But, the announcers have been going crazy that "Tom Brady really turned it around the last four games of the season." This is when you can tell that they are either really ignorant of what is happening, or simply telling the narrative they want, rather than looking at facts. So, let's look at the reality of these last four games:
Game 1: a 26-14 win over the Vikings, who were 6-7 at the time.
Game 2: a 31-27 win over the Falcons who were 4-10.
Game 3: a 47-7 win over the Lions who were 5-10 and had already fired their coach (and this is the one they were going crazy over because he put up big numbers. It was the Lions, of course he put up big numbers!)
Game 4: a 44-27 win over the now 4-12 Falcons.
So that's four wins against four losing teams, with a combined record of 19-39. 20 games under .500. And even their "impressive" play-off win was against the Washington Non-Racist But Misogynistic Football Team, who had a record of 7-10. That's right, the hosting team in the playoffs had a losing record.
So, let's look at the rest of their schedule. The finished the season at 11-5. They had wins against only two teams that had winning records at the time they played them, the Packers and Raiders, and only the Packers finished with a winning record. The Raiders finished at 8-8. The combined record of the 11 teams they beat at the time they played them: 12-19. And some of those wins to terrible teams were a lot closer than they should have been.
Their five loses, however, were all to teams with winning records and all those teams made the playoffs. The combined record of the teams they lost to when they played them: 22-6.
Now I understand that you can only play who you are scheduled to play, and that you have to beat up on the bad teams. But, what you also have to do is beat the good teams, and other than the Packers, they didn't come close.
I believe that Brady is the GOAT, but let's stop talking about how great he did because he put up good numbers against division-2 NFL competition.
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