Pats Nation surely let out one gigantic worried gasp when 42-year-old quarterback Tom Brady lunged forward and threw his body at Jets safety Jamal Adams early in the fourth quarter of last Sunday’s game.
New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels had called a reverse between Brady, Rex Burkhead, and Phillip Dorsett, a trick play that had New York’s defense moving right to counteract Burkhead while Dorsett came shooting left with the actual football in his hands. Brady somehow found himself (either through design or by accident) as the lead blocker for Dorsett on the play, and he didn’t seem to hesitate in laying out in front of Adams to help Dorsett gain some extra yardage.