The knock on Brady was that he’d lose patience with a guy too soon.
And that once his trust was gone, there was no getting it back.
Granted, Brady had plenty of receivers he bonded with.
Years later it was Randy Moss and Wes Welker.
Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola, Brandin Cooks and Chris Hogan.
But by Super Bowl LI, he became indispensable.
(Plus of course, Gronk.
But for the sake of this discussion, I’m going to stick to just the wide receivers.)
But each of the names on that list had a counterpoint.
An equal and opposite non-achiever.
The question of why the Bust Rate has always been so high at this position in this town.
“Perfect” being the operative word because Brady is, above all else, a perfectionist.
This is explains a whole heck of a lot.
With another 15.5% going to James White.
And there’s no coming back.
Which, the logic went, you were wasting talent and squandering a lot of opportunities.
But look at it from Brady’s point of view.
Imagine being the master of anything the way he was in the Patriots offensive system.
Now imagine having to explain it to someone who can’t grasp it.
That has to be incredibly frustrating.
For him, it was like Einstein trying to teach quantum physics to a Kindergarten class.
Immanuel Kant explainingThe Critique of Pure Reasonto his dog.
Newton readingPhilosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematicato a bunch of 17th century Irishmen.
