For all the credit Brady gets and the attempts to dub him the greatest QB of all time, if you look at the Patriots last three seasons, he's more the goat than the hero.

Two years ago, he threw the key interception to Champ Bailey that sealed the Pats defeat to the Broncos in the Division Round.

Last year, he threw the key pick in the game at San Diego, that SHOULD have been the end to their season, but luckily, the Pats player stripped the SD player of the ball when he tried to run it back instead of just falling down and sealing the win for SD. In the AFC Championship game against Indy last year, he threw the key pick that ended the Pat's chances of driving for the winning score, thus eliminating the Pats.

This year, he couldn't avoid the rush, and even when he had time, he was often off target or couldn't connect with his receivers, thus costing them the SB win.

Before you jump all over me look at those facts. Then consider what yesterday really proved. When Tom Brady is under pressure, he's just an average to above average quarterback. By comparison Ben Roethlisberger, the NFL's SECOND BEST rated QB was sacked 47 times! and TB was sacked only 21 times. Also, of the top 10 rated QB's in the NFL, there are only 2 others who were subjected to more than 30 sacks, and both of those were over 10 rating pts behind Big Ben.

Bottom line is that while I think Tom Brady is an excellent QB, if you were to put him behind the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line this year, he would be lucky to have been an 8-8 quarterback. However, if you put Big Ben behind the Pats o-line yesterday, he would've most likely won that game by 10 pts because of his ability to scramble and make plays under pressure, skills at which Tom Brady is average.

The Pats 3 SB runs were the result of great and opportunistic defense, and some clutch quarterbacking and special teams, and some (tuck rule) incredbilly bad (tuck rule) officiating (illegal forward lateral), and who knows, maybe even some video help. Compare Brady's performance yesterday to Terry Bradshaw's great SB performances where he was often running for his life (in fact got knocked out of one SB as he was throwing the game sealing TD pass) or Joe Montana's scrambling and play making (a la "The Catch") and while Brady compares favorably in many ways, he doesn't have the "make something out of nothing" intangibles that those two guys had IMO.