New England Patriots: 3 Lesson learned vs. Steelers in Week 1 Win
2. Tom Brady is still Tom Brady
The second lesson that we learned with the New England Patriots blowing out the Pittsburgh Steelers in the opening Sunday Night Football game of the 2019 season is that Patriots veteran quarterback and future Hall-of-Famer Tom Brady is still one of the best to ever do it.
Brady kicked off his 20th professional season in the NFL on Sunday by toying with the Pittsburgh defense throughout the course of the entire game. In the win over the Steelers, Brady showed up once again on a big stage by completing 24 of his 36 pass attempts to compile a completion percentage of 66.7 percent and a quarterback rating of 88.9.
With his longest completion being a 58-yard pass, Brady tallied a total of 341 yards through the air, finishing with three touchdown passes while average 9.5 yards per completion.
Brady, who just turned 42 years old, doesn’t appear to have skipped a beat since leading his team to a Super Bowl victory in 2018, showing everyone around the NFL that age will not slow him down.
Brady is coming off of a season in 2018 where he appeared in all 16 regular season games for New England, compiling 4,355 yards on 375 completions, along with 29 touchdowns, 11 interceptions and an overall quarterback rating of 68.4.
The scariest thing when it comes to Brady and this Patriots offense is that when Antonio Brown gets acclimated within the rotation and gets onto the field for New England, that will likely mark the best overall talent that Brady has been surrounded by on the offensive end of the ball in the last handful of years.
Brady has always brought the best out of his teammates and often helping players around him take the next step in both their development and in their careers in general. But now that he has the type of high-caliber talent around him that he will have this year? Watch out.
Brady continued to do Brady-like things against Pittsburgh on Sunday night in the Week 1 blowout win at home, displaying to us all that age won’t slow him down and why he is arguably one of the best quarterbacks to ever play in the NFL.