re: Patriots have to make a decision between Tom Brady and Jimmy G after 2017

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Some DE is going to catch Brady and body slam him OOF! and his shoulder will never be the same.

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It's something like this.

It's not that a player's strength or quickness changes dramatically in one year. It's that that fraction of loss of quickness or agility in the NFL now means that the DE gets there instead of missing you. He sacks you more often now, you accumulate injuries, and that's how players get brought down. The small decrease in quickness or speed now puts them squarely within reach of those that are trying to stop him.

It's a game of milliseconds. If you're on the wrong side of that you get broken down.