It’s a fair point, and one that can’t be quantitatively proven…, nor disproven. Yes, the ‘street cred’ that Tom Terrific brings is an instant “influence” to a team…, but let’s look back at TB’s run:

1) Wild Card, Washington was a bad team, a very, very, very bad team.

2) Divisional, Saints turned the ball over four times, all Tom Terrific did was not screw up the advantages the defense gave him.

3) Conference championship, Didn’t Brady toss three interceptions in that game? He was fortunate Bowle’s defense offset those three with two turnovers of their own.

4) Super Bowl? lol, That game was decided by an immobile Mahomes, due to his injuries. Mahomes is KC…, they won’t go anywhere without him being healthy. Not all teams are that QB dependent though. Heck, the Saints just went 8-1 sans our future first ballot HOF’er. With very average QB play in DB#9’s absences, iyam.

Saints are a good team, even without Drew Brees. My bias for younger players is obvious though, and it applies to Tom Brady, equally as much as it did to Mr Brees these past few years. After looking back and pouring over the possessions and stats for the TB 2021 playoff games, outside of the Washington game. It’s still my belief that Bowle’s defense was the deciding factor in their championship run.

Differences in how we view things my friend. If Tom Brady were to have gone to a very bad Carolina football team…, would they have won the SB? It’s my belief the answer is no, they wouldn’t have even made the playoffs. I see those intangible qualities that you are seeing also…, and there is substantial value in that leadership quality that TB brought to Tampa. I don’t discount it. It was important to TB’s successes, but Tom Terrific in Carolina…, or Washington, or most other clubs, would have been an abysmal failure, iyam.