The Patriots should be better without Tom Brady

Tom Brady has started 283 Patriots games since stealing Drew Bledsoe's job in 2001. That's irrelevant now as The Patriots will have a new full time starter in 2020.

There are many inside the organization that believe the Patriots offensive will improve without Brady. Stidham is mobile and can avoid the rush a little better to extend plays. None of the Patriots quarterbacks will have an issue being a run first team.

While Brady's intelligence is far superior to the guys on the roster, it's his head that makes his replacement better. Anyone who follows the Patriots knows this but Listen to Chris Fauria on the subject 

“This offense is not going to be able to move forward with Brady as the quarterback, not because he sucks. Those throwaways were important. It’s because he wasn’t willing to adapt. There’s the difference. He wasn’t willing to let N’Keal Harry grow.”

It's not just Harry, It's Meyers, Gunner, Hastings, Keene, Izzo, Asiasi and ect. Brady doesn't want to play with rookies. He doesn't want to work with young receivers. Brady wants the team to sacrifice money else where to make the team 100% relying on his arm, and to be stocked with high priced veterans. 

Look around the Sports world from Max Kellerman to Mike Reiss, to Doug Kyed to Joe Smoe and you'll see majority of Patriots writers will agree on that.

If you look at 2019 Brady forced the ball to Edelman and Sanu. He complained about having to work with the younger guys. How many of the guys did he hinder the development of? How many guys did Brady kill the analytics of.

According to Ray Rauth of Clutch Points News, Tom Brady was seeing ghosts in 2019. What I saw was Tom Brady throwing behind his pass catchers. Brady putting the ball to low or out of reach too many times. I called Brady out once in 2019 and got chewed out by the same people saying to hold Brady accountable.

Like Ray, I agree Brady has been in slow decline over the past two seasons. The quarterbacks on the Patriots roster are not as good as 2019 Brady but what about 2020 Brady? Even with his weapons on Tampa, there's no guarantee at how well he'll play.

There's also no guarantee how bad the Patriots quarterbacks will play. The most unpopular thing I have said is that I believe if Hoyer starts, he is a good enough game manager to do the same thing in New England that Trent Dilfer did in Baltimore. Manage his way to a Lombardi. 

That's not to knock Stidham. The Patriots wanted to sit Stidham and if he does sit, he will be the starter in 2021. I am not going to talk about Stidham's college career but he already sat an practiced a year behind Brady with the first string offense.

That is why the Patriots are better with Tom Brady. It's a hard pill to swallow. It's a cold reality. It's 2020 and we're still waiting for permission to move on to the preseason.