Doug Gottlieb: “We have to at least at some point admit that 43 is not just a number, it’s an age, and that Tom Brady was an ‘average’ quarterback at best last year... Now you go a year later with a spectacular group of wide receivers, and he’s an average at best, maybe below average quarterback. He has the 5th most interceptions, 23rd in yards per attempt, 25th in completion percentage, and 16th in QBR. Those numbers are only slightly better than last year when he was 27th in completion percentage, 27th in yards per attempt, 19th in QBR, and 13th in TD passes… It doesn’t take away from how good he was in his prime, but in sports we shouldn’t be surprised that he had to go to a place where they kind of had to doll it up around him… We’ve gotten to this place where somehow late in a ‘most successful quarterback of our lifetime' career, we are not allowed to go ‘he’s just OK now'... If Philip Rivers can go from Hall of Famer to one of the 5 worst QBs, why can't Tom Brady go from the most successful quarterback of all time to average at best? Somehow this is blasphemy? Somehow this is saying something bad? It’s NOT… It’s okay to go ‘I don’t think he’s great anymore.' I’m not saying pull him, I’m not saying he stinks, but sometimes you’re going to have to work around the fact that sometimes he’s not what he used to be.” (Full Video Above)
Listen to Doug Gottlieb explain why he thinks it’s time we all admit that Tom Brady is not the player he used to be, and acknowledge that he’s not this ‘MVP candidate’ we once thought, but simply an ‘average at best’ quarterback.
Check out the video above as Gottlieb details why it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a 43-year-old would show this level of regression this quickly.
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