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The GOAT has had a rough go of it lately.
The Wall Street Journal ran a headline this week that “the Patriots have a Tom Brady problem,” and the stats clearly support it. The reigning Super Bowl champion has one of the worst passer ratings in the entire league over the past 10 games and his yards per attempt come in dead last.
Even Rodney Harrison, a decorated Patriot in his own right, said the writing’s on the wall. “The Patriots… have a lot of problems. They’re in trouble,” he told Mike Tirico in a podcast on Monday. “They’re very frustrated, and you can start to see that Tom Brady, he’s just not the same player.”
Obviously grappling with issues beyond Brady, the Pats have now lost three of their past five games after starting the season with an 8-0 record.
But don’t fret Brady fans. At 42, the three-time NFL MVP’s got a stellar resume to fall back on when his little football thing finally runs its course.
Brady once posted that piece of paper to his millions of Facebook FB, -0.25% followers, saying “really thought I was going to need this after the 5th round.”
Spoiler: He didn’t.
He was finally drafted with the 199th pick in the sixth round of the 2000 draft. But if he hadn’t been scooped up that late — who knows? — he might have ended up a Merrill Lynch broker, considering, as his resume shows, that he was “exposed to upper-level management and company strategy.”
What’s really next for Brady as his Hall-of-Fame career winds down? Like he said on a Boston radio show earlier this year, maybe he’ll become an architect in his next life, “because I love building houses.”
He’s certainly lived in some nice ones, if that helps:
