These Animated Graphs of NFL QB Stats Chart Tom Brady’s Greatness in a Mesmerizing Way
If you’re like me, you prefer your learning delivered in a visual manner. Graphs and charts always manage to drive a point home much more effectively than words and numbers on a page. And these are a perfect case in point.
You want some perspective on what Tom Brady is accomplishing before our eyes? I give it to you in animated graphic form. It took a few seasons to break onto the bottom of these charts. Back when people wee still flogging this narrative that he was just a “caretaker” system quarterback. Then starting around 2010 or so, he starts blowing past the legends to the front of the pack like Secretariat, until he buries almost all of them.
It’s astonishing how fast he moves up the rankings. Graphing him is like graphing human technology over human history. How we went from horses and buggies for thousands of years, then it took less than 100 to go from the first airplane to the moon. From centuries of the printing press to decades between the first computer and the internet.
And the kicker is, none of these have been updated to include what he’s done this year. And will continue to do. He’s arelady lapped the field in wins and postseason wins. His assault on the yardage records and the touchdown records continues. And it’s only a matter of time before he owns them all.