{"id":34563,"date":"2017-12-01T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2017-12-01T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:15:01","slug":"tom-brady-dominating-the-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/12\/01\/tom-brady-dominating-the-buffalo-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Dominating the Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without making the playoffs this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> would extend their league leading playoff drought to 18 seasons. \u00a0The last time they made the playoffs was in 2000, one year before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BradTo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tom Brady<\/strong><\/a> took over as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> starting quarterback. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Brady took over as the quarterback for the Patriots, they have made the playoffs in all but two seasons. That\u2019s a total of 14 playoff appearances for Brady, in which he\u2019s played 34 games, winning 25 of them, five of which were Super Bowl\u2019s. \u00a0Since the NFL and AFL merger, the Bills have only made the playoffs 14 times total. They\u2019ve played in 29 playoff games, winning 14 of them, and appeared in four Super Bowl\u2019s, losing all four. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Tom Brady Dominating the Buffalo Bills<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To put Brady&#8217;s domination into perspective, he has made the playoffs as many times in his career as the Bills have as a franchise and won more playoff games than they have in their history. He\u2019s won more Super Bowl\u2019s than the Bills have played in. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady has started against the Bills in 29 games and he has an astounding 26-3 record in those games. Through those 29 games he has 66 passing touchdowns and two rushing.\u00a0 Brady has more passing touchdowns against the Bills in 29 games than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TaylTy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyrod Taylor<\/a><\/strong> has total touchdowns (63) starting for the Bills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady also has more wins against the Bills than Taylor\u2019s 20 total wins starting for the Bills. As a quick side note, Taylor has started 39 games for the Bills, 10 more than Brady has played against the Bills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take the domination a step past Taylor. Brady has more touchdowns against the Bills than any of their previous 16 starting quarterbacks have thrown for the Bills with the exception of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FitzRy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Fitzpatrick<\/a><\/strong>. The number 16 is significant because that\u2019s the amount of starting quarterback\u2019s the Bills have had since their drought started. He has more passing yards against the Bills than all of those quarterbacks have for the Bills aside from Fitzpatrick and Taylor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Brady\u2019s 29 games against the Bills, he has thrown enough passing touchdowns to be fifth on the Bills all-time passing list. If you take out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=KellJi00,KellJi02,KellJi01&amp;search=Jim+Kelly&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Kelly<\/a><\/strong>, it takes the next six leading passers for the Bills to combine for as many touchdowns as Brady has in his career. That\u2019s having combined to play 186 more games than Tom Brady has played in his career. Brady hasn\u2019t had a season with a losing record in his career. In that time span, Buffalo has only had a winning record four times. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brady has swept the Bills in 11 of his 14 seasons playing them. That\u2019s almost as if the Bills are starting with an automatic 0-2 record every year that Tom Brady is playing. Since 2007, only 10% of teams that have started 0-2 have made the playoffs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a win on Sunday, Brady would break yet another record. \u00a0He would have the most wins versus a single opponent in history with 27 against the Bills. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here in Buffalo, the day Brady retires is anxiously and avidly awaited. What was once a putrid hatred of number 12 has slowly started to turn into an irrefutable amount of respect for quite possibly the greatest football player to ever step on the field. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Image:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2tRqOAQrSJtzC9ah713GCg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/620423544\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2tRqOAQrSJtzC9ah713GCg',sig:'pPjkwMyrLWVrpzHrvW2_ykSfQNpQgH98MfuZO44Kj-I=',w:'594px',h:'398px',items:'620423544',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady Dominating: Brady has made the playoffs as many times as the Bills have as a franchise and won more playoff games than they have in their history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":34570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,54],"tags":[177,61,38,40,559,331,570],"class_list":["post-34563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-bills","category-editorials","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-football","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-ryan-fitzpatrick","tag-tom-brady","tag-tyrod-taylor"],"modified_by":"Alexander Haynes, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}