If Tom Brady played in the 1970s

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Brady wouldn't been protected back then like he was during his career, a defender would get near Brady knees and he would whine to the refs about it.

 

Maybe he would been great but no way he would played over 20 years!

 

Had Hollywood Henderson or Too Tall pile driven Brady like Terry got, he would have run away crying. If he survived……

 

I think he would have been crushed to smithereens

 

Exactly what i was going to say. There was no Brady rule, helmet protection, etc. Heck you could still clothesline a player who doesn't put their head down. And you dare would not throw to the middle of the field.

But yes, I'm with you, Tommy would have been crushed.

 

Yup, he conveniently missed the part where it's way more safe to throw over the middle and that's where Brady made his payday. Also, he would have been killed back then.

Not to mention the play stealing. They used to find out you were stealing plays and then just start just leveling your guys every play even away from the play. That's how they took care of those issues.

 

I mean....


If the likes of Joe "Turkey" Jones gotten a hold of him... oof.... not sure how he is going to complain to the refs about that. While that play against Terry Bradshaw was violent... such was the nature of the NFL at the time. QBs were being knocked out repeatedly until the NFL instituted major rule changes when it came towards roughing the passer. Mind you, the original Roughing the Passer rule was first instituted back in 1940 according to the Official NFL Rulebook though it has obviously undergone many revisions.


Overall, I strongly disagree that the likes of Brady would have been able to take the pounding of the 1970s. Furthermore, Brady's obsession with desiring a flag on just about every hit would make him a target from opposing defenses of that era; doubly so in the case of the Oakland Raiders. Truth be told... Tom Brady isn't the correct answer to this hypothetical anyhow.



Despite his flaws, Big Ben Roethlisberger remains the only Modern QB I could think of who could survive the 1970s. If anything.... Big Ben would have been a Bo Jackson Tecmo Bowl level Cheat Code. A 6'5 QB weighing 255lbs?!......







Good luck 1970s Pass Rushers... you will need it.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. If Brady would have gotten the Turkey Jones treatment his career would have been over if not his life. The Bleacher Report clown that wrote this article is probably some 25 year old intern that hasn't the slightest idea about how 1970's football was played.

 

Now that you say that, the only way that one is going to be an accredited writer for Bleacher Report is if the Author themselves is verified by BR. This Rob Goldberg that wrote this article is BR's "Breaking News Journalist". Never heard of such a title but that is what BR has him as. His other write ups from various sites include MSN, the LA Times, Fansided, Basketball RealGM, Newsbreak and others... to name a few (more can be found here). It is fair to say he is an experienced Sports Journalist...


However.. I do agree with you 100% that this article wrote by him is nothing but peak Recency Bias... full stop. Mind you, he is a "Breaking News Journalist"... sounds like a fancy way of saying "Click Bait" to me.

 

I looked up Rob Goldberg's age and he graduated HS in 2005 meaning he was born in 1987. So yeah his knowledge of the 70's NFL is only what he read and not on what he witnessed. Names like Jack Lambert, Lyle Alzado and Turkey Jones are only names out of a history book to him.

 

I agree … years got taken off of Troy Aikman and Steve Young’s career due to hits.

 

He still may have been a good QB but he certainly wouldn’t have played close to as many years.

 

Isn't no dang way Brady could handle these men.

I know brady faced some greats, like Ray Lewis. But there were a crap ton more in the 70s. And in the 70s they didn't have rules to protect QB.

So yeah, I'll actually say i don't see Brady having one ring. Dude literally cried so many times. While bradshaw literally played hurt.



PS.... F cliff Harris. But dude was still a great player.

 

We can talk about the toughness of the game on Brady etc.

I think equally important is how the dink and dunk offense wouldn’t have worked anywhere near as well, at least not before they changed the rules to stop Mel Blount.

 

Hence why I say that Brady is not the greatest. He was afforded the no touch Tommy rule and was part of an organization of cheating.

He would have been an also ran if he played in that era.

I agree with Ask that Ben would have fit the mold as a 70's signal caller.

 

If Tom Brady played in the 70's most of us wouldn't even know his name.

 

On a side note long before Brady may have been born Bradshaw was checked into a Hospital (Divine Providence)

For players like this they would check them in under a fake name made up from their initials

Terry Bradshaw was checked in as Tom Brady

 

Brady in the 70's.

A scene plays back in my mind:
The great Bart Starr drops back, Billy Ray Smith crashes through the line and plants a fist square in Starrs mouth (the single bar helmet)
And Starr drops like a sack of flour.

I also think of Decon Jones.
or Jack Lambert...

QB's back then weren't safe while they had the ball or after they got rid of it.

 

I agree, but You can't look at it that way, or we would have a lot of players that wouldn't be good. There are a whole bunch of so called great Wrs that wouldn't even been thought about ....including AB. You seen what happened against the Bengals....now think of that on most plays every game.

 

If Billy Ray Smith would have hit Brady like he hit Bart Starr they wouldn't have called for the stretcher, they would have called for the coroner.

 

I would have loved to see Brady after that Joe (Turkey) Jones hit like Bradshaw did, or take a forearm shiver from Ernie Holmes like Staubach did.

 

yes, click bait is more rampany now than ever. My YT feed gets bombarded with 'Steeler' named sites, all of them with computerized voices and headlines screaming for attention. I just ignore and trust the guys i know.

 

Jones for sure, but don't forget any of our front 4, Vikings, Too Tall, and a host of others.

 

Brady wouldve got broken in half, had he played in the 70’s. Brady wouldve got broken in half playing with Big Bens early offensive line!