Tom Brady will cede the title of the NFL’s best quarterback to the next generation when he’s good and ready.
And he’s nowhere close to it.
Brady won his seventh Super Bowl title Sunday night in what might be his most impressive performance yet. He’s 43, an age where his contemporaries are celebrating their gold Hall of Fame jackets, not new Super Bowl rings. He’s playing for a new team and in a new system with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and coach Bruce Arians.
And yet, he ran heir apparent Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs straight into the ground with a 31-9 victory. Kicked dirt in their face afterward, too.
OK, not actually. But he might as well have for as thorough a thrashing as the Old Man gave the NFL’s Next Big Thing. Brady won his fifth Super Bowl MVP, with three touchdowns – that weeping sound you hear came from New England as two of them went to Rob Gronkowski – and a near-perfect QB rating of 125.8, and Buccaneers defensive coordinator Todd Bowles forced Mahomes and the Chiefs into their worst game, well, ever.
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