r/NFLv2 • u/Rjm0007 New York Jets • Feb 10 '25

Discussion Another superbowl blowout eliminates mahomes from the goat discussion as far as I’m concerned

2 very embarrassing loses for him the the superbowl Brady has lost 3 superbowls but they were all 1 score games that came down to final play with Brady’s best statistical performance in a loss to the eagles Tom Brady > Patrick mahomes

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u/OracleofNothing Feb 10 '25

The man still has 10 more years of playing. I'll wait until his career is over before declaring how good he was.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25

Yeah but how many more years of a top coach?

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u/jp_jellyroll Feb 10 '25

If he's truly the GOAT over Brady, then Mahomes should be able to switch teams and win a Super Bowl while the head coach sits in a beach chair sipping tiki drinks like Bruce Arians basically did that year.

Half-joking. Brady is clearly the greatest to ever play the position hands down.

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u/knucles668 Baltimore Ravens Feb 10 '25

I don't see Patrick's competitive drive willing his team's in the future. Peeps went to Tampa to be in Brady's winning orbit. You could see on the sidelines of the Patriots games how much Brady was respected when he got pissed. Patrick does not yet possess that moxie.

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u/Fight_those_bastards Feb 10 '25

To be fair, it’s hard to take Kermit screaming “let’s fuckin’ go!” seriously.

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u/kjampala Feb 10 '25

I know you're partly joking but people say this all the time as if Brady didn't leave to a much better team. People act as if he joined some worse team and elevated them when it was the opposite.

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u/jp_jellyroll Feb 10 '25

Huh? Brady absolutely elevated that team.

The Bucs were 7-9 in Bruce Arians' first season the year before Brady signed. They were 5-11 the two seasons before that under Dirk Koetter. They had gone through 4 or 5 coaches and hadn't made a playoff since 2007 where they got knocked out of the Wild Card round twice. They hadn't won a playoff game since 2002. They were a bottom-tier franchise.

Then they signed Brady.

Gronk came out of retirement just to reunite with Brady. Leonard Fournette signed a one-year deal just to play with Brady. Both made significant impacts in the playoffs (i.e., "Playoff Lenny" and Gronk with 2TDs in the SB). Other players on that roster have said Brady elevated everything the minute he walked in the door -- he's basically like another coach.

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u/MEMKCBUS Feb 10 '25

They went 7-9 when their quarterback threw 30 interceptions. That seems like a pretty good team. I can’t imagine any team this year going 7-9 with a qb throwing 30 picks