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

[FlyWf]

Assani, have you ever considered professional help? Allegedly plenty of people with Asperger's live full and functional lives.

[Toro]

Of course you're jumping the gun Assani, but way to put it out there. Everybody on the planet will be on the bandwagon by week 12.

[vixticator]

I think some of these marks are achievable. Mostly highest QB rating ever, IMO. The TD record is plausible but I give him less than 50% shot at it, maybe around 40%.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

he's off to an incredible start, but the odds that is goes as swimmingly in weeks 4-6 as 1-3 are pretty low.

he's only slightly ahead of where Manning was after 3 games in 2004:

9 TD's
1 INT
903 yards
rating of 120

and look at Peytons 4 game stretch in November 04:

19 td's
3 int
1035 yards
rating of 129

so it's not really unprecedented to have these kind of stats after 3 games. having them after 16 games would be.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

also, this is why DVOA should never be the end all argument when looking at individual players. Tom Brady is the same guy as he was last year, when he was 6th in DVOA. now I'm sure his dvoa would be best in the league, by a good margin. the difference is the talent around him.

[rafiki]

lol @ winning 16 games

[SL__72]

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also, this is why DVOA should never be the end all argument when looking at individual players. Tom Brady is the same guy as he was last year, when he was 6th in DVOA. now I'm sure his dvoa would be best in the league, by a good margin. the difference is the talent around him.

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Its even more deceptive when using it to judge running backs.

[tdarko]

Assani,

Kitna has 980 yards right now. He will end up with 5226 yards to break the record.

Chad Pennington's QB Rating is at 121.4. He too will break the record for QB rating.

Carson Palmer has 9 TD's right now. That means he will be one shy of the TD record.

Manning, McNabb, DelHomme, Roethlisberger, A. Smith, V. Young also have 1 Int this year and will tie Brady for the record...

But that record will be broken by J. Garcia and Garrard who all haven't thrown an Int and will set a new NFL standard of 0 Int's.

Roehtlisberger, Manning, Romo, and Favre are 3-0...tying Brady for the first QB's to win 16 games in a season...wait don't the Cowboys play the Packers and the Pat's and the Pat's play the etc. I dunno, oh well someone is doing dammitt!

Man, what a season for QB's this is going to be, just when I thought it was a league full of average ones!

[Jack of Arcades]

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also, this is why DVOA should never be the end all argument when looking at individual players. Tom Brady is the same guy as he was last year, when he was 6th in DVOA. now I'm sure his dvoa would be best in the league, by a good margin. the difference is the talent around him.

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Its even more deceptive when using it to judge running backs.

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Yep. And everyone who's ever written for Football Outsiders acknowledges that.

[TheNoodleMan]

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he's off to an incredible start, but the odds that is goes as swimmingly in weeks 4-6 as 1-3 are pretty low.

he's only slightly ahead of where Manning was after 3 games in 2004:

9 TD's
1 INT
903 yards
rating of 120

and look at Peytons 4 game stretch in November 04:

19 td's
3 int
1035 yards
rating of 129

so it's not really unprecedented to have these kind of stats after 3 games. having them after 16 games would be.

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The thanksgiving game at Detroit was particularly nasty. Manning threw 6 TDs before Sorgi came in with a minute left in the 4th quarter.

Also, lets not forget that Manning only played only 3 snaps in the last game of the '04 season. He likely would have put up 3-4 more TDs had he played since Denver was his bitch.