Super Bowl 51: 5 reasons the New England Patriots will win
By Luke Sims
2) The Patriots have Tom Brady
All due respect to newly-minted league MVP Matt Ryan, but Tom Brady may be the best quarterback in Super Bowl 51. What Ryan did in 2016 was impressive, but what Brady has done in 2016 and every season before it is, simply put, amazing.
“Terrific Tom” is, at age 39, as good as he’s ever been. He can still sling it as far as all of the other, younger quarterbacks and he is still as precise as ever. Tack on his experience as a starting quarterback since 2001 and in the biggest games in sports and he is a formidable presence and a quarterback with arguably no equal.
Brady may not come out and throw for 400 yards and compete for Kurt Warner’s Super Bowl record, but he will put on a show. Few defenses have been able to compete with Brady when he is on point and he has looked incredibly sharp over the 2016 season. Taking four games off to start the season due to suspension may actually have helped keep him fresh over a longer period of time.
The biggest competition Brady is facing is Father Time and he won’t be on the field in Super Bowl 51. The Falcons will need to harass Brady a la the 2015 Denver Broncos if they hope to slow him down and, frankly, they don’t have a defense like Denver’s.