Soap Box

There is no doubt that Tom Brady will stand among the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game of professional football, in fact, he could even stand a couple of inches taller than anybody else who ever played the game in many people�s opinion.

However, there are eleven men on the field and it takes the coordination and precision of a well-oiled machine to engineer the caliber of incredible comeback the world witnessed in Super Bowl LI this past Sunday.

New England looked out of sync in the first half on both sides of the ball as the young, hungry Atlanta team sacked, disrupted and caused turnovers, actually making the team that sets the standard for excellence in the NFL look quite ordinary, and somewhat disgruntled, at the halftime break Tom Brady and the New England Patriots went into the locker down by 19 points, with the Falcons receiving the kickoff at the start of the second half.

A younger, less experienced team who had not been there and done that and walked off the field at halftime with a 19-point deficit with a team that wasn't clicking on all eight cylinders might have spent the halftime seeing no way their team was going to dig out of the hole they were in.

But not so the New England Patriots who approach a huge lead or a double-digit deficit like just another day at the office. When you look at the face of Coach Bill Belichick you can�t tell by his countenance whether his team is up, down or sideways, if he's just won the lottery or his dog has died.

He knows his team, knows their capabilities and although you can't tell it by looking at him, he knows that they're never out of a game as long as there's time on the clock and his players are still breathing.

It soon became apparent in the second half that a different team had shown up on New England�s side of the ball as the Pats defense came alive and Brady and the offense started putting points on the board.

The rest is Super Bowl history and another very long feather in the already festooned cap of Tom Brady and another Vince Lombardi Trophy and championship rings for the Pats.

Now being a Tennessee Titans fan, I am not exactly enamored with the Patriots as they have basically dominated play between them and the home boys and they have beat the snot out of just about every other team I've ever pulled for in the Belichick-Brady era.

But I will admit, as one who has watched professional football for over sixty years and remembers Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Peyton Manning, Joe Montana and the rest, I've never seen anybody better than Tom Brady.

It just seems that truly great quarterbacks have a sixth sense of timing and awareness of where every offensive and defensive player are on the football field and Brady has that in spades.

It also seems that they all have long careers, the ability to avoid serious, career ending injuries and as they mature in age they also mature in their understanding of the subtleties of the game,
develop a pin point passing accuracy, an uncanny knowledge of which receiver is going to be open and what hole can be opened up for his running backs.

Maturity, not just for Brady, but for most of New England�s football team - at least in my opinion - had a lot to do with the Pats win.

Experience teaches you to never quit, to find a way where there is no way and to reach down real deep and pull out that last little piece of courage you sometimes don't even realize you had.

Congratulations Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and all the players of the New England Patriots 2017 Super Bowl Champs.

But y�all just wait till next year.

GO TITANS!

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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