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Is Tom Brady Finally Getting Old?
The numbers suggest a decline similar to Peyton Manning’s ...
Brady’s last five games of the 2017 regular season were uncharacteristically mediocre, despite New England going 4-1 in that span. Beginning in Week 13, Brady has posted a passer rating of 81.6, 17th best in the NFL, and his yards per attempt in that span were 6.95, 15th best in the league. He’s also been far worse in touchdowns to interceptions, going from 26-to-3 in his first 11 games to an unusual-for-him 6-to-5....
If we were to look at the half-empty glass, we can draw comparisons to the career arc of Brady’s former longtime nemesis, Peyton Manning. No, not the Manning we last saw in 2015, who somehow won a Super Bowl with play so poor that his league-leading defense was forced to overcome it. Brady’s 2017 season is actually eerily similar to the 2014 Manning, who was his typical dominant self for the first 11 games of the year before falling off a cliff that can be seen now only in hindsight.
Premature obits have been written for Brady before. There’s little reason to doubt New England based on what they’ve accomplished this century. But if Belichick and Brady are to get that unprecedented sixth ring, they will need Brady to look more like what he’s been and less like what he is: a 40-year-old quarterback.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...espn:nfl:teams
FWIW I recall late 2014 season Peyton and even I could see he was falling apart - until Bell was injured in the last regular season game I was confident the Steelers would beat Denver in the playoffs (which the Colts did) and play New England in the AFC champuinship.
Brady has not appeared, at least to me, to have declined as obviously as Peyton did after Thanksgiving 2014.