Tom Brady Uses His Feet to Get out Ahead of the 49ers and His MVP Pursuers

November 21, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As the rain came down, turning the field into green soot and the football into a brick, we saw two different, highly atypical versions of Tom Brady.
At different points in the game, Brady was simply off. Footballs sailed high (insert your Deflategate joke here) in ways we don't normally see. The weather was likely the main culprit, for sure. It was still just odd to see.
As the game wore on and the San Francisco 49ers continued to apply pressure, that other Brady emerged. When 49ers defenders would get close, Brady bounced and skipped in the pocket. He was...mobile.
Read that last line again. Brady was slippery and evasive, a conjurer, a scamperer.
"He's Brady Vick," joked Julian Edelman after the game, when asked about Brady's mobility.
The end result of these two Bradys was that Brady likely has—and has earned—a lead in the MVP race. But that race is tightening. It is tightening quickly.
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