Troy Brown Not Surprised By Tom Brady's High Level Of Play
BOSTON (CBS) -- For seven years of his 15-year career, Troy Brown had a front row seat for some of Tom Brady's best performances.
Brown knew the quarterback would still be playing at this point, and chances were even a 38-year-old Brady would still be playing at a high level.
"I'm more surprised that he looks better than ever. I figured he would still be playing, but just kind of hanging in the pocket and getting rid of the football when he has to get rid of it. But he's moving pretty well and is able to actually out-run a few people when he has to," Brown told 98.5 The Sports Hub's Zolak & Bertrand on Thursday. "He looks a whole lot better than I've seen him in a long time. He's moving so well, he's getting the ball out so fast and he has some zip on his passes."
Over the first two weeks, Brady has seven touchdowns and a league-high 754 passing yards. We knew Brady would come out firing given the tumultuous offseason, dealing with seven months of DeflateGate accusations and the resurfacing of 2007's Spygate scandal. Brown remembers how motivated the team was when Spygate broke after Week 1 in 2007, but says Brady is taking it out on the league in a much different way this time around.
Instead of killing teams with a couple of deep bombs to Randy Moss, Brady has gone out and performed surgery over the first two weeks.
"You can see that 'killer will' look in his eyes right now from what he went through the last seven months, and you could see that coming from a mile away," said Brown. "The way he's going about it, just dissecting these defenses with 10-11 play drives and just gashing them left and right, making the best decisions he can with the football, it's a different kind of mission he's on in a different style. That makes it even more impressive when you can annihilate the defense not with one big play down the field, but with 8-10 plays. That's more demoralizing to a defense when they can't figure out to stop you."
Brown also told Zo & Bertrand that he'd roll with Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski over Randy Moss and Wes Welker. Find out why:
