Tavern talk: Fixing Brady’s problems

patspscyho -- having watched film on Brady for all games this season, I think you've identified the primary area that Brady must fix. He is not consistent and balanced with his feet. Pressure that affects his ability to step into a throw (pressure directed at his left leg) has been devastating to his accuracy. I think he missed two TD throws vs. the Broncos because of such pressure.

He's actually missed some of their easier reads. He's operating on assumptions and this is killing his true anticipation.

Part of the problem, IMO, is that they have changed some players there due to age or trade and it is shaping the awareness of their team as a whole. Some defensive players are gone, during the adjustment phase, the team has its stars trying to do more. Thus you see Brady out of his game.

If he settles into his game and plays great once again, that is excellence spectrum he commands. Brady is striving for perfection instead and he's getting ahead of his own real time ability.
Mike's quote to start the story the day before applies to Brady's present mindset.
He missed a MOFO read, because Dawkins was the player, he assumed Dawkins would read back when the guy is usually extremely aggressive. Maybe he was trying to anticipate that the defense would rotate behind Dawk and allow him to jump a route under, instead Dawk was frozen and Brady more or less froze with it.

The hardest thing to do is be confident in the easiest path when you are faced with a great challenge. That's where the fundamentals are sharpest as well, and he has had some fundamental issues with his mechanics.

Coupled with this is a series of setbacks to several players. Fred Taylor was running monstrously, but he lacks elusiveness and the hits took their toll on a faster timeline than he is accustomed. The overall run game is getting less effective and with it Watson's getting dinged up. Suddenly the line is teeing off on pash rush splits and your great point of attack blocker isn't always there to help command play action.

Wes and Randy could not find the groove and were getting hit more. The games that teams started rotating hard to Welker under to hit him early and wear him down were not anomalies, they are part of the trend against that route combo. The last two seasons he is starting to pay the price for the shallow series.

Randy also draws more doubles. The final option was once Gaffney, and the replacement name player has been a dud in Galloway. Yeah the last option does not see a lot of action but his reps must be effective, there's no timing there now, and there's less blocking as well. The sum of a player's efforts are greater than career stat lines, and the Pats are missing some of that in their peripheral players.

This is early in the year and the team still has a winning record. Their division no longer has easy chalk up wins in Miami and New York. That's twice a year you have to pay more to get past an opponent and it can carry over to the following week.

The team still needed Seymour, who can they add to make that kind of presence in the way they prepare and play? Players missing in how you prepare can affect the entire team mindset. Other players start leaving their own range of ability and try to play outside of their selves. There's no need to do it when you are great, be who you are.

When the team gets back into the

I'm not saying they won't have stretches in games where they click, I think they will, but not as consistently as they did then.