The Game Ball Thread: Wk 8 @ Buffalo

[Number45forever]

Getting to watch Brady play for your favorite team is an absolute pleasure every single week. He put on an absolute clinic yesterday. He looks out to destroy the league this year and it's absolutely fucking glorious.

 

[DJnVa]

Brady is:

1st in YPA
1st in completion %
11th in TD passes (in, you know, 4 games)
1st in QB rating (133.9)
1st in TD% (12.2% of his passes have gone for TDs)

 

[Al Zarilla]

Getting to watch Brady play for your favorite team is an absolute pleasure every single week. He put on an absolute clinic yesterday. He looks out to destroy the league this year and it's absolutely fucking glorious.

Going to watch my Redzone and other DVRd stuff today. Too early and off topic but question to Brian Billick on NFLN this morning is there anybody besides Brady he could mention for MVP right now, even though Brady has only played 4 games. He volunteered Matt Ryan and Ryan is 1-2 in passing yards, TD, QBR...Another guy I'd have to consider is Derek Carr.

Collins?

 

[dbn]

To be "that guy", I'll remind all that he's played defenses that are currently 30th*, 19th, 12th, and 13th in the league for points allowed per game. Now if he also dissects Seattle, Baltimore, and Denver: hand him the trophy.


* who were without Jamie Collins at the time (too soon?)

 

[simplyeric]

To be "that guy", I'll remind all that he's played defenses that are currently 30th*, 19th, 12th, and 13th in the league for points allowed per game. Now if he also dissects Seattle, Baltimore, and Denver: hand him the trophy.


* who were without Jamie Collins at the time (too soon?)

Do those number include the numbers that Brady put up against them?

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Down: Rowe, Collins (kind of invisible today, holding notwithstanding)...

Self-quoting. Forgive me...not very often I can even pretend I saw something accurately...

 

[dbn]

Do those number include the numbers that Brady put up against them?

Yes.

 

[simplyeric]

Yes.

I wonder where those numbers fall if you remove the Brady games.
League average: 23 ppg.

TB12: 41, 27, 35, 33
34 ppg.

So those 4 teams had their ppg numbers noticeably affected by the fact that they played v. Tom Brady.

 

[DJnVa]

From 538:

The Brady-led version of the 2016 Patriots is in the midst of the team’s 10th-best distinct1 four-game stretch since 2006.2 That’s based on how much more the Pats outscored their opponents than we’d expect an average NFL team to.