Are the Pats the same Pats?

Until they show other wise – abso-freaking-lutely

Brady looked good. He threw off this back foot on the INT, which some have said is a sign that he is not confident in stepping into his throw. But, I don’t buy it. Unfortunately, Brady is back.

I got to watch a lot of the Colts games last year, and I saw how Manning was after his surgery situation. It really did take him the first 1/3 of the season to get used to things. Now of course Manning didn’t have preseason which Brady does. But if what you say about not wanting to use his throwing leg – then that is something that will take a while for him to correct mentally. Which means we could be seeing more errant throws.

I can’t believe that anybody thought Brady wouldn’t be 100%. Peyton Manning came back without issue. Phil Rivers had a career year last year despite coming off knee surgery. Brady was aleady one of the couple least mobile QBs in the league, so I don’t know why Brady wouldn’t come back and instantly be the same player.

There’s no way that this offense can play like they did for most of the 2007 season. But they should be one of the couple best offenses in the league, if not the best offense and I’ll be surprised if the Pats win fewer than 13 games.

It irritates the hell out of me that people see Brady in the game and say “Oh, he’s back to form”. He looked like a shell of his former self IMO, I am not saying he looked horrible, but he looked average at best. The accurate touch was there, no doubt about it. The pass along the sideline to Moss that was incomplete was a perfect through (no pressure on TB at all) but there was pass interference on the play, and yes it was PI, even Samuel knew it, he just reached out and grabbed Moss’s arm as the ball came down. Brady mae a couple of other nice throws, once to C. Baker (when he was completely uncovered) on a blitz, and another to Baker for a TD (Baker beat the LB on the out-route, but the LB was wathcing the RB coming in to his zone and hesitated).

There was another throw that the announcers were talking about in which they said that Brady looked good on, but they were DEAD wrong. It was a playaction 15 yd dig route to Moss, who was shoe-stringed tackled by Q. Michell (or however the hell his name is spelled) or it would have been a big gain. But the throw was low and short and a little behind Moss, there was no pressure on Brady, he just simply does not have any leg strength, he is throwing the ball wholly with his arm, look at the pick as an example. By the time the end of the year rolls around, yeah Brady might have his confidence back, but his arm is going to be dead tired due to not having any strength in his legs. Just my obsevations and a little annoyance with the “Oh my God, it’s Tom Brady and every throw he makes is perfect” crap the people are saying. Brady looked good running the offense, he freakin’ should, he knows it so well. But he did not look good throwing the ball, I for one, hope it continues all year.

So a guy who hadn’t played in a year looked rusty? I don’t know that I’d call that news. Brady has at least as good of a chance of getting back to normal over the next three preseason games as Buffalo’s line has of becoming a cohesive unit.

and their pass protection looked lacking. i hope they are happy with peters, god knows hes gonna disappoint.