Titans Safety Has Perfect Explanation On Tom Brady’s Dominance And When It ‘Got Real’ Vs. QB

Tom Brady is the ultimate quarterback, and a Titans safety knows it best.

Brady has been considered the best of all time, and his rings say it all. The Patriots quarterback won six Super Bowls and still plays his best football.

Tennessee Titans safety Kevin Byard has confronted the Patriots and Brady in several occasions in his young career, and the first encounter was in 2018. Byard’s performance was brilliant, but Brady completed 35 of his 53 passes for 337 yards and three scores.

“That was my first time playing him, and they got him running out of the tunnel with the Jay-Z music, and it was like ‘Aw, man, this is real,’” Byard said on Bleacher Report’s “The Lefkoe Show” podcast. “And it’s funny because our defensive coordinator back then, Dick LeBeau, I think it was maybe Tom Brady’s eighth or ninth time playing against him and I think he probably went back to some old film back when they were playing the Steelers back in the day. It seems like he had our number every single time. It was almost like he knew exactly what we was gonna run — switching the run this way, screen this way, dump it off here, touchdown. It’s just like, aw man, here we go again.” 

The Patriots knew his team’s defensive scheme, and the Titans had zero chances against New England.

“He just has a way, he knows mismatches and he understands how to get running backs on a linebacker and get all these different things,” Byard said. 
Byard and his team were great in 2018, and TB12 had his worst game of the season in Week 10 against the Titans.
“We were able to get good success against him, we were able to confuse him a little bit, confuse the offensive line,” Byard said. “We got a couple of sacks on him, had him ducking a little bit last year.” 

Will the Titans have luck against the Patriots this year?

“I think they’ll still find a way,” Byard said. “Knowing Tom Brady, he won Super Bowls before Gronkowski. So I think he’ll find a way. I think they’ll retool their offense a little bit, and he always knows how to get those mismatches. If he’s gotta throw it to the running back 100 times, James White, if that’s what he has to do get the chains moving, I think he’ll do that.”