Favorite Brady Game

bob burda

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It doesn't touch any of the playoff games, but I attended the 2002 game against the Bears in Champaign, IL where Chicago was up 27-6 midway through the third quarter and Brady engineered the comeback victory 33-30 so it has a spot in my heart in terms of his best regular-season games.
I love this game. It is early period Brady, but he was showing the same incredible poise from that 1st Super Bowl the year before. There is a YouTube video of it, and the pass he throws to Patten in back of the end zone after escaping pressure is just unreal in its perfection. I remember thinking to myself "OK, I think I get it now, this guy DOES this, it's how he rolls."
 

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It doesn't touch any of the playoff games, but I attended the 2002 game against the Bears in Champaign, IL where Chicago was up 27-6 midway through the third quarter and Brady engineered the comeback victory 33-30 so it has a spot in my heart in terms of his best regular-season games.
I was at that game too. Stadium mostly emptied on the “interception” that was then overturned and ruled an incomplete pass. My roommate, a big Bears fan, was partying in the parking lot postgame until around midnight when he found out they lost (neither one of us had cell phones then). I stayed until the end. Such a great game.
 

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I was at that game too. Stadium mostly emptied on the “interception” that was then overturned and ruled an incomplete pass. My roommate, a big Bears fan, was partying in the parking lot postgame until around midnight when he found out they lost (neither one of us had cell phones then). I stayed until the end. Such a great game.
I'm glad this game was mentioned, because it remains one of my favorites. The best part of the comeback was that the "overturned interception" was only an incomplete pass because Brady didn't give up after throwing the "pick", making an amazing effort to swat the ball out of the hands of the 6'4 304 lb behemoth Bryan "Big Dog" Robinson. Video here at 2:21:30.
 

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Beyond the playoffs, this game, not just for the butt fumble, but for how quickly this game went from close to over is one of my favorites. My brother's wife is a Jets fan. My mother was at their house for Thanksgiving. We were on the phone mocking my sister-in-law for most of the day.

It's not necessarily a Brady-led win, but his numbers were pretty good: 18-27, 323 3TD 0INT.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgAbkofIJIU
 

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Has to be Super Bowl 51. I will go to my grave knowing I never threw in the towel on that game. I knew that they weren’t going to go quietly into the night and that, when the game was over, they will had at least made it interesting if they didn’t come all the way back.

Super Bowl 51 catapulted Tom Brady from consensus GOAT to “you’re a delusional idiot if you’d take anyone else”.
 

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When they clinched it after the late Dion Lewis run, I punched my wall and shouted "TOM BRADY!" over and over. I scared the crap out of my family.
Never a better description of the awe and excitement he brought out in all of us so many times
 

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Has to be Super Bowl 51. I will go to my grave knowing I never threw in the towel on that game. I knew that they weren’t going to go quietly into the night and that, when the game was over, they will had at least made it interesting if they didn’t come all the way back.

Super Bowl 51 catapulted Tom Brady from consensus GOAT to “you’re a delusional idiot if you’d take anyone else”.
Well you had watched this game

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_sHN0y3pM
 

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As memorable as 51 was and so many other games, and so many of these games have some unparalleled feelings associated with them, I keep coming back to the snow bowl. I think I still vote for the Ravens divisional game but the snow bowl was a game the Pats simply didn’t win. I distinctly remember being down 13-3 and thinking “how can such a magical season end on such a whimper - they’re gonna lose at home and not even score a TD”. That 4th quarter and OT was nothing short of magical and it was just the beginning of an epic, never to be duplicated run. That was the start of everything and it was pure Brady magic.
 

Dick Drago

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Game for me is super bowl 51. But I’ll pick a moment I’ll remember from this past season-

4th quarter vs Chiefs. Obviously outclassed, but Pats Mounting a comeback, Brady goes back on 3rd down, but gets pressure and scrambles for a first down. Crowd goes nuts—Brady jumps up and does the 1st down motion. As if he can, by sheer will, lift this old and weakened offense to an unlikely win. His sheer passion and enthusiasm, every ounce of will trying to reach back in time and grasp the brilliance of offenses gone by.

Then a cut to Belichick—rather than his usual stoic demeanor , he is enthralled, smiling broadly, pumping fist and does the first down motion with the enthusiasm of TB!

It was a moment in time that captured the essence of Brady—yes, I’ll think of all his brilliance as a QB—but his enthusiasm, and passion is part of what made him such a treat. Snow Bowl spike, so excited, falling down as he celebrated. AFC championship vs KC—ripping off his helmet and jumping with unbridled joy.

He was a cold-blooded assassin. When the proverbial bullets flew and others panicked he thought more clearly, as if instantly calculating what sort of chances he should take. Vs Atlanta he went back under pressure, delivered throws that had to be absolutely perfect - a margin of error that he’d never risk in the 1st period. Calm and resolute he delivered with perfect precision.

But his exuberance, just like a fan—child-like enthusiasm in a close exciting game will always stick.