Brady only truly has 2 superbowls. The first it was all Bledsoe, he took them there did everything. Brady just won 1 game.

Myth 1: Bledsoe started 2 games in 2001 and was 0-2. With Brady starting, the Pats went 11-3. He replaced Brady in the AFC Championship game with the Patriots ahead 7-3. Bledsoe scored one offensive TD, Antwan Harris (Defense) scored and Vinatieri kicked a FG to end the game at 24-17. Brady won the Division game against the Raiders.

Brady came into an already superbowl team. STACKED with talent.. Almost too much talent.

Myth 2: The Patriots were 5-11 the previous year with Bill Belichick in his rookie year as head coach. The team was hamstrung by years of financial mismanagement where the owners were paying way too much for unproductive players and leaving good players unsigned. The team had a splintered locker room and an organization still adjusting to the end of the Dick Parcells era, the Pete Carroll debacle, and years of bad drafting.

Belichick and Brady made the team into a Super Bowl team, not Bledsoe. That’s not a knock against him either, as I am a big Bledsoe fan. The defense was great in that first Super Bowl too, but Brady (0 interceptions) led them down to get close enough for a FG to win it, and kept them in the game. He wasn’t just a plant, just a back-up fill-in, he was the true captain and leader of the team. Simple research would have told you that, or I recommend reading Patriot Reign by Michael Holley or any number of books that would give you a bit more detail on what went on that year than some guy calling into a radio program.

Instead Manning earned his way, made his teamates better, and he brought in talent. He made people want to play for him.

Myth 3: Brady kept the team together in spite of the quarterback controversy. (Bledsoe, too, was a complete class act, mentoring Brady and not running to the press to air his grievances losing his starting job.) Brady was the true leader of the Patriots in every sense of the word, and showed it by being the first one in in the mornings, the last one to leave at night, a film rat, and the hardest worker in the locker room. He earned the respect of the veterans early on by his all-out play, even when it was just leading the scout team. For you to insinuate that somehow he was plopped into a ready-made super bowl team just shows that you don’t know the facts. The team bought into Brady, and he didn’t let them down – under pressure, in the snow, in hostile Pittsburgh, or when it counted most in New Orleans.

The silence on the radio was ignorance talking, not a reaction to brilliance.

Because the years in which Brady made the SB, except 2007, his team was one of the top 5 defenses in the country in virtually every category. On top of which, despite Brady’s average offensive weapons, he is one of the best game managers ever at the QB position.

Essentially, he’s Brad Johnson/Trent Dilfer playing behind a great defense and an average offense…

Only difference here is that Brady is 10 times better than those guys…..

And before you say Brady was more important to the Patriots than the defense was, perhaps you should do your homework :)