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(To be fair: bro does look mad.)Īnd Brady is just the most visible part of a perpetual motion machine that seems, at last, to be slowing down. He was picked off on his first pass in the home opener against the Cardinals, and twice in the loss against Seattle two weeks ago-once by Richard Sherman, who proceeded to taunt Brady on Twitter. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong.īrady hasn’t been the same since knee surgery in 2008 he moves more cautiously in the pocket, crumples more readily in the face of pressure. Competent, to a Patriots fan, is comparatively terrible. They’re losing close games against strong teams: The Seahawks, who beat them 24-23, had the top-ranked defense by yards allowed when they met the Ravens, who beat them 31-30, were starting a healthy Ray Lewis and running a surprisingly effective no-huddle offense. Though they’re the NFL’s top-ranked offense-even using Football Outsiders’ more complicated stats, they’re doing extremely well-the Patriots are failing by being merely competent. They want magic-dark magic in the form of Brady-and-Belichick-orchestrated blowouts. They don’t even want more Super Bowls, though surely that would help. He took the Patriots to the Super Bowl last year.īut Pats fans don’t want passing records. He’s thrown for over 42,000 yards and 312 touchdowns over the course of 13 years in the league. His lifetime passing rating is 96.4, the third-highest ever. In 2007 the Patriots went 16-0-which was and remains the only undefeated run since the NFL expanded the regular season to 16 games. In Brady’s first four years as the Patriots’ starting QB, he won three Super Bowls. In the years since, Pats fans have come to expect something extraordinary from their team in general, and from Brady specifically. A sixth-round pick in the 2000 NFL draft-he was 199th overall-Brady, who was so insecure after being forced to play backup at Michigan behind Scott Dreisbach and Brian Griese that he sought out a sports psychologist, began his rookie season as a fourth-string quarterback.Ī year later he was leading the Patriots to their first Super Bowl win after Drew Bledsoe suffered a sheared blood vessel in a brutal hit in the second game of the season. Tom Brady’s rise was more unexpected than you might assume given the prevalent narrative about the Pats’ success under his leadership and his ability to smolder. It’s hard to win.” Brady should know he’s largely responsible for the spoiling.

Maybe we just spoiled some people in the meantime because it’s hard to win, man. “We’ve been on the losing end of a one-point game, a one-point game and a two-point game, so it’s good to win a three-point game. That’s Tom Brady’s opinion: “They all count the same,” he said on the radio the next morning. The easy explanation is that Patriots fans are spoiled.

To a fan-and here I’m quoting a very unhappy friend of mine-that’s one point away from “peak losing efficiency.”

But across the Patriots’ three losses, they’ve only been outscored by a total of four points. True, being third this season means that you’re one of three teams in the conference above. “Something is not right,” despite the fact that the Patriots are leading their division, and are third overall in the AFC.

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“I’m not saying free Mallett or anything,” swears user Rico Guapo, “but … something is not right.” Of course, every team has a backup quarterback it’s the Patriots’ fans’ interest in Ryan Mallett that is surprising. Perhaps the most important piece of information to be gleaned from the irritatingly named “Blinded by the Lombardis” message board is that the Patriots have a backup quarterback. While the passion and vitriol on display don’t offer solid proof that anyone has actually named his daughter “Belichick,” after a few hours perusing recent threads, it suddenly doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility that someone, somewhere, is cutting the sleeves off Patriots-branded onesies. The Patriots-specific sections of the Boston Sports fan forum “Sons of Sam Horn” is no different.

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