Tom Brady: The most overrated athlete of all time?

[Hurl Bruce]

I don't know who all follows Barry McCockiner. He's a Twitter troll who is pretty funny. However, he does have a legit crusade that is not a troll job. He believes with all his heart that Brady is the most overrated athlete of all time. I don't totally disagree.

 

[DeeThree]

No

 

[Benway]

He's the Kenny G of QB's?

 

[MediumBaller]

You can’t really luck your way into 7 super bowl titles. The biggest question mark of his career was whether the Pats’ success was primarily because of him or Belicheck, and he answered that by winning a super bowl in his first year away from NE at 43 years old.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Thread should've just been locked after @DeeThree 's response.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

He called Bill Russell a "shitty athlete." Jonah Hill is a shitty athlete. Bill Russell....

I wouldn't give that douchenozzle the clicks.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

Jon Niednagel, evaluator of sports talent, the guy who worked for Danny Ainge in Boston, and came up with the Brain Types theory I've mentioned here before -- was absolutely obsessed with writing large treatises on why Brady was the most overrated QB in history.

I can't tell you how many articles he had on BrainTypes.com through the years where he talked about this at length. You can even find some stuff on Google if you search Niednagel + Brady.

Anyway, he always said that Brady didn't possess the ideal QB Brain Type (whereas he said Peyton Manning did). And Niednagel always said that Brady succeeded only because he was in Belichick's system for so long.

I follow pro football only somewhat (it's a distant second favorite team sport of mine to basketball), but I wonder -- if Brady's success was only because of Belichick's system, as was Niednagel's emphasis -- then how did Brady win with the Bucs? Do the Bucs have a similar offensive scheme to the Patriots teams?

I've always found Brady rather annoying and don't have a dog in the fight. But I just remember Niednagel always went on about this for years when he wasn't criticizing liberals, ENTP Brain Types, and the current political climate, or when he wasn't going on about his own rare Brain Type being supposedly the only one to observe and analyze reality empirically, the most moral Brain Type, etc.

(I do buy into his Brain Types theory somewhat, but the man was often prideful and myopic about a number of topics.)

 

[col63onel]

Prior to 2016, yeah, he was overrated a bit. At that point I would’ve argued Peyton was better.

But he’s in a current 6 year (and counting stretch) that is one of the best stretches ever, and he’s doing that on top of what was already a HOF career.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Jon Niednagel, evaluator of sports talent, the guy who worked for Danny Ainge in Boston, and came up with the Brain Types theory I've mentioned here before -- was absolutely obsessed with writing large treatises on why Brady was the most overrated QB in history.

I can't tell you how many articles he had on BrainTypes.com through the years where he talked about this at length. You can even find some stuff on Google if you search Niednagel + Brady.

Anyway, he always said that Brady didn't possess the ideal QB Brain Type (whereas he said Peyton Manning did). And Niednagel always said that Brady succeeded only because he was in Belichick's system for so long.

I follow pro football only somewhat (it's a distant second favorite team sport of mine to basketball), but I wonder -- if Brady's success was only because of Belichick's system, as was Niednagel's emphasis -- then how did Brady win with the Bucs? Do the Bucs have a similar offensive scheme to the Patriots teams?

I've always found Brady rather annoying and don't have a dog in the fight. But I just remember Niednagel always went on about this for years when he wasn't criticizing liberals, ENTP Brain Types, and the current political climate, or when he wasn't going on about his own rare Brain Type being supposedly the only one to observe and analyze reality empirically, the most moral Brain Type, etc.

(I do buy into his Brain Types theory somewhat, but the man was often prideful and myopic about a number of topics.)

Easy. Niednagel was 100% wrong.