Do you still trust Tom Brady?

I dio I don't like what I saw last night.

I'll be the first to admit that, but when we talk about whether I trust him or not, I'm gonna go to somebody's body of work as opposed to you know what they've done in the immediate In the immediate moment, I'm not gonna be a prisoner of the moment when it comes to Tom Brady.

Certainly he was overthrowing receivers.

Certainly, that he's leading the league and incompletions with 20 plus yards.

I think he's got about 33 incompletions on the year.

We know that's not impressively, completely about 25% of his passes for 15 or 20 yards plus s.

So we get all of that.

We understand it.

And when you got Chris Godwin, Mike Evans Gronkowski on, of course, Braid.

And, of course, Antonio Brown, there is simply no excuse sport.

Tom Brady's got to get his act together because the losses that he has encouraged this season has been against top quality teams.

But what I would remind everybody is that he's supposed to have a veteran coach, Bruce Arians, that would ask him to stop throwing those damn things.

Why don't you throw some intermediate passes?

Why don't you run the damn football?

You've got Ronald Jones.

You've got Leonard Fournette.

Leonard Fournette is no slaps this bottom there for a reason.

Engage in some ball control, move the change.

Run the damn football, for crying out loud.

It's not just the receivers that are out there with your 43 year old quarterback.

It's those running backs as well.

Take some of that pressure off off Tom Brady.

And, Oh, by the way, I'm not gonna let the defense off the hook.

I know numbers wise, they're one of the top defense is in the league, led by Todd Bowles, who obviously is a stout defensive coordinator.

But two of the two of the days where they really, really wet the bed was when they got blown out by New Orleans.

And then last night again, no pressure on Jared golf whatsoever.

He sat back, took pictures called, this lady said, I'm coming.

What time you want dinner tonight?

Let's hang out afterwards, etcetera, etcetera.

I mean, there was just no pressure whatsoever.

I mean, he was standing back there taking pictures for crying out loud.

So I look at all of those things and I'm saying, This is the ultimate team sport, is it not?

It's football.

It's not just one side of the ball.

It's three sides of all special teams and defense.

It's offense.

It's also not just a quarterback.

It's your head coach.

It's your offensive coordinator.

Things about the third time this year.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Jeff Saturday is about the third time this year, at least, that we have looked at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and said schematically, We are not impressed with the game that's been called by Bruce Arians, environment left, which were not impressed.

And so somehow, some way they've got to get it together.

The question is, do you trust that Tom Brady will?

And I'm saying, even at 43 with these multitude of weapons, well, what I've seen him doing good moments this year.

I believe that when it's time he will show up, you're gonna have to show me differently until I see it.

I'm not gonna believe otherwise.

When we asked the question, Do you still trust Tom Brady?

We mean in the moment of truth, game on the line.

Here's the ball.

You got a minute left or something like that, you're gonna lead them down the field.

That's really what we're talking about because I have acknowledged Tom Brady can still play quarterback at his age.

It's remarkable.

And, yes, he has weapons all around him.

Whatever you want to say about Bruce Arians right now, Bruce Arians is a well respected and good NFL head coach, Right?

I know what saying Bruce Arian no good or people don't respect Bruce Areas.

He has a solid reputation.

So it look, Do you still trust Tom Brady?

They really needed a win last year in New England against Miami on the video in the last game week of the season, last game of the season.

They needed that win in Miami.

They could have a bye in the first round so they could have home field.

They lost to Miami.

They lost to the team.

They needed to be in their division.

How often does that happen to the Patriots on the last game of the in the last game of the season?

And you could say what you want.

Tom Brady didn't have weapons and etcetera, Etcetera.

Okay, He had a defense.

He had a great head coach.

So you can't point there.

You have to also look at Brady.

They didn't get it done, and Brady didn't get it done This year.

So far, there have been some critical games against.

Obviously there.

Chief divisional rivals.

They've lost them badly.

Second time, Um, against Chicago, Right?

Brady gets the ball back with Nick Foles hit that.

Hit that receiver for the first down when he needed to, they kick the field goal.

Oh, they left too much time for Tom Brady.

Oh, boy.

You gave Tom Brady the ball with time on the clock.

Here it comes.

No, it didn't.

He had tough throws to make its true, but he didn't make them.

And then he had a mental breakdown.

Now, do I trust Tom Brady to rebound to lead his team, to make sure they clean up the errors from the week before?

Yeah, I trust him in that way, but I think we're talking about more than that.

We're talking about the great Tom Brady.

Who?

Here it is the moment of truth.

Go get it done.

I haven't seen him do that in a while when they needed most.

And you know the reasons are obvious.

He's old now, and you can point to his head coach.

I mean, come on, you can't always point fingers.

Last year, he didn't have weapons in New England, but he had the greatest head coach of all time.

He had an elite defense and he had a system he knew extremely well in an offensive coordinator and all that.

This year, he has every weapon you could imagine.

You see Mike Evans after the catch yesterday, like the kind of like he has weapons he doesn't even know what to do with.

He has so many weapons and he has a defense.

Now we're pointing to the head coach.

No, Tom Brady, once upon a time, had a huge kind of advantage in decision making.

The league has caught up in that way, but as it's caught up, there are lots of quarterbacks who have who don't make bad decisions constantly anymore.

Right like that has gotten better in the league, and it's coincided with his physical deterioration just because of age he's not, and a league where quarterbacks could do much more now physically, so I don't think it's fair to today.

The day after that game, the way it ended to and by the way, it's not like it was a scoring fest.

27 24 is like a regular NFL score.

I don't think you could point to the defense, either.

I don't think it's fair today to point fingers at people other than Tom Brady.

First, I think it's I think it's Brady, and I don't trust him in those moments like I used to.

You know, when you think about Tom Brady and the opportunity he had last night.

Like you said to me, You know, under two minutes on the clock, you get the ball, you got a chance to go down, tie or win the game.

You know, what are the expectations?

I think as you look at it, he did not show what we've expected off Tom Brady, right to overthrow the break.

It wasn't even close, and I think the concern for me is and you know, I thought Stephen, I did a good job of bringing up the numbers, the offense and what's being asked of Tom Brady like, what are they what are they truly asking him to do?

And he's leading the league in completions of 20 yards and further and all those kinds of things, but it's because of what's being asked.

So his eyes are now taking him into much more dangerous throws than he would have tried to attempt in New England.