The Official "Tom Brady re-writes the record books in 2007" Thread

[THAY3R]

Yea, but through 6 games against bad defenses.

I think the fact that we are talking about how awesome Brady is because he has been comparable to Manning after 6 games shows just how great Manning is.

[THAY3R]

Also note, that Favre, who has to deal with a similar winter as Brady does(I think, probably worse in Green Bay but better away games for GB), had 20 TD's after 6 games in 1996.

He finished with less than 40.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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I think the fact that we are talking about how awesome Brady is because he has been comparable to Manning after 6 games shows just how great Manning is.

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I didn't come here to bury Manning! I can't say that he's not an all-time great, b/c I think he is. but I think it's awfully close between him and Brady.

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Also note, that Favre, who has to deal with a similar winter as Brady does(I think, probably worse in Green Bay but better away games for GB), had 20 TD's after 6 games in 1996.

He finished with less than 40.

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yet another reason why you can't just look at the stats.

[SL__72]

For the first time in his career I would take Brady's supporting cast (just offense) over Manning's (and that is assuming Harrison/Addai/Maroney are healthy).

Their DVOA's are remarkably similar through 5 games.

Its important to note that Moss > all though, so you have to take that into account when viewing Brady's stats [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[bottomset]

well ARod finished with 80HR and 210RBIs that he was on pace for, no reason Brady won't slowdown even a little

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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For the first time in his career I would take Brady's supporting cast (just offense) over Manning's (and that is assuming Harrison/Addai/Maroney are healthy).

Their DVOA's are remarkably similar through 5 games.

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you also need to consider that this is the 1st year Brady has had with Moss, and with Stallworth, and with Welker. normally it takes a couple years to get on the same page / reach peak performance, so I'm not sure we've seen it yet. or we ever will, given the contract status of those guys.

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For the first time in his career I would take Brady's supporting cast (just offense) over Manning's (and that is assuming Harrison/Addai/Maroney are healthy).

Their DVOA's are remarkably similar through 5 games.

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you also need to consider that this is the 1st year Brady has had with Moss, and with Stallworth, and with Welker. normally it takes a couple years to get on the same page / reach peak performance, so I'm not sure we've seen it yet. or we ever will, given the contract status of those guys.

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probably won't hurt his stats that his team can actually stop the run unlike the colts, and thus Mannings is left on the sidelines

wasn't Indy near the bottom of # of possessions last year?

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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wasn't Indy near the bottom of # of possessions last year?

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yes, dead last last year.

when Manning threw 49 td's 1 team had less, but they were in the same ballpark as 4 other teams. one of which was New England, who had only 3 more drives than Indy in 2004, with a great defense. San Diego had 4 more drives, and that was with a good defense.

[LiveNow]

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Peyton is the best player in the league. Only an idiot would think otherwise, but I would expect nothing less from Assashiti.

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i didn't get past this. but this is the dumbest thing i've read all day. You sir, should go join an indy circle jerk.

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The best(or worse) part about the Brady vs Manning argument is that we will be making this claim for the next 40 years of our lives.