The year 2008 was a time when Brady surely had a fire lit under his seat. In a bid to return to glory following a devastating defeat to The G-Men madden coins, Brady wouldn't get to prove his star-studded roster was able to return to that promised country. He was struck by a first-half knee injury due to Chiefs player Bernard Pollard, and would go on to miss the entire season.

Naturally, the Madden team could not have foreseen this, so Brady continued to dominate the virtual game in the year even when Matt Cassel tried his best to keep the team on the right track in the real world. Brady had just 11 throws in that season, before being eliminated yet his stats Madden head-to-head were surely much more impressive as one game's only 99-rated players.

After a year of rehabilitation for his leg, Brady appeared to have earned his trust from Tiburon and EA The sporadic career-ruining injury hardly resulted in Brady's Madden rating dipping in any way. At an overall 97, he's still the best, even though 16-0 was out of reach for his current counterpart. The Patriots recorded a 10-6 record that year However, Brady's most recent Super Bowl victory was starting to disappear from his rear-view mirror.

Brady's 2010 campaign marked the beginning of the Gronk Era. The Patriots signed Rob Gronkowski, and Brady was a success. The small dip in his actual numbers in the previous year translated into a similar reduction of his Madden overall, but his career was about transform forever.

The new-look Patriots offense went on to inspire the league to identify or create dominating do-it-all tight ends such as Gronk However, most of these QB-TE teams today, 10 years later remain chasing the totals that Brady and Gronkowski put together buy Madden nfl 22 coins. In Madden the duo could not be stopped for a stretch of several years, too.