you have Aaron [Hernandez] and Rob [Hernandez] and Wes [Welker] on the inside, you have three pretty good players. Now Deion [Branch] made plenty of catches for us out there, but in terms of the contributions made on the outside, that was kind of our guy. Now you have Donte’ Stallworth, and Jabar [Gaffney] and Brandon, and still have Deion. There are some guys out there where we can really take advantage of some matchups. If you cover us inside, we’re going to throw it outside. If you cover us outside, we’re going to throw it inside. If you want to play deep, we’re going to throw it short. I think that’s good offensive football.”