Quote:Question:  If Garapolo (sp?) were playing, how confident would we to beat them?

 

I think that answers the "talent" portion of the competition...

 

 

For me, If Garapolo starts, we win that game, no problem.  Thus, how much talent is on that team to begin with?

That's difficult to say.

 

Jimmy saw only limited action in the regular season last year. In that limited action, he looked decent.

 

This year in preseason and training camp he showed considerable improvement. It's difficult to take anything from preseason, but he did look pretty good and had good stats while playing with the 2nd and 3rd stringers (he didn't get to play with Edelman or Gronk at all.)

 

No question that Brady is the best and most valuable player on the team, and that without him we'd have a much harder time, but the game plan would be much different as well. I'm sure we'd run the ball more often and we wouldn't be going for it on 4th down at midfield with a lead like we did against Buffalo.

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