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Scot Loeffler talks about Tom Brady.... again
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:20 am
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:20 am
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:30 am to HailToTheChiz
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Scot Loeffler
Always confuse him with this guy
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:31 am to GenesChin
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By Andy Bitter | The Roanoke Times
He’s older now, with more recruiting responsibilities as National Signing Day nears, so Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler didn’t attend last night’s Super Bowl to watch his good friend Tom Brady play like he had several times before.
But he watched from afar and sweated it out just as he would have in person as Brady led the Patriots to a thrilling 28-24 win against the Seahawks in Glendale, Arizona, entering his name into serious discussion as the best quarterback to have ever played the game.
“The guy’s got ‘it.’ Period, end,” Loeffler said Monday. “People always ask me, are you shocked the way he’s made it? And I’d say no. The guy is remarkable.”
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Loeffler’s had as good of a seat as anyone for Brady’s remarkable career.
Three years Brady’s senior, Loeffler was just coming to grips with a chronic shoulder injury that cut short his playing career at Michigan when Brady arrived in Ann Arbor in the mid-’90s. Loeffler transitioned to a student coaching role when Brady’s career began to get off the ground.
Though the stories of Brady’s rags-to-riches rise with the Wolverines are overblown — he was a highly-regarded quarterback prospect coming out of high school in California — he did have to battle for everything he got at Michigan.
He waited as Brian Griese wrapped up his career with a co-national championship season in 1997, then fended off a challenge from wunderkind Drew Henson to start his final two years, needing to battle for his job even after winning the Big Ten as a junior.
“He’s one of these guys that is so far from complacent it’s unbelievable,” Loeffler said. “Always in the back of his mind, he thinks someone is going to take his job.”
While Loeffler said he was as nervous as he’s been in a while watching last night’s game, seeing Brady lead a rally from 10 points down is nothing new. Brady did it several times as a Wolverine, including a 14-point comeback in an Orange Bowl win against Alabama to cap his college career in 2000.
But that’s college. Did Loeffler envision this kind of NFL career coming?
“It doesn’t shock me at all that he’s the starting quarterback in the NFL,” Loeffler said. “It doesn’t shock me that he won the Super Bowl. To say back then that he would win four? Probably not. But it didn’t shock me that he’d make it. There’s no doubt. He’s just one of those special ones.”
Brady’s candidacy for “best ever” is sure to be nit-picked, particularly in the wake of the Deflate-gate controversy that’s consumed headlines the last few weeks, something Loeffler scoffed at, calling it “so irrelevant it’s unbelievable.”
But Brady’s credentials suggest he’s in the conversation. He’s the only quarterback to start six Super Bowls. His four wins in the big game are tied with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw for most among quarterbacks. And he tied his idol, Montana, with his third Super Bowl MVP trophy Sunday night after throwing for 328 yards and four touchdowns.
“I’m biased as all get out,” Loeffler said. “Every guy that I’ve had I think is the best. But in my opinion, there’s been a lot and lot of great quarterbacks, [and] it’d be pretty hard not to put him into that conversation for sure.”
At 37, Brady isn’t done either. Loeffler remembered Brady telling him last summer that he wanted to play as long as he could, that he loved the game too much to give it up anytime soon.
“It’s not a BS answer,” Loeffler said. “He loves it, and he’s doing everything from diet to sleep to exercise to stretching to when he trains, when he doesn’t lift — everything is built around how long he can play. …
“It’s just who he is. He won’t stay stagnant. I’ll guarantee he’ll let this Super Bowl settle in for a week, but he will be back grinding like you wouldn’t believe as soon as the next couple weeks end.”
Things are different from when Brady won his first Super Bowl. This time, Loeffler texted his friend congratulations, getting a text in response Monday afternoon. They’ll probably talk on the phone in a few weeks once everything settles down.
Back in 2002 after the Patriots upset the heavily-favored Rams in New Orleans, Loeffler was in attendance and at Brady’s side during a post-game party when he made an observation that was obvious to anyone but a 24-year-old, recently-named-Super Bowl MVP quarterback still in awe of what just happened.
“I go, ‘Tommy, your whole life has just changed,’” Loeffler said. “And he looks at me and goes, ‘Baloney.’ And I go, ‘Watch.’
“And it changed. It was unbelievable.”
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:42 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
This seems kind of sad to me.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:49 am to Pettifogger
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This seems kind of sad to me.
Might as well milk it until the cow runs dry...
Posted on 2/3/15 at 5:46 pm to GenesChin
Whar a dick rider. So glad my whole life doesn't revolve around who I knew back when I was coming up and therefore I am great.
Dammn SL, establish your own man cred soon or you will be call a girl!
Dammn SL, establish your own man cred soon or you will be call a girl!
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