[steveo]

haha wow, the engine had Brady throwing for 47 TDs? Funny how funky that engine must be for that and for having the Saints get to the SB.

I like how the engine seems to have some insane Patriots bias programmed in because even based on ratings they do better than they should according to this simulated season.

The sad thing of course is that real life people actually think the Pats will somehow dominate this year and Brady will somehow put up stats that aside from one single year he never has and that no other player has done in "back to back" type years.

Peyton Manning has the best seasonal averages of any player in history and has been doing it for 11 seasons yet somehow Brady's single season (that wasn't even as good as Manning's best) means he will become a composite of every top QB and be putting up huge numbers.

I look forward to the real season where Brady probably goes back to throwing under 30 TDs (because you know, aside form 07 he NEVER HAS thrown for more than 28) and everyone can be shocked by that. People need to clue in that the 07 seasons by him and NE was a fluke and it won't happen again. They had one of the easiest schedules in history and were able to run up the score with it (the amount of stats padding Brady got to do late in 4th qtr blowouts is nuts) and they really should have been 12-4, or maybe 13-3 but got lucky at the end of games.

Amazing how after 2004 nobody was expecting Manning to follow up with 45+ TDs yet with Brady somehow it is now expected. Makes no sense at all since again, Manning had history before that of high stats and also the fact that he threw 49 TDs in 15 games (and only 497 passes. Brady needed 580+ for the 50) and set a rating record that I doubt will ever be touched.