His deep strike to Mike Evans to help ice the game? It covered 29 air yards, and Brady lofted it just 2.24 seconds after the snap. His touchdown to Chris Godwin, which covered 22 air yards, needed just 2.60 seconds behind the line. Curran: What's the fallout in Foxboro after Caserio's departure?īrady's 27 air yards on his touchdown to Antonio Brown required just 2.81 seconds behind the line of scrimmage. That's two full yards more than Brady's league-leading air-yards-per-attempt figure for the season (9.4).
His air yards per attempt in the game, per Ben Baldwin of the Athletic, checked in at 11.4. But in that same span, according to Pro Football Focus, he was the third-quickest to throw (2.32 seconds to attempt).Īnd when you factor in how frequently down the field Brady was targeting his passes Saturday, you get a sense for just how impressive it was that he was dealing so quickly. Brady's patented lighting-quick processing married up with Bruce Arians' no-risk-it-no-biscuit attack resulted in a 31-point performance with 381 passing yards, 9.5 yards per Brady pass attempt and a 104.3 quarterback rating for the future Hall of Famer.īrady's recent play gets even more eye-opening when you dig into some of the numbers.Ĭoming into Saturday, Brady ranked first in the NFL in air yards per attempt through the second half of the season (9.7). That seemingly-incongruous style continued in Saturday night's Wild Card game, largely diffusing Washington's menacing pass-rush with quick strikes that traveled deep down the field. The 43-year-old has been the league's most frequent deep-ball thrower while simultaneously throwing quickly enough to rank among the fastest triggers in football. What Brady has done this season - particularly through the second half of the year as he and his new team hit their stride down the stretch - has been remarkable. But it was Brady who put up the performance of the year against one of the best defenses in football.
For three hours, a math major pursuing an engineering degree went nose to nose with Tom Brady and gave the Bucs all they could handle.
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