Source: sacramento.cbslocal.com --- Tuesday, January 31, 2017
By Danny Cox Super Bowl LI will have the New England Patriots taking on the Atlanta Falcons in a match-up of the two best teams from the 2016 NFL season. That is what happens every season, but teams achieve greatness in different ways – strong defense, incredible running back, amazing coaching. In the case of these two teams, it’s phenomenal passing offenses and two of the greatest signal-callers to ever play in the NFL. Taking away his rookie season and 2008, Brady has played in almost every single game of each year during his 17-year professional career. In 2001, he played in 15 of 16 games. This season, he missed the first four games of the season due to a suspension for the Deflategate debacle that dominated the headlines last year. Even with those four games missing from his 2016 regular season stats, Brady was still able to put himself right in the MVP race without any problem at all. Case in point: He set a single-season record for best touchdown-to-interception ratio after throwing 28 touchdowns and just two interceptions. Before this season, his career low for interceptions in a season where he played more than one game was back in 2010, when he threw only four. And 2016 marked the sixth regular season in which Brady had single-digit interceptions while playing 12 or more games. Believe it or not, he didn’t have a single-digit interception season in his first eight years in the league. That’s just a little more proof th ...
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