https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/10/30/mia-ne-grades-tom-brady-with-masterful-display/
– The Patriots entered this game with an ailing offensive line against a revved up defensive front, and their quarterback put on a masterful display of quick release football to blunt the Miami pass rush. While his offensive tackles, in particular, struggled to contain the rush, Tom Brady (+7.6) was quickly finding open receivers and using quick play action plays to exploit the Dolphins’ linebackers, collecting a passer rating of 149.7 on passes released in 2.5 seconds or less—155.8 on his nine pass attempts off of play action. If the Dolphins could have forced Brady to hold the ball a beat longer, they would have had him in trouble, but you could probably count the number of times they managed to do that on one hand.
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Patriots film review: When Brady sped things up, Dolphins D lost its edge
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151030/SPORTS/151039909/17686/SPORTS
After the Patriots game-opening drive on Thursday, the Patriots offense began to slow down.
The next four drives led to four punts. Tom Brady was just 3-for-8 on the Patriots’ third, fourth and fifth drives of the game.
After that, things drastically improved. Brady completed eight straight passes and finished 26-of-38 for 356 yards and four touchdowns. After punting four times in a row, Ryan Allen was only used twice more in the last two and half quarters.
So what changed?
For the Patriots, it was all about Brady’s lightning-quick release.
By the time Allen punted for the fourth time, Brady had already thrown 19 passes, completing 12 of those. He held the ball for three seconds or longer seven times. Over his next 19 passes, he only held the ball for three seconds or longer twice.
In the end, Brady averaged 2.35 seconds from snap to throw.
When he held the ball for three seconds or longer, Brady went 3-of-9 for 32 yards. When he got rid of the ball in less than two seconds, he went 15-of-17 for 167 yards and two touchdowns. When he threw the ball between 2 and 2.9 seconds, he went 8-of-12 for 157 yards and two touchdowns.
Brady kept the Dolphins’ defense on its heels by utilizing short passes – thrown under 15 yards in the air.
He went 23-for-32 for 280 yards and four touchdowns when throwing short. Brady did most of his work on the short left side of the field, going 13-for-17 for 132 yards and a touchdown. On short middle passes, he was 7-of-11 for 124 yards and three touchdowns.
By comparison, he finished 3-of-6 for 76 yards when throwing deep.
As you would expect, there was a correlation between pass protection and completions.
In eight of Brady’s 12 incomplete passes, he was pressured or hit.
Brady only had one poor throw of his 38 attempts – a pass that was too high for Scott Chandler. The other incompletions were result from a Rob Gronkowski drop, a pass interference by Jamar Taylor that the officials missed, and great pass coverage by the Dolphins.
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