by Michael Severance

Created on: March 12, 2007   Last Updated: December 08, 2010

While not knowing the intitial finger-pointer of the Tom Brady/Joe Montana comparison, I imagine that my thinking on this subject is a lot closer to this mystery person than common football ponderers. It is the opinion of this author that this comparison can be made stats non-withstanding. Go ahead, throw the stats out the window, it has nothing to do with this conversation.

Let's start with the first time I ever saw Tom Brady. Drew Bledsoe took that vicious hit from Mo Lewis over on the sideline and suffered from internal bleeding, out for "X" amount of games (many). Slightly off the subject, I can remember the exact game I gave up on Drew Bledsoe, and it was WAY after the media-bashing on him started. I believe it was the prior season (2000) against the Chiefs where I watched Drew Bledsoe sleep through the first half of the game, and then at the end of the game he decides he wants to play the game, falls just short on a FG miss by Adam Vinatieri, and Patriot Nation of course bashes Adam. All I saw was a QB that put up remarkable numbers in the second half of a football game, so much that it was a good full game by any standard, and his team lost! So back to the subject, enter Tom Brady against the Jets in a competitive (but losing) situation.

Now we're six years removed from this regular season game whose only real signifigance known to the general population then was that it was a division rival, so some of the specifics of the game have been lost on me by now, such as who were the receivers dropping the ball, but what I saw was a kid come into the game and run what should have been a magnificent 2 minute drill for a win. I remember a long bomb thrown to a receiver from, say, maybe the Pats 40, to about the Pats 15 yard line, right on the numbers of the double covered receiver with separation of about a yard in front and back, and the receiver dropped the ball. Prior to this, I saw an open screen pass on the money dropped, and a wr pattern over the middle also on the numbers dropped. Were these receivers not expecting a pass? I say they weren't because when a play is called from the sideline to Drew Bledsoe, all he heard is "throw to this guy there." And when Drew Bledsoe made adjustments during a play, watch out, something really, really dumb was about to happen.

Anyhow, the next morning I wake up and head out on a long commute through Boston traffic from Massachusetts' North Shore, to it's South Shore. My employees, driving in my truck with me, start talking

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