Brady not ready to compare 2015 Patriots to undefeated team

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By Mike Cole

Tom Brady takes everything day by day, so it probably shouldn’t surprise you that he’s not yet ready to compare this season’s New England Patriots teams to one of the all-time greats.

The Patriots stomped all over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, improving their record to 3-0 in the process. The Patriots’ hot start has some already wondering whether this club can match the 2007 team’s undefeated regular-season record.

Brady’s not ready to make that connection.

“I can’t understand that one quite yet,” Brady said Monday morning on WEEI Radio. “It’s like three games into the year. There’s so much football left. And there’s so many different things that can happen. Not even a quarter of the way through the season. It’s way too early to think about anything. We have so many quality opponents and teams that we’re playing especially on the road. You never know. Look at the teams that are 3-0 at this point. Like Atlanta, like Carolina, Arizona — there’s some teams that, OK, you wouldn’t really expect that. And look what they’re making of their season.”

The Patriots’ perfect start certainly is an upgrade from the 2-2 start to the 2014 season — a season that, of course, ended with a Super Bowl win — but Brady knows a lot can happen over the course of the next 13 games.

“As things shake out in late November and December you’re going to see what teams are made of,” the QB said on WEEI. “We’ve got a lot of football. Obviously it feels good to get off to a 3-0 start and to play well early in the season. I always think we get better as the season goes. So that’s why it’s important to get off to a good start. Last year we started 2-2, which was rough. We played really well the last 12 games to get us in a good position where we had the bye going into the playoffs. It’s good to get off to a good start and leave yourself some margin for error.

“We’ve got to play well, we’ve got to improve, we’ve go to focus on all the details. There’s no time to take the foot off the gas pedal. You prepare all offseason for 16 individual games and we’re only in the third one going into the fourth now. So there’s a lot of work ahead.”

It’s safe to say Brady will take whatever the team’s record is at the end of the season, as long as he gets what he couldn’t at the end of the 2007 season: another Super Bowl ring.

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