Brady is Still the Best
Football sports betting fans know that if there was any doubt that Tom Brady was still the best QB in the league it most likely vanished after his superman performance on Monday night. In a game that the home team Patriots deserved to lose to by almost any account, Brady’s individual effort and an untimely fumble is all that prevented New England from opening the season 0-1.
Brady completed 39 of his 53 pass attempts for 378 yards and two TDs. His day was marred only by a spectacular one-handed interception that was run back for a TD by a Buffalo DE. It ranked right alongside Drew Brees and his six TDs as the best throwing games of week one football betting.
So now that that no one in sports betting doubts Brady, there is plenty to be paranoid about when it comes to New England’s defense. To gut out a 25-24 win over a solid team like the Giants or Steelers would be one thing. But to go down to the wire against the Buffalo Bills is quite another.
Not to take anything away from the new look Bills, but this team will be lucky to make the post-season. If the Pats are to be realistic Super Bowl contenders they can’t give up that many points to a mediocre offense.
Brady is good enough to get this team into the playoffs all by himself. He could find a way to win playing with the pot-bellied collection retires that the Pats paraded around as the 50-year anniversary team. But getting to the playoffs and winning in the playoffs are two different things. If this defense doesn’t improve the former seems like the likely destiny for the ’09 Pats football sports betting season.
