COMMENTARY
Tom Brady has played 280 regular-season games in his transcendent NFL career. The Patriots’ 13-9 win over the Dallas Cowboys Sunday was in some ways one of his worst statistically.
Yet the first word that comes to mind when we think back on what we saw Sunday? Encouraging.
Brady ended Sunday with a stat line that looked like it should have belonged to one of his unaccomplished predecessors in Patriots history. He finished 17 of 37 for 190 yards and one touchdown pass. His 44.95 completion percentage was the fourth-worst of his career in a game in which he took the majority of snaps.