At Brady’s age, the drop off will be very fast when he starts to fall off. Look at Favre and Manning’s final seasons, it wasn’t a gradual process. They were top 5 QBs one year and the next year they were bottom 3 QBs. Yeah Brady’s in amazing shape now, but all it takes is a small injury like turf toe and his career could be over. That’s basically what happened with Manning.bjd5211 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:10 pmWe've been saying that for years, and yet Brady has still played better than him. Rodgers keeps getting hurt and underperforming, Brady keeps staying healthy and playing at a high level. Brady says he plans to stay until he's 45 and shows zero sign of slowing down yet. That will make Rodgers around 40 at that point, and you don't tend to get healthier/less injury prone as you age. I expect them to ultimately play for about the same number of years, with Brady still playing at a high level when he calls it quits and for Rodgers to be obviously done when he retires.
It’s like breaking a hip. If you’re 40 and do it, it’s a pain but you’ll recover but if you’re 85 and do it it’s practically a death sentence. Same thing with regards to injuries into your 40s in the NFL.
Also, the logic that Brady likes TEs and Rodgers doesn’t is way overblown imo. Jermichael Finley was producing like a top 5 TE before he got hurt and Jimmy Graham is not the elite talent he was a few years ago. Brady has has stud TEs to work with the past 8 years. Prior to Gronk/that other criminal TE being drafted in like 2010, people would’ve said Brady doesn’t like his TEs because he only threw to Welker and Moss.
These guys make do with the talent that’s available to them and Rodgers hasn’t had an elite TE for any significant duration of time.
It’s like saying that Kurt Warner loved throwing to RBs when in reality he just had an all-time great pass catching back in Marshall Faulk.