Most people consider the recently retired Tom Brady to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history, and it’s no wonder why.
He has seven Super Bowl championships, three regular season MVPs, and five Super Bowl MVPs to his name, among many other accomplishments.
What could have sealed his fate at best is his longevity.
To illustrate just how incredible Brady’s longevity was, analyst Doug Farrar pointed to the fact that he threw more touchdown passes in his 40s than he did in his 20s.
Tom Brady threw more touchdown passes at 40 than he did at 20. https://t.co/3fxaKfcOcU
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) June 26, 2023
Brady became an NFL starter in 2001, his second season, when he was 24 years old, and it was a Cinderella season for him as he led the New England Patriots to their first of six world championships.
Although he won three Super Bowls in his first four seasons as QB1, some felt he was not as good and was more of a “system quarterback” and a beneficiary of head coach Bill Belichick.
But as Brady got older, he got even better.
He didn’t win his first regular-season MVP award until the 2007 season when he was 30, and he set a career high for passing yards with 5,316 in 2021 when he was 44.
Brady owes his longevity to the “TB12 Method”, a system based on muscular flexibility that aims to reduce the risk of injury.
If anyone doubted he was the best ever, he proved it beyond a doubt when he led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl ring in 2020, his first season with them, at the age of 43.
Such productivity and success at that age is unheard of for a professional athlete.
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