In that smiling picture of Solomon below, if I squint just right, I can almost see Chris Rock.............and I love his comment about Brady's in game run (highlight in red below)!
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Solomon: Ol’ Tom Brady just looked old until it was way too late
Jerome Solomon , Houston Chronicle Dec. 1, 2019 Updated: Dec. 1, 2019 11:49 p.m.
Tom Brady is the greatest of all-time.
But he is close enough to the end that we all see it. All except him, that is.
He has said he wants to play until he is 45, but it is difficult to imagine he would want to go through three more years of this.
Sunday night, ol’ Tom Brady didn’t do what old Tom Brady would have done. Forget being the best of all-time. This Tom Brady wasn’t even the best quarterback on the field.
That nod goes to the Texans’ Deshaun Watson.
Wayward passes to receivers who couldn’t shake Texans defenders and facing near-constant pressure behind a shaky offensive line, Brady did not have much fun at NRG Stadium. By the time he willed the Patriots to three second-half touchdowns, it was too late.
Watson, on the other hand, had a ball in becoming the first Texans quarterback to beat Brady, as Houston walked off with a 28-22 win.
OK, technically, Matt Schaub did that with a win in 2009, but that was due to the Patriots’ generosity. Bill O’Brien was the quarterbacks coach for New England in a game in which Brady was replaced with Brian Hoyer for the final drive of each half.
Otherwise, the Texans had been 0-10 against the Patriots with a streak of eight straight losses.
That came to an end in large part because Brady didn’t look like himself. He looked old.
Football is a young man’s game.
The new age of quarterbacks is here. It features flash and dash, razzle and dazzle.
The Lamar Jacksons and Deshaun Watsons make plays Brady can only dream about. You have never seen Brady diving into the end zone after taking an option pitch on a trick play as Watson did Sunday to score the Texans’ fourth touchdown.
That’s not Brady’s forte. Never has been. His praying mantis-looking, 40-yard dash at the NFL combine is still played on blooper reels.
On Sunday, Brady did have one of the 10 runs of 13 or more yards he has had in his career. It took so long for him to cover that distance, NBC could have cut to a commercial during the sprint and gotten back before it was over.
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