Tom Brady Has a Senior Moment in Loss to Bears

Tom Brady isn’t a  young man. In Football terms, he’s pretty much ancient. At 43 years old, there’s not many scenarios Tom hasn’t encountered. But Father Time stays undefeated.

With 1:13 to go Thursday night against the Chicago Bears and trailing 20-19 at Soldier Field, Tom Brady got the ball at their own 25-yard line. But on third-and-6, a pass sailed over the fingertips of trusted tight end Rob Gronkowski.

And on fourth-and-6, with 38 seconds to go, Brady failed to connect with tight end Cameron Brate, with safety DeAndre Houston-Carson draped all over Brate.

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After the last pass was ruled incomplete, and the Bears took over on downs, Brady flashed four fingers and appeared confused, before showing visible frustration when he got back to the sideline.

Brady went over to the bench and slammed his helmet repeatedly into the ground before jogging off the field as the Bears ran out the clock in victory.

Had he thought it was third down and not fourth down?

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Brady said his mind was solely focused on yardage.

“Yeah, you’re up against the clock and you’re up against the — I knew we had to gain a chunk, so I should have been thinking more first down instead of chunk in that situation,” said Brady, who has now dropped three consecutive prime-time contests dating to last season.

“I knew we needed a chunk and I was thinking about more yardage. It was just bad execution. We had a great opportunity there so … just didn’t execute when we needed to.”

In Brady’s 21-year career, he had orchestrated 59 game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime, the most by any NFL quarterback since the AFL merger. But this one slipped his mind.

Getting old sucks.

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