44 Best of its class: Brady before play-off

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Of course, Tom Brady knows how that works: win the Super Bowl for two years in series. In 2003 and 2004, TB12 has brought the NFL trophy (Vince Lombardi Trophy) with the New England Patriots, since then no team has successfully defended the championship. This season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have the opportunity and with Brady a quarterback, which is 18 years older than at that time at his third of now seven triumphs, but despite his 44 years one of the best seasons ever.

Not only in the opinion of his coach, he would therefore have to be awarded as the most valuable player of the season (MVP). For me, that is not even a narrow race, says Bruce Arians. I think if he does not, that would be a farce. But Aaron Rodgers is certainly with in the race for this title, the one-time champion has led the packers to a 13: 4-balance sheet and has been 37 touchdowns successful — in addition only four interceptions, Brady is twelve. The decision will be announced on 10 February.

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In front of the play-off duel with the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday (19 o'clock Me) Arians but definitely good arguments for his point of view. The Bus have cited by the most successful quarterback of the NFL history for the first time all 13 season games and after 14 years again their division. On a personal level, Brady in the main round has the best values ​​in Touchdowns (43), successful passports (485 is at the same time a new NFL record), passport attempts and thrown yards (5316) and is also the second quarterback to Drew Trees, which in more as a season passes thrown over at least 5000 yards.

Roethlisberger looks older, but is significantly younger

Patrick Mahomes by the Kansas City Chiefs, Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers or the two-time champion and visibly aged Ben Roethlisberger from the Pittsburgh Steelers have not been able to keep up. In particular, Mahomes still has time and in general assessment also the skills to crack some of Brady's records with the years — Big Ben is more of a good current comparative size to give the performance of Brady's a perspective.

Because: about five years the two professionals are apart in old age. Roethlisberger, the younger one mind, now looks like a bear on the way to the winter sleep, and he moves so (Deutsche Dating). His career is over after the next defeat, probably already on the weekend after the game in the clearly favored Chiefs around whose quarterback Mahomes.

The biggest brand of NFL

Brady, on the other hand, is worried about anyway and ever and has thrilled the fans worldwide in this season, among other things, with a sprint, at the end of which he has set a gross, for which every referee in football would have put him from the court without hesitation. Brady, that's how it works, just refuses to degrade his age accordingly.

The largest brand of NFL is simply continues — even with its mostly debris and unparalleled kind in public performances. The next game becomes the hardest of the season, he said after the end of the main round on the weekend. A typical Brady set.

First play-off-hurdle on the way to Los Angeles, where Super Bowl will be held in the impressive new Soft Stadium on February 13, the Eagles are now. In October, the Bus brought a hardened 28:22 here, Brady with two touchdown passports.

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